Bugcrush (In Four Parts)

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(photo credit: Vince Valitutti)

Director Carter Smith (top-right, with actor Joe Anderson) is behind the forthcoming film adaptation of Scott Smith's terrific book The Ruins. If you've been here at MNPP within the past several months, you're probably aware how very much I'm looking forward to this film.

Anyway, I saw Carter Smith's first film, a short entitled Bugcrush, waaaaaay back in April of 2006 and wrote a little bit about it right here. I said at that time that I hoped Carter got to make more films because he showed "a really deft hand at creating an atmosphere of weirdness, and of unsettling sound"... and who'd have thought that a project as perfectly suited to those gifts as The Ruins would come his way immediately after? I got the gift, see.

Anyway times two, it appears that all of Bugcrush has made it's way onto YouTube. It's split into four parts - it runs just over 34 minutes - and really, really worth watching, so I'm going to post the entire thing right here for y'all to check out.

It is deeply unsettling, and NSFW, so be forewarned.
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Part One:
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Part Two:
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Part Three:
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Part Four:
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And remember, The Ruins opens on April 4th!
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