The Pink Egg

The Pink Egg (2017) is a comedy, horror film directed by Jim Trainor.

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.

Cast

Julia Zinn

Polistes, a paper wasp; queen

Lori Felker

Ampulex, a cockroach wasp; female

Molly Feingold

Crabro, a fly-hunting wasp; female

Chet Mazur

Arilus, an assassin-bug; female

Boki Bodunrin

Anoplius, a spider wasp; female

Vicky Yen

Sphecius, the Cicada Killer; female

Shelby Fossell

Parcoblatta, a cockroach; female

Christy Lemaster

Spider

Clare Britt

Tibicen, a cicada; female

Alica Da Cunha

Apis, the Honeybee; worker

Meredith Miller

Evagetes, a brood-parasitic spider wasp; female

Jenny Kendler

Microbembex, the Scavenger Wasp; female