"Bug is not surprisingly being advertised as being "from the director of The Exorcist," which says almost as much about the lingering power of that 1973 horror classic as it does about the disappointing nature of Friedkin's career over the past three decades. The comparison is not just a marketing ploy, though, as Bug allows Friedkin to play on his strengths as a director--namely, managing actors in close quarters. For all the talk about pea soup and head-spinning in The Exorcist, that film was in many ways a chamber piece, with its issues of faith, religion, and the true nature of evil playing out largely within the tight confines of a little girl's bedroom. By the end of Bug, Agnes's motel room is as unrecognizable as Reagan's bedroom was, transformed from a place of ordinary existence into a realm of extraordinary degradation in which two people finding love and acceptance culminates into a literal inferno." - James Kendrick, Q Network Film Desk