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Naked Lunch
After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally murders his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in North Africa.
8 November 1954
6 June 1964, Toronto, Canada
10 November 1932, Orange, New Jersey, USA
24 March 1952, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
23 April 1955, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
24 February 1943, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
8 September 1955, Hampstead, London, England, UK
20 February 1966, Terceira, Açores, Portugal
24 September 1935, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
14 November 1930, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
12 September 1931, Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK
24 June 1947, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, USA
January 05, 2004
There are no great scenes, just flat moments of weirdness with lots of schlorping noises.
July 10, 2003
Cronenberg's overly-ambitious attempt at filming the unfilmable.
May 05, 2007
This is the only film in which a typewriter beetle kills another typewriter beetle for being a secret agent. I mention it only because of the relevance of the written word, and typewriters %u2013 portable ones in this case %u2013 are the medium of the mes
March 06, 2003
Cronenberg is the right man for a very, very odd job.
January 18, 2004
Stands on its own apart from the book.
March 09, 2003
At root the most personal mission statement of a vital cinematic voice.
April 12, 2013
If you've yet to purchase this incredible mind-trip involving bug powder, Brazilian centipedes, typewriters turning into giant insects, and bumping into Mugwumps in bars then the Blu-ray release is well worth your hard earned money.
August 15, 2003
One of Cronenberg's most difficult but deliriously clever and emotionally insinuating films.
September 08, 2005
Given that nobody could really have adapted Burroughs' book in any literal manner, what Cronenberg does instead is predictably creepy, warped and dreamy.
July 18, 2009
...very nearly accomplishes the book's goal of "extinguishing all rational thought."
April 23, 2013
A challenge if you're expecting a forward-moving plot but there's also more than enough pitch-black humor and straight-faced madness to lighten the mood, especially since Burroughs' strange lingo and vicious knack for language are intact.
September 05, 2007
a respectful fugue on Burroughs' life and art ... It can be forgiven its acolyte's soul, for it is willing ...to confront Burroughs' signature themes of addiction and control, and to meld them into ... an evocation of the master.