Bug (2006)

William Friedkin of The Exorcist fame brings the creepy and crawly with his adaptation of Tony Award winner Tracy Letts' play of the same name, Bug (2006). The film tells the dark tale of Agnes White (Ashley Judd), a lonely bartender haunted by her tragic past who moves into a dirty, dilapidated motel in the boonies of Oklahoma. The paranoid server becomes romantically involved with Peter (Michael Shannon): a disturbed drifter recently discharged from the military. They begin to bone after Agnes has a run-in with an abusive ex (Harry Connick Jr.), but when he starts opening up to her, eventually Peter convinces Agnes that he was administered a “bug” as a secret military medical experiment while serving in the first Gulf War. He's convinced the government is after him, and that the motel room is infested with these super bugs that are crawling into his skin. Agnes eventually starts to believe his paranoid nonsense, and soon enough they're pulling teeth out, slicing into each other's skin, and doing all sorts of other nasty stuff to their bodies to deal with the phantom bugs. When a doctor (Brian F. O'Byrne) comes along claiming Peter's actually a crazy guy who escaped a mental institution and was never even in the military, but Peter tells her he's actually a government agent lying to her, it's up to Agnes to figure out exactly what's going on. Body horror might not give us the most erotic skin scenes, but there are a lot of body shots! After putting his bug in Ashley’s rug, Michael Shannon frantically jumps around the room, revealing multiple shots of shadowed skin. Also, towards the end of the film, while dousing himself in gasoline, we are given a darkly lit look at Michael crouched body. The constant teasing of skin will really bug you. But fear not, eventually we'll see his ass while he puts his undies back on. As the abusive-ex who was a master at sex, Harry Connick Jr. shows his muscular chest while getting out of a steamy shower. We're drawn to those handsome fellas like a moth to a flame watching Bug!