10 Creepiest, Yuckiest, Ickiest Bug Horror Movies
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Horror movies have a wide, potentially endless range of things that can be manipulated and shaped into terrifying objects, threats, and nightmares. Something that requires very little work on the part of a film/filmmaker to make creepy and disturbing, though, is our innate fear and disgust of bugs. It’s an easy jump from seeing them onscreen to imagining them crawling all over our skin, and horror movies know it.
For our look at the ten best examples of bug horror on the big screen, we decided on a single rule: we’re ignoring the fact that spiders aren’t actually bugs. I know, we’re terrible. It’s not like we went nuts with it, though, as spiders only headline two of the ten films. Three feature ants, three are about roaches, one squirts worms in your eyes, and one of them stars carnivorous slugs. Which reminds me, neither worms nor slugs are bugs either.
Anyway… for the duration of this post, let’s just remember that spiders — and worms and slugs — are “bugs.” Now please join me and the crew (Chris Coffel, Valerie Ettenhofer, Kieran Fisher, Brad Gullickson, Meg Shields, Anna Swanson, Jacob Trussell) as we point our magnifying glass towards ten of the best bug horror movies!
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Arachnophobia
1990, in 2 top lists Check -
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Phase IV
1974, in 1 top list Check -
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Slugs, muerte viscosa
1988 — a.k.a. Slugs, in 1 top list Check -
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Them!
1954, in 3 top lists Check -
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Kingdom of the Spiders
1977, in 0 top lists Check -
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Squirm
1976, in 1 top list Check -
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Mimic
1997, in 1 top list Check -
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The Nest
1988, in 0 top lists Check -
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Bug
1975, in 0 top lists Check -
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Empire of the Ants
1977, in 0 top lists Check
Last updated on Jun 17, 2023; source