Does anyone remember the name of this movie?

It was the first movie I saw in a theater. I believe there was some sort of earthquake and a fissure opened up in the earth.

These evil bugs crawled out. They could bite and they had what I remember as two electrode-type appendages on their rear end that would make sparks. I vividly remember a scene where one was on the earpiece of a phone, a woman picked up the phone, put it to her ear and was attacked by the bug.

This movie came out in the 70s. I saw it on a double feature with "Orca."

What is the name of this movie? I don't remember and this has been bugging (jk) me for years now.

Seriously

This movie scared the crap out of me when I was young.

i remember watching that. the detective had a big epiphany when he cracked open a beer can. he realized that the bugs must be highly pressurized since they came from below. he stabbed one with a sharp object and it exploded.

I looked it up.

It was actually a pretty good book. I was unaware of the movie connection.

--bkl

Plot Summary: An earthquake releases a strain of mutant cockroaches with the ability to start fires, which proceed to cause destructive chaos in a small town... (more)

User Comments: Mootant Bugs Spout Flames from their Butts!!! :=8O (more)

User Rating: 3.8/10 (177 votes)

Complete credited cast:
Bradford Dillman .... Prof. James Parmiter
Joanna Miles .... Carrie Parmiter
Richard Gilliland .... Gerald Metbaum
Jamie Smith-Jackson .... Norma Tacker
Alan Fudge .... Prof. Mark Ross
Jesse Vint .... Tom Tacker
Patricia McCormack .... Sylvia Ross
Brendan Dillon .... Charlie
Fred Downs .... Henry Tacker
James Greene .... Reverend Kern
Jim Poyner .... Kenny Tacker
Sam Jarvis .... Cabbie
Bard Stevens .... Security Guard
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Runtime: 99 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color
Sound Mix: Mono
Certification: Australia:M / Finland:(Banned) (1975) / Netherlands:18 / Norway:15 / Norway:18 (video rental version) / Sweden:15 / UK:15 / USA:PG

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Paul A. Presenza (moocowmoo@aol.com)
Wilmington, DE USA


Date: 15 May 2000
Summary: Mootant Bugs Spout Flames from their Butts!!! :=8O

Sheeeesh, cow did I ever survive those wretched 70's?? :=8/ Part old fashioned monster moovie, part then-popular disaster flick, "Bug" is a bungled, goofy flic which manages to avoid creating any kind of horror or tension. And it is a true 70's-fest, for those of you who enjoy that sort of thing. Yes, as you may already have gathered, the plot involves a swarm of mootant beetles which come to the surface following an earthquake, which then set about destroying a dusty little Cowifornian town by rubbing their little butts together to produce fires. Seriously. The bugs manage to burn down buildings, set wild fires, and ignite cars while people sit in them listening to Steely Dan and the Eagles(a fate they moost likely deserve...). The bugs are tough, armor-clad, and like to kill curious kitties. This makes the bugs far moore interesting then their 2 dimentional human cownterparts. Bradford Dillman("Escape from Planet of the Apes", "The Swarm", "Lords of the Deep"), Joanna Miles("The Ultimate Warrior", "Harvest Home", "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead"), and Alan Fudge("Galaxis", "Airport '75", many 70's tv shows) lead a non-cast of yawn-inducing b-actors trying to look cowcerned that the little critters are setting fire to the universe. Frenchy director Jeannot Szwarc worked in a ton of 70's tv shows, including "Columbo", "Kojak", "The Rockford Files", and "The Six Million Dollar Man". He also directed such bad 70's non-hits as "Jaws 2", "Supergirl: The Movie", and "Santa Claus: The Movie". Cowever, proving that even a blind hog will find an ear of corn every now and then, Szwarc also made "Somewhere in Time", the MooCow's favorite time-travel moovie: go figure. "Bug" was William Castle's swan song, after producing many, many schlock films of the 50's & 60's, including "The Tinger", "The House on Haunted Hill", and "13 Ghosts", as well as directing a whole slew of 40's B pictures. For those of you who simply moost immerse yerselves in everything that was 70's(and u know who you are, you freaks...), "Bug" is a cornucopia of cheesy 70's moosic, clothing, hair, and pop-culture. The MooCow says that the moore discriminating viewer might just want to send this silly stinker to the roach motel. :=8P
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I saw it on TV, and remember vividly when the one lady picked up a phone with a bug on the reciever, which quickly crawls into her hairsprayed bouffant hair, and sets it on fire.

I also remember being terrified by the ads for "It's Alive", which I was too young to go see. Of course when I got older and finally got to see it, I was pretty disappointed that it didn't live up to the scary ads...

There were a lot of freaky movies back then, Funny thing is, a lot of them were very imaginative, but the execution sucked, since the technology was not there. Now they've got all the technology, and no imagination, and no artfulness to express ideas in an interesting way.

That was pretty cool for a B-movie... had some awesome cockroaches in it!

Was pressurized in a US Navy Mark Five diving helmet which (Of course) is wide open at the bottom.

Boy that was a BAD movie right along with 'The Attack Of the Giant Leeches.'

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