
“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.
Release Date: 12/27/1991
Runtime: 115 minutes
Languages: Arabic, English
Director: David Cronenberg
Budget: $16.0M
Revenue: $2.6M
Companies: Recorded Picture Company, Naked Lunch Productions
Countries: Canada, United Kingdom
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