Now, these creatures are harmless and normally I try to usher insect invaders back outside to start fresh lives free of human domesticity. But there’s something about these critters that just makes me… snap.
It’s easy to figure out why insects make many people’s skin crawl.
And we’re sure that you too have a sort of bug that makes you scream.
Horror movies have exploited our hard-wired entomological revulsion for almost a century, their physical representation adapting (like insects adapt) to the times and mirroring our innate cultural fear of “the other.”