Bite [DVD]

When I told my friends about BITE they automatically assumed it was a werewolf or vampire flick but I assured them that it was much more gruesome. I LOVED this one. Not entirely original but a different take on the "transformation" sub-genre of horror. Just wait until you see the way she starts welcoming her new offspring. Not for the faint of heart or easily squeamish!!

Casey is on a wild bachelorette weekend with her friends when she is bitten by a mysterious underwater creature. After returning home, she begins to have second thoughts about her engagement, comes to fear she may be pregnant, and experiences a physical transformation. Her physical transformation parallels her growing guilt over her inability to tell her fiancé the truth. The movie has similarities to “the fly” and body horror films like Contracted and Thanatomorphose. The plot is somewhat predictable and the supporting characters are two-dimensional but Elma Begovic does a good job with the psychological effects of guilt and with the terror of her bodily transformation.

In watching this movie, I got just what I was expecting... A horror movie in which an innocent girl gets bitten by an insect and slowly turns into an insect, eventually eating and laying more insect eggs in her human friends! Yum!

Not that it really matters for this film, but be warned: SPOILERS THROUGHOUT.After her tropical bachelorette party, Casey (Elma Begovic; Bed of the Dead) returns with all sorts of baggage and bug bites. About to get married, she has not yet confessed that she doesn't want children, or that she lost her engagement ring, or that she might have slept with someone while blackout drunk in Costa Rica. I guess we're getting the moral early in this one: don't get drunk and have adulterous sex in Central America. But what's equally troubling is that, now home and away from the possibly parasite-infested waters, she discovers numerous sensitive red marks all over her body…and they are starting to secrete ooze…and she's pregnant!I had been waiting to see this movie for months--basically since a lot of reviews suggested this was one of the most disgusting movies ever. The pustules and super slimy sticky gooey ooze, the sounds they make when she pops them, the fact that she wakes up glazed in this super viscous ichor, she's vomiting this yellowish bile--yes, it's all pretty gross. It doesn't hold a candle to the execution of Drag Me to Hell (2009) or the slathered slime factor of BioSlime (2010), but it's effectively quite nasty! LOLWritten and directed by Chad Archibald, this movie is GROSS much as the filmfest reviews promised and gorehounds wanted. But it for me fails heavily in the storytelling, writing and (verbal) acting departments. Everything is far more over-explained or in-your-face than is necessary for us to get the point. And what is the point? Surely we didn't watch this to count Oscar Nomination predictions while watching this--that would make for a rather sobering drinking game.Well, this is a lot like having The Fly (1986) told through a female lens complete with a thousand-egg pregnancy. Casey gets slimier, twitchier, and goes full on Brundlefly when she projectile vomits acidic bile to melt her would-be future mother-in-law's face off. She peels off her fingernails, pulls out her hair in clumps, becomes increasingly animalistic; step by step she is following in Seth Brundle's footsteps paved by Jeff Goldblum and even has a Geena Davis pregnancy dream.Where it differs from The Fly (1986) is the maternal egg chamber. Her apartment is doused with layers of pearl-sized translucent slimy eggs (actually a lot like tree frog eggs) as if someone poured buckets of them over the tables, chairs, bed and even the walls. Then there's this web-like mesh draped across the walls and furniture as if harbingering a Species (1995) cocoon scene.Before we know it Casey transforms into a bubbly, dribbling mess of mucus-like oral secretions. As a gooey special effects admirer, I'm totally forgiving the bad acting and writing at this point because this director has an eye for sloppy sickness that I like. Like papier-mache she smears her muck all over the walls, pasting egg clutches throughout the insectoid lair to all but guarantee that when she moves out she won't see a dollar back on the lease deposit.Not since Drag Me to Hell (2009, Alison Lohman), Halloween (2007; Danielle Harris) or Deadgirl (2008; Jenny Spain) have I seen an actress endure so much to make scenes so awesomely gore-filled or weirdly intense. Great job, Elma Begovic! That's commitment! Not that Annette Wozniak, Denise Yuen, Lawrene Denkers and Jordan Gray didn't have their gore-slathered moments. But damn, Elma!We enjoy two gross sex scenes with people vomiting on each other and ruptured pustules (a la Cabin Fever), a dash of monstrous nudity, and the filthiest crusty creature lair since the host chamber in Aliens (1986). And remember the super fun "title shot" jump scares from The Cabin in the Woods (2012) and Drag Me to Hell (2009)? Yeah, there's some of that, too. This even features the best head stomp I've seen since Drive (2011).Halfway through this movie I went from maaaaybe regretting it (ok, really regretting it) to just plain loving every sloppy minute. It borrows heavily from our favorites and it knows exactly what it's doing. Without dabbling in necrophilia (Necromantik), ass-to-mouth (The Human Centipede) or cannibalism (Cannibal Holocaust), this is truly a notably disgusting movie and probably worth the hype. And despite the fact that I found most of the acting and writing to be poor, I am confident that this director (Chad Archibald) has many wonderfully gross places to go and special effects teams to see.

This movie is just bad, from top to bottom.I'll give you what little good news there is first. The makeup effects are pretty solid. Don't believe the hype that they made people throw up, that had to be total bologna. They aren't really that gross, it's mostly just people covered in slimy stuff of varying colors. Maybe puking the slimy stuff up. But they do deliver it in heaps.Now the bad.The acting is utterly horrible. I mean like some of the worst I've ever seen. Not a single actor in this movie should ever be put in any other movie again. Except maybe the old man neighbor, he was ok. The rest are unbelievably bad. They need to give up that dream, it isn't going to work out.The story, what little of it there is, is a total mess. Honestly, the movie probably would've been better without any story at all. If they would have kept it as simple as people go on vacation, someone gets a bug bite, and then crazy stuff happens, that would have been sufficient. Instead they try to explore the characters and their relationships. Partially due to the horrible acting mentioned above, but also do to amazingly poor writing and directing, the story is a big ole boring mess.Seriously, don't waste your money on this one. If you really need to see wait till it hits free streaming somewhere. Or better yet, don't ever watch it, almost anything else you could do would be a better use of 90 minutes.

if you like creepy scary movies where one get a strange type disease, this is for you, lots of goo n grossness

pleased

Is this the Age of Body Horror? Anyway my favorites are "Raw", for subtlety and resonance, and "Bite" for in-your-face manic drive.Here's the deal: Casey is an undecided twenty-something who's unsure she wants to marry yuppy, mother-dominated boyfriend, so to gain breathing-space she goes on a tropical holiday with two hard-as-nails girlfriends,where a strange bug bites her, and her life starts going downhill... as infection spreads she gradually turns into Bug Mother, death to anyone venturing into her apartment. Okay, enough story. What makes the film so good includes the intense portrayal of Casey going through her phases from insecure woman to Queen of Vengeance, and especially the bitter, ice-cold (future) mother-in-law... I was ashamed at the pleasure I felt at her gory demise. But above all, there's Casey's gradually metamorphosing apartment as the oversized salmon eggs in goop that she secretes, and webs of muck hanging from the ceiling (don't ask how they got there) overtake the place, and (with Casey's help) digest disgusted visitors. The only unsolved problem was finding appropriate dialog: "My god, what's going on here?" and "doctors can fix these things" don't quite grasp the scope of the problem. For a hellish descent into smothering orange mucus where corpses slip and slide around, should you ever have pined for such a thing, you can't beat "Bite".

J'ai aimé ce film pour son originalité mais je n'ai pas aimé ce film pour la fin. Je recommande ce film pour ceux qui aime les films d'horreur et surtout qui finissent mal.

Good quality dvd, unfortunately the film it’s self is disappointing.

Bought for my sister, she said she enjoyed the film, no problems, price, packaging, delivery all good.