The Way of All Pests

The Bug Parade

October 1941 •English

A spot gag cartoon presenting amusing facts about bugs.

Red-end and the Factory Plant

October 2015 •Dutch

Redback has to find red peppers in the wood and discovers a bio-industry of carnivorous plants, but gets captured. Red-end sets Redback free by sabotaging the meat factory.

A Bug's Life

November 1998 •English

On behalf of "oppressed bugs everywhere," an inventive ant named Flik hires a troupe of warrior bugs to defend his bustling colony from a horde of freeloading grasshoppers led by the evil-minded Hopper.

James and the Giant Peach

April 1996 •English

When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possession of a giant peach that flies him away to strange lands.

Prótesis

October 2019 •Spanish

Marcos, a prosthetic creator with a traumatic past, finds a corpse in his laboratory. While deciding what to do with the corpse he will have to juggle his strange family life, a zombie movie, the possibility of new love and creating the perfect prosthesis for a very special client.

Brightheart 2: Firefly Action Brigade

July 2020 •English

Brightheart and her insect buddies form a task force called the Firefly Action Brigade to protect and serve their village. One day their peace is broken by a mysterious alien spaceship landing nearby, and it's up to them to save the day.

Planet Sigma

February 2015 •French

On planet Sigma, enormous creatures are trapped inside the ice. And then, all of a sudden explosions erupt from subterranean volcanoes. The ice begins to melt; a global warming concludes the giants’ deep slumber and new life begins. The creatures crawl forth, out of the ice.

The Butterfly Ball

April 1977 •English

Roger Glover puts on a star-studded concert at the Royal Albert Hall for his concept album "The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast".

Anatomy of a moth

October 2004 •Spanish

The God

May 2003 •Russian

The film shows Shiva in a very traditional representation--in bronze and standing within a circle of bronze flames. Suddenly, a fly lands on Shiva's arm--one of many arms to be exact. Slowly, the bronze statue comes alive and swats the fly--missing again and again and eventually smashing the bronze circle.

Return to Horror Hotel

June 2019 •English

Return to Horror Hotel is an anthology feature with 4 segments. One is about giant a bedbugs, one is about a magical charm that turns girls beautiful, one is about a WWII sailor who hasn't aged and one is about a terrorizing severed hand.

Dot And Keeto

May 1986 •English

Dot, an Australian girl, seeks the magical green root that will give her the ability to talk to animals. She eats a red root by mistake, and is shrunk to the size of an ant. With the help of her friends Keeto the mosquito and Butterwalk the caterpillar, she searches for the green root that will restore her size. But she must find it before sundown, or she will shrink even smaller.

Cristóbal Molón

November 2006 •Basque

In the year 1512, two insects embark on an expedition that becomes the adventure of their lives.

Exterminated

May 2013 •English

An exterminator discovers a strange, out-of-the-ordinary world full of insect-animal hybrids after falling through a large crack while he was doing his job.

The Pink Egg

April 2017 •English

Luis Buñuel’s observation – “You can find all of Shakespeare and de Sade in the lives of insects” – was the inspiration for this experimental horror movie, in which human actors wordlessly enact the life-cycles of wasps and bees. Its purpose is to depict with emotion, humor and unnerving specificity an alternative society that really exists and has nothing to do with human beings. A highly stylized depiction of nature in all her deceitful glory.

The Beautiful Leukanida

April 1912 •Russian

Two insects fight over the hand of a beautiful lady.

The Spider and the Tulip

April 1943 •Japanese

A ladybird is being chased by a black-faced spider.

Insect

March 2021 •English

When friends who are vacationing in an isolated cabin are attacked by a swarm of deadly insects, they must find a way to destroy the creatures if they are to make it out alive.

The Insects' Christmas

January 1913 •Russian

A Father Christmas ornament climbs down from a decorated tree, and goes to the forest. There he creates and decorates a Christmas tree for the forest creatures. He then invites all the insects, along with a friendly frog, to come and enjoy the gifts he has prepared, and to celebrate Christmas.

The Cameraman's Revenge

October 1912 •Russian

A jilted husband takes his revenge by filming his wife and her lover and showing the result at the local cinema. This was one of Starewicz' first animated films, and stars a cast of animated beetles.