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Film · 2025

Bugonia

Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos · starring Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons and Alicia Silverstone

  • 2 h
  • 15
  • Comedy · Crime · Science fiction
  • IrelandUSA
  • Released in the UK 30 October 2025
  • 6.4 AverageMovieNCo
  • 6.8 Users3 votes
  • 6.0 Critics1 review
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Synopsis

Bugonia follows two young individuals obsessed with conspiracy theories, convinced that hidden forces control the world from the shadows. Their fascination with the inexplicable leads them to a point of no return when they decide to take matters into their own hands: kidnapping a renowned executive from a powerful technology company. They are convinced that she is not human, but an alien infiltrated in society to manipulate humanity and accelerate the destruction of the planet.

After meticulously planning the kidnapping, they manage to hold her in a remote location. There begins a tense confrontation where the boundaries between reason and paranoia blur. The young men attempt to force her to communicate with her supposed home planet to stop the damage that, according to them, she has caused. However, as the confinement drags on, tensions rise and the situation begins to spiral out of their control.

Outside, the disappearance of a high-profile public figure triggers an intense media and police search. The captors find themselves cornered by their own fears, by the contradictions in their beliefs, and by the growing possibility that it all may have been a terrible mistake. Will the executive manage to escape? Or will the young men discover a more disturbing truth than their theories?

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The essentials

Runtime
120 min2 hours
Box office
£2.7min UK
Rating
15Suitable only for 15 years and over
How long is Bugonia?
2 hours (120 minutes).
When was Bugonia released in the UK?
It was released in the UK on 30 October 2025.
Who directed Bugonia?
Yorgos Lanthimos.
Who is in Bugonia?
It stars Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Alicia Silverstone and Stavros Halkias.
Where can I watch Bugonia?
In the UK you can watch it on buy on Prime Video.
How much did Bugonia make?
It took £2.7 million in UK.
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Cast

Full cast (10)
Director
Yorgos Lanthimos
Producers
Ari Aster, Lars Knudsen, Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone
Cinematography
Robbie Ryan

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Reviews

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6.8 3 votes

What the critics say 6.0, from one outlet

  • 6.0 The GuardianPeter Bradshaw "Jesse Plemons delivers an efficient punch as the fanatical Teddy who abducts Stone’s dead-eyed corporate ice queen in Lanthimos’s Korean remake". Read

Box office

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  • UK £2.7m

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Trivia

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  • Jerskin Fendrix

    Yorgos Lanthimos asked composer Jerskin Fendrix to create the scores for Pobres criaturas (2023) & Kinds of Kindness (2024), by reading the scripts without seeing any footage of the films. For Bugonia (2025), Lanthimos did not provide the script, giving Fendrix only four key words to work with: "Bees. Basement. Spaceship. Emily-bald."

  • Salvar el planeta tierra

    Bugonia (2025) is an adaptation inspired by the 2003 South Korean film Jigureul jikyeora!. Initially, the original director, Jang Joon-hwan, was set to helm the project, working with American screenwriter Will Tracy on the screenplay. Due to health-related delays that prevented Jang Joon-hwan's continued involvement, CJ Entertainment, drawn to Yorgos Lanthimos' distinctive directorial vision, appointed him to lead the project forward instead.

  • VistaVision

    After successfully employing VistaVision for the reanimation sequence in Pobres criaturas (2023), director Yorgos Lanthimos decided to use this technology for the majority of scenes in this film. This is the third film of the 21st century shot substantially in VistaVision, after The Brutalist (2024) and Una batalla tras otra (2025).

  • Emma Stone

    Emma Stone had her head shaved on camera, and just minutes before the scene was shot, she shaved the head of her friend, director Yorgos Lanthimos.

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