It’s official, we’re infested! Only New York City has more cases of bedbugs than Philadelphia, and they aren’t expected to go away anytime soon.
While you are probably in the clear, it’s nevertheless easy to become paranoid. Bedbugs, after all, can live 18 months without food, and aside from the prominent bitemarks they leave behind, are extremely hard to detect.
If this keeps up, we may soon find ourselves a bit like the characters from William Friedkin’s Bug, obsessively inspecting our mattresses and clothing drawers for these bloodsucking vermin. Whether or not they're actually there doesn't matter — just the thought of spooning with these creepy crawlies may be enough to make you tear your teeth out with a wrench.
Hopefully, unlike the people of Bug, you won't get to that point. But can you blame them? With one bug comes many others, and who knows where the eggs will end up (hopefully not where Michael Shannon thinks they will)?
It's a shame that Bug isn't playing now. With so many theaters being closed down due to bedbug infestations, the experience would be that much more authentic and terrifying.
