Bite (2015)

How sad is this?

As Good As It Gets

Absolutely the worst movie.

Absolutely brilliant

Terribly bad acting, especially the blond girl.. far too many orbeez so the 'special effects' are pretty poor. Storyline is rubbish other than the obviously unbelievable 'turning into a bug' thing'. The mother is law is ridiculous. Glad her face gets burnt off!

This is not a bad movie at all! Okay, it's The Fly all over again, but with a different approach: not the whole scientific mumbo jumbo, but just one simple bite of a never specified bug, that sets in motion the whole transition into... well, into what specific monster is not so clear, it could be into a human variation of an insect or into some sort of hatching-oven for thousands of tiny frogspawn-like insect-eggs. The main attraction of this movie is not so much the simple story-line, but without any doubt the abundant gore, the make-up department must have had a ball, it's all honest handmade craftsmanship and it looks fantastic! And I don't mean just the appearance of the main character but also the make-up of her apartment, that gradually turns into some sort of gruesome slimy and sticky and dripping insects lair. As I said: the story-line is a bit flimsy, notwithstanding the somewhat elaborate interpersonal complications that are brought-in, like a virginal relationship between the main character Casey and her boyfriend (virginal in 2015??? both seem to be grown-ups in their twenties!), a future mother-in-law out of hell and a jealous and conniving BFF. These extra story lines don't seem to add anything to the main premise (i.e. changing into a human insect due to a bugs bite) and actually lends the movie a kind of grey sixties atmosphere, enhanced by the setting in some kind of boarding-house. It's only the use of cell phones that reminds you it's all supposed to happen in the present day. As far as the acting is concerned, that's hardly of any importance in this kind of movie. Elma Begovic as Casey gives a chilling account of a slowly deteriorating nasty monster, but this is mainly due to her make-up. The others are barely adequate. So just go for the visual ride in this gory, slimy machine and you're sure to be rewarded!

A woman has a bachelorette vacation in the tropics with her friends and gets bit by an unknown insect. When she arrives back home she starts having different colour goops coming out of her wound. Slowly her whole body starts transforming into some kind of bug. The whole apartment becomes a sticky, goopy full of eggs kind of place.The effects in this one are awesome. The job on the apartment alone must of took a bit. The story is basically a newer version of The Fly but it is entertaining. One of her new talents she discovers is the ability to shoot an acid mist out of her mouth melting peoples faces and holes in her hands that secrete a deadly blue liquid.Not bad at all. You will feel like grabbing a can of Raid afterwards.

Allow me to say that I enjoyed this film right from the start - pretty girls, lots of fun in the sun, swimming in infested waters, extremely bad decisions by characters...it has it all! We know the story - girls go to Costa Rica, one is bitten by something, she comes home and changes into a nasty beasty. The make-up is great, the production design not bad and the acting better than most films in this genre. I only have two questions for the writers - Why does the fiancé not once question the disappearance of his mother whom he is meant to be so close to...and why would anyone even step over the threshold of that apartment when they see all those clingy cobweb things and the glistening eggs (that look like bubble bath capsules btw!), let alone go into the apartment and walk deeper and deeper into the dreadful stench and oozing slime? Apart from the above, this film isn't too bad and can hold its own in the B-grade body-horror film market.