Naked Lunch

3.6

(359)

Crime

Drama

1991

115 min

Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends up in a constantly mutating Mediterranean city and learns that his hip friends have published his work -- which he doesn't remember writing.

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Crime

Drama

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""The guy from Robocop plays an exterminator who begins hallucinating after being exposed to the insecticide. He strikes up a conversation with a humanoid bug agent who sends him on a mission to kill his own wife." Naked Lunch has all of the elements of a classic, surrealist drama from the early 90's but unfortunately plays out as more of a low-budget Who Framed Roger Rabbit that gets lost in it's own narrative. While the film looks great, there were a few too many nonsensical turns in the story for me to enjoy the experience as a whole. Watch as a comparative feature."

Sur Graham

"The book was apparently so bizarre it was considered to be "unfilmable" by many directors. Chronenberg undertook the challenge and made it into a moden classic. "

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Katie Wilson

"Only a director as perverse as Cronenberg would have the audacity to attempt putting this on screen. Almost as baffling as ‘Eraserhead’…"

Scott Stevens

"I can't find it to watch it. I saw it when it came out as a kid but couldn't understand it. But now that I'm much older I know I would and really want to see it but where, where is it!?"