NekoHomey
Purely Joyful Movie!
PiraBit
if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.
Myron Clemons
A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
becki_rainbow
Terribly bad acting, especially the blond girl.. far too many orbeez so the 'special effects' are pretty poor. Storyline is rubbish other than the obviously unbelievable 'turning into a bug' thing'. The mother is law is ridiculous. Glad her face gets burnt off!
mattpionk
Bite was a fun, campy and compelling suspense horror in the same vein as The Fly and every other transformation film. The characters lean more to one dimensional but that's overshadowed by a good pace and great storytelling. What is absolutely mind blowing is the practical effects as our antagonist is slowly morphed into one of the more memorable creatures in recent memory. This film is a definite watch for any genre fan and may catch a few casual cinemaphiles off guard. I can't play it off as a top 5 of the year but if you have the chance, this is a must watch.Read this review and more at www.SlackJawPunks.com
Matthew De Beer
Allow me to say that I enjoyed this film right from the start - pretty girls, lots of fun in the sun, swimming in infested waters, extremely bad decisions by characters...it has it all! We know the story - girls go to Costa Rica, one is bitten by something, she comes home and changes into a nasty beasty. The make-up is great, the production design not bad and the acting better than most films in this genre. I only have two questions for the writers - Why does the fiancé not once question the disappearance of his mother whom he is meant to be so close to...and why would anyone even step over the threshold of that apartment when they see all those clingy cobweb things and the glistening eggs (that look like bubble bath capsules btw!), let alone go into the apartment and walk deeper and deeper into the dreadful stench and oozing slime? Apart from the above, this film isn't too bad and can hold its own in the B-grade body-horror film market.
myignisrules
Body horror. It's for people who love movies like Cronenberg's The Fly, or Carpenter's The Thing, it's the kind of horror that makes some people throw up or feel faint watching it. Now we have Bite. A POV shot horror about a girl on vacay with some friends. She gets bitten by what seems like any other insect, but when she returns home, s*&t gets real. Where this flick excels, is with its visual effects. Creators Black Fawn are true horror genre lovers and it shows, with Practical Effects being used for everything. The nest. The eggs. The way our heroine 'changes' . It's really well done and sometimes hard to watch. The negs. Well simply put, the effort is put into the effects, but the story and the acting is so-so. It's just all surface. By that I mean, The Fly was about people's fear of AIDS . The Thing is a movie that looks at isolation and paranoia. Bite is just a movie about a girl being bitten by an insect and turning into an insect herself. You could argue it represents her insecurities but I just don't by it. So check this one out, if Body Horror gets your gory juices flowing and I give Bite....
