Naked Lunch

Naked Lunch

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Rating

3.5 (1)

Release Date

12/27/1991

Runtime

115 mins

Overview

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.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$16,000,000

Revenue

$2,641,357

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A nightmarish fever dream where reality dissolves into grotesque body horror and shifting landscapes, guided by a deadpan protagonist who may or may not be in control of what's happening. Cronenberg adapts Burroughs' unfilmable novel into a deliberately disorienting experience that prioritizes aesthetic excess and visceral unease over coherent narrative.

Mood

UnsettlingParanoid

Themes

AddictionArt and creationIdentityMortality

Look

Practical effectsHigh-contrastStylized genre

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Graphic violenceSexual contentAddictionBody horror

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