Bite
While on her bachelorette party getaway, Casey, the bride to be, gets a seemingly harmless bite from an unknown insect. After returning home with cold feet, Casey tries to call off her wedding but before she's able to, she starts exhibiting insect like traits. Between her physical transformation and her wedding anxiety, Casey succumbs to her new instincts and begins creating a hive that not only houses her translucent eggs, but feeds on the flesh of others. As her transformation becomes complete, Casey discovers that everything can change with a single bite.
Why it matters
A visceral body horror that uses insect metamorphosis as a brutal metaphor for fear and transformation.
- Practical effects deliver grotesque, unsettling insectoid mutations that linger in memory.
- A twisted take on the "wedding horror" subgenre, blending anxiety about commitment with physical terror.
- Angela Bettis anchors the film with a performance that balances vulnerability and creeping menace.
- Fans of Cronenberg’s body horror and mid-2000s indie horror will find a raw, intimate atmosphere here.
Director
6 horror films in catalog
Cast
Horror DNA
Gore
71
Slow Burn
50
Psychological
43
Supernatural
0
Creature
91
Disturbing
100
Fun Factor
17
Cerebral
14
Survival
66
