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.

• DirectorDavid Cronenberg
• Release27 December 1991
• Genre
  Crime / Drama
• Duration1h 55m
• Budget$16,000,000
• Revenue$2,641,357
• Rate
  

  6.994
  1105 reviews
• Productions

  Recorded Picture Company, Naked Lunch Productions