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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.
Theatrical
Dec 27, 1991
Box Office
$2.6M
Budget
$16.0M
Return
0.2x
DVD / Blu-ray
Nov 11, 2003
Theaters
1
Director
Producers
Music
Studio
Recorded Picture Company, Naked Lunch Productions
Cast
Full credits →P
Peter Weller
Bill Lee
J
Judy Davis
Joan Frost
I
Ian Holm
Tom Frost
J
Julian Sands
Yves Cloquet
R
Roy Scheider
Dr. Benway
M
Monique Mercure
Fadela
N
Nicholas Campbell
Hank
M
Michael Zelniker
Martin
R
Robert A. Silverman
Hans
J
Joseph Scoren
Kiki
P
Peter Boretski
Creature Voices / Exterminator #2
J
John Friesen
Hauser
S
Sean McCann
O'Brien
H
Howard Jerome
A.J. Cohen
M
Michael Caruana
Pawnbroker
K
Kurt Reis
Exterminator #1
L
Louis Ferreira
Exterminator #3
J
Julian Richings
Exterminator #4
J
Joseph Di Mambro
Interzone Boy
