Infestation  (2009)
Nomination Year: 2018
SYNOPSIS: 

Bugs take over one day. No reason. They just do. There's an incapacitating sound and the next thing, everyone's webbed up. No reason. Except for our hero Cooper, who wakes up. No reason.

Then begins a trek with a ragtag group of survivors to find the central hive before all of mankind becomes the prey of these giant (for no reason) insects!

Bryan Cassidy
Smithee Award Nominations
Stupidest-Looking Monster
Chad
They make it to Cindy's house and find her family webbed...except for Chad, who turned into a hybrid spider-bug-thing. "You're killing him!" she wails at one point. "No shit!"
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Best One-Liner
"He Seemed Nice," Said the Drunk Asshole
They're talking about Chad, who just tried to kill them. "That THING was my brother." "Yeah...he seemed nice." She storms off. "Even post-apocalypse, I'm the drunk asshole."
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Smithee Award Winner! Acting Appropriately Stupid
Cindy Loses It
Insane and feeling rejected, Cindy decides to yell for the bugs. And they come.
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"Let's Up The Rating To 'R'"
Not the Same Headspace
Cindy offers herself to Cooper, who is "not in the same head space" and he rejects her.
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Smithee Award Winner!MegaMetaSmithee Award Winner! Crummiest Ending
Holy Shi
It's the mop-up. The bug nest has been destroyed, and the bugs are all gone. They're going around waking people up—like they fricking should have been doing all along, since apparently the process leaves you completely unharmed. They're engaging in some light nerd-hero-gets-the-girl banter. Then: "Look!" They look offscreen. She says "Whoa!" He exclaims "Holy shit." And...the movie simply ENDS. CEASES. We never get to see what it was, nor was there ever any foreshadowing as to what it even might be that they're looking at.
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Worst Picture
Truck Ride
Cooper says it's a bad idea to try to leave in the truck. They don't listen. The blond driver runs over a bug and makes a snarky, inane comment. Immediate bug attack. Passenger Guy jumps out and breaks his leg. Driver gets bugnapped right out of the driver's seat. And then the out-of-control truck runs over Passenger Guy.
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Directors
Director Claim to Fame
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Cast
Actor Character Claim to Fame
Atanas Srebrev Wildeyes A TON of small credits, many Smithee, including Agent Madison in Hellboy (the 2019 David Harbour version), Freidman in Shark Attack 3: Megalodon, Carlo in Raging Sharks, Erik Anderson in SharkMan, Captain Bonasera in Sharks in Venice...wait...does this guy have a shark fetish or something? 
Todd Jensen Skinny/Bathroom Cop Commissioner Morelli in Thick as Thieves and Det. Traxler in Ninja
Kinsey Packard Cindy Lynn in Nuclear Family and Sasha Childers in Girls Gone Psycho. She does a good psycho. 
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