Bite

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.

It started out REALLY good, like early 2000s body horror movie vibe. It was a nice over the top goofy movie. I will say the continuity errors were so frequent towards it kinda felt intentional and the acting from the main girl was pretty bad. It was like watching Kristen Stewart in twilight. Her “monster” transformation gave me a good laugh especially in the scene where she's hunting her MIL. Also I bet you the entire budget was used for orbees and cheese cloth.... Like guys be for real.... Besides having the “gross” and “revenge kill” aspect, there was no story AT ALL.Great elements in the movie but the overall execution felt rushed and sloppy story-wise. Couldnt help but like the movie IF you dont take it serious.

so this movie was suppose to make people sick when it was in the theaters.. was this back in 1989 or something? because its pretty easy watching and non scary or gross.. I ate queso dip and watched this movieI thought it was ok.. the idea is good but not fully developed.. most def not scary and not gross at all lots of stupid looking orbee stuff slooshing around some lonely woman's apt.. they are suppose to be eggs and apparently she hangs slimy burlap around her apt to create a nest of sime kind.. also to add to the sloosh slime ball eggs and damp dorkiness of her ugly apt - honestly its a fairly lame movie and not scary at all

Bite directed by Chris Archibald is a movie about a vacation turned nightmare because of a bug bite. Kasey, played wonderfully by Elma Begovic, goes on one last vacation before her upcoming wedding with her two best friends Jill and Kirsten. By chance or by bad luck, a local tells of a secret beach.Kasey returns to her home with a bug bite, which soon starts to ooze and fester. Her symptoms get worse.Archibald does a wonderful job creating visceral visuals, but it is his capturing abstract themes into a visual sequence that set his work apart from other horror movies.For example, we learn early that Kasey is struggling with her upcoming marriage. Most movies would have felt it sufficient after she says several lines about her reservations to her friends who console her. However, Archibald takes it up one notch, when he reinforces this motif later with a scene in which Kasey vomits mysterious ooze the way an expectant mother vomits from morning sickness. On another occasion, Archibald works Kasey's fear of motherhood into a dream sequence involving multiple births and a horrific miscarriage.The film-makers clearly strove for visceral, which they achieved. As is observed in so many articles and reviews of this movie, they may have been too successful: audience members have left or fainted or vomited while watching.Elma Begovic, who plays Kasey, does a wonderful job herself. She plays a believable bride-to-be, but she does an even better job playing whatever-it-is-she-becomes, granted I have never seen one of those, so I don't know how close she came. The layers of the character Kasey is not easy to capture, and Begovic deserves credit for a wonderful performance.If the strengths I point out above entice you, then, by all means, watch it. If you like wet, slippery surfaces and sticky slime, then this movie has all that, too. If you feel you might throw up, have a barf bag or two ready.

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".

Bite is a cross between David Cronenberg's The Fly and Contracted Phase 1, but unfortunately not as good as either. The effects are quite good, but it is nowhere near as gross or disturbing as the critic blurbs on the DVD would lead you to believe and I think that is part of the problem. The film has a lot of hype and creates expectations which is doesn't deliver. The directing, set (Kasey's flat) and acting (apart from the wooden male lead) are all good, but Bite lacks real impact as a horror movie.Overall, Bite is a film I would recommend watching once, but not one which will become a classic or warrants repeated viewing.

Just wasn't a good horror film with it never being clear why she doesn't just seek medical help, why her friend is such an awful person, etc...Nearly all of the film takes place within her flat, so presumably this was a low budget film, that can be fine but you need the plot to keep people interested and this one ran out of steam early on.

Young people on vacation and one of them get bit by something unknown. Metamorphosis ensues and disgusting scenes are to be expected. A well executed movie.

Gross movie but good