This surrealist, psychedelic sci-fi noir from director David Cronenberg follows exterminator William Lee (Peter Weller), who, along with his wife Joan (Judy Davis, Barton Fink), becomes addicted to insecticide.
Believing himself a secret agent, and hallucinating an anthropomorphic cockroach, Bill’s life spirals even further following a tragic incident – exiling him to the secret North African organisation ‘Interzone’, embroiled in an elaborate, phantasmagoric bug-filled conspiracy.
A symbiotic artistic marriage of two prolific storytelling provocateurs, David Cronenberg’s paranoia masterpiece Naked Lunch ingeniously solves the dilemma of adapting an unadaptable novel by extrapolating elements of William S. Burroughs’ own life to fuel this head-spinningly dreamlike cult classic.