The Millennium Bug (2011 film)

Summary

"What's bugging you?" Vicious hillbillies kidnap a family that has retreated to the mountains to escape the fall of civilization, but neither group is prepared for the monstrous nightmare that erupts from the bowels of the earth.

Details

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• Release Date: 2011
• Country/Language: USA, English
• Genres/Technical: Horror, Sci-Fi
• Setting: Cthulhu End Times
• Runtime: 1 hr 28 min
• Starring: John Charles Meyer, Jessica Postrozny, Christine Haeberman
• Director: Kenneth Cran
• Writer: Kenneth Cran
• Producer/Production Co: No CGI Films, The Squire Film Shoppe
• View Trailer: (link)
• IMDB Page: (link)

Ratings

MPAA Ratings

• Rated: not rated (equivalent to a PG-13 or R for Violence, Profanity, Adult Content, etc.)

Tentacle Ratings

A rough measure of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:

• SS___ (Two Tentacles: Barely Lovecraftian; vaguely similar in tone, could be a very loose adaptation)

I've not seen this, but would expect the apocalyptic millenarianism combined with the subterranean monster and hillbilly cult to be at least vaguely Lovecraftian.

Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.

Reviews

Review Links:

• Michael Allen at 28 Days Later Analysis (6.5/10) - (link)
• James Byron at Cinema Head Cheese - (link)
• Richard Scheib at The Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review (1/5 Stars) - (link)
• Frank Veenstra at BobaFett1138 - (link)

Synopsis (SPOILERS)

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Vicious hillbillies kidnap a family that has retreated to the mountains to escape the fall of civilization, but neither group is prepared for the monstrous nightmare that erupts from the bowels of the earth.

Notes

Comments, Trivia, Dedication

• The "millennium bug", or "Y2K bug", was a problem some computers manufactured before the year 2000 had with reading dates over 1999; it was expected that when the year 2000 came and/or went, computers would fail to turn over the date correctly, either freezing government and banking computers and the like, or restart them from a year earlier in the 20th century, potentially resulting in the collapse of governments, failure of banks, destruction of economies, rioting in the streets, etc., prompting survivalist groups to plan for their escape from cities to live off-grid in the wilderness to wait for society to rebuild itself. Most key computers affected by the bug were quietly and successfully updated before the end of the millennium, which came and went without trouble.

Associated Mythos Elements

• race: Human Cultists
• (TO_DO)