7.0 / 10
(1,078 votes)
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.
Canada,
United Kingdom,
United States of America
Crime,
Drama
115 minutes
1991
David Cronenberg
Recorded Picture Company,
Naked Lunch Productions,
20th Century Fox
$16,000,000
$2,641,357
2022
1.0
2014
5.1
1946
7.0
2004
6.8
1938
7.0
2002
5.3
2016
6.4
2017
6.7
2017
7.8
2007
7.7
2012
0.0
1971
7.4
2000
6.6
2009
5.0
2009
0.0
2009
6.1
1956
7.1
1967
7.0
2017
2.0
2017
5.7