

Your boyfriend says there are no bugs. Your skin says otherwise. Who do you trust?
Despite his boyfriend’s insistence to the contrary, Ethan has come to believe their home is slowly being overtaken by bugs. As his life spirals out of control, Ethan learns that there’s more than one way to be infested.
Acting
Ben Baur's unraveling is genuinely uncomfortable to witness
Direction
Varrati maximizes every second of 17 minutes
Sound
The bug noises will live in your walls forever

Director
Michael Varrati
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Varrati specifically crafted this as queer horror where the threat isn't the relationship itself but what's rotting inside it.
The 17-minute runtime mirrors how quickly gaslighting destabilizes someone's reality—there's no room to breathe.