Synopsis
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.
Ratings
TMDB
7.0Trailers
Technical team
David Cronenberg Directing
David Cronenberg Writing
Howard Shore Music
Ornette Coleman Music
Jeremy Thomas Producing
Production
Recorded Picture Company
Naked Lunch Productions
$16,000,000
$2,641,357