The monster movie Guillermo del Toro calls “a great sci-fi thriller” and “the ‘Citizen Kane’ of giant insect films" is now ...

Lesser works by great directors needn’t diminish long-standing reputations, so calling Jan Švankmajer’s “Insect” a disappointment in no way weakens the master’s position as a key proponent of ...

After 36 years of showcasing towering mutant insects on the big screen, the Insect Fear Film Festival made a radical departure in its 37th year by highlighting monstrous crabs and lobsters rather than ...

One of the most deeply influential animators of the past many decades is Czech’s Jan Švankmajer. From his groundbreaking short Dimensions of Dialogue to features like Alice and Faust, his surrealist ...

Jon Tetlie, a doctoral candidate in the University of Illinois Department of Entomology, holds the body of a brown-belted bumblebee, whose stinger contains venom that can cause allergic reactions in ...

Zipping from one hand to the other, six legs less than an inch long poke at the skin. As the cockroach explores, the movement continues. The 40th annual Insect Fear Film Festival happened on Saturday ...

Are all computer bugs bad? This year’s Insect Fear Film Festival proves that’s not the case when it goes online, like so many other film festivals, in response to safety ...

Lizzie Bello loves insects — and she wants you to love them too. “They’re really wonderful creatures,” said Bello, a Ph.D. student in entomology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). ...

A new anime film called The Island of Giant Insects opened in Japan a few days ago, and a very creepy live-action trailer was released on its Japanese website. Using a live-action trailer to promote ...

Over the past few years, your production company has financed many big-budget, high-octane, insect-inspired films such as Ant-Man (2015), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), ...

Jan Švankmajer's minor work is meta approach to a 1920s satirical play designed to expose the thin line between insect and human behavior. Lesser works by great directors needn’t diminish ...

Jan Švankmajer's minor work is meta approach to a 1920s satirical play designed to expose the thin line between insect and human behavior. Lesser works by great directors needn’t diminish ...