With some trouble, I was able to watch a pirated version of Bug Crush online, and in the minutes after the film, I could feel nothing less then disturbed. The implied idea of being helplessly gang raped while on a narcotic substance is both terrifying and almost unimaginable. Worse still is that the narcotic is a massive worm from hell with LCD like properties. At first i thought the film might be about the fetish of Crushing Bugs for sexual arousal but boy I was wrong.
Personally I feel that the bugs represented hard drug use, most likely intravenous narcotics like morphine or heroin. Grant’s character seems to represent the depraved addict, forced to bandage his arm to hide the bite (or injection) sites which drip with puss. Despite the fact that heroin or morphine are not hallucinogenic drugs, i feel that the bites draw more attention to them then to a drug like LSD. The particular drug might be ambiguous but the fact remains that the film is a commentary on hard drug use, rape and sexuality. Not quite Hostile, but this film was yet another happy film selection.
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