"Bugonia" — Read The Screenplay By Will Tracy
When Belief Becomes a Weapon.
"Bugonia" is a darkly comic psychological thriller about conviction taken to its breaking point. When two men abduct a powerful biotech CEO, convinced she’s an alien bent on destroying Earth, the screenplay unfolds as a battle not of evidence, but of belief.
Tense, unsettling, and unexpectedly compassionate, Bugonia explores how conspiracy thinking fills emotional voids, how ideology justifies cruelty, and how certainty can feel like salvation. It’s satire with teeth -- funny, frightening, and disturbingly plausible.
"Bugonia" — Educator Resources & Study Guide
Writing Paranoia: Satire, Belief, and Psychological Escalation.
"Bugonia" offers a sharp case study in using unreliable perspective to drive narrative tension. By treating conspiracy logic with absolute sincerity, the screenplay demonstrates how belief systems escalate conflict, distort reality, and transform language into a weapon.
For writers, it’s a lesson in disciplined satire, character-first ideology, and crafting psychological horror without supernatural confirmation -- proof that the most frightening monsters are the ones we invent to make sense of the world.
Bugonia (2025) — Classroom Study
"Bugonia" weaponizes obsession to critique systems without offering clean moral exits. As a remake of Jang Joon-hwan's "Save the Green Planet!", the screenplay updates the paranoia of early-2000s anti-globalization anxiety into a modern ecosystem of algorithmic radicalization, corporate power, and internet-fueled certainty. It’s less interested in aliens than in how people construct enemies when systems feel unbeatable. For students and educators, "Bugonia" is a standout example of ideological horror disguised as satire -- a screenplay that proves comedy can be terrifying, and that belief itself can be the monster.
- Conspiracy thinking as narrative structure.
- Satire vs endorsement in political storytelling.
- Writing unreliable protagonists.
- Radicalization and identity formation.
- Power dynamics in dialogue-driven scenes.
- Trauma, loneliness, and belief systems.
- Ethical boundaries of dark comedy.
"Bugonia" One Sheet & Script Intel
Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth. Focus Features
| Type | ... |
FYC
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| Version | ... | FINALPink Rev. |
| Date | ... | 08.12.2024 |
| Pages | ... | 102 |
| Genres | ... | Comedy Crime Sci-Fi |
| Screenplay | ... | Will Tracy |
| IMDb ID | ... | 12300742 |
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