Naked Lunch (18)

In a career dedicated to seeing the unseeable and filming the unfilmable, perhaps only David Cronenberg could really do justice to William S. Burroughs’ controversial novel, Naked Lunch. The resulting film - originally released in 1991 and now presented from a new 4K restoration - is provocative, transgressive, and surreal – a feast for the senses, where nothing is true and everything is permitted.

Starring Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands and Roy Scheider, former drug addict William Lee makes ends meet as an exterminator. But when he and his wife Joan discover the hallucinatory properties of the powder he uses to kill bugs, they become hooked, and their world is changed forever.

Insects speak, typewriters mutate and talk, interdimensional beings reveal themselves, identities fracture and blur; nothing and no one is quite what it seems.

When Bill, under the influence of drugs, or the bugs that have begun talking to him, shoots his wife, he flees to Interzone, at once a place and a state of mind, where things only get stranger.