Naked Lunch

“Exterminate all rational thought.”

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.

Director

David Cronenberg

Novela

William S. Burroughs

Music

Howard Shore

Screenplay

David Cronenberg

Status

Released

Release date

27/12/1991

Original language

English

Budget

US$ 16 M

Box office

US$ 3 M