Naked Lunch (1991)

Exterminate all rational thought.

115 min★ 6.9 · 61,601 votes

• Drama
• Mystery

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

December 27, 1991

Country of origin

Canada, Japan, United Kingdom

Budget

$16,000,000

Box office

$2,641,357