Naked Lunch
Naked Lunch
“ Exterminate all rational thought. ”
CINEMA1991-12-27
RegionCA / GB
Runtime115 MIN
Media TypeMovie
PRODUCTION COMPANIES
Nexus Editorial Perspective Nexus Original
“Psychedelic experiments trigger radical physical regression and transformation.”
Storyline
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 Medit...
DIRECTOR / Director
David Cronenberg
KEYWORDS
based on novel or bookwritinghallucinationwriterbugillegal drugsexterminatorbeat generationgay theme
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