The Prince Charles Cinema

Naked Lunch

Naked Lunch

  • 1992
  • 115mins
  • United Kingdom, Canada, Japan
  • (18)
  • Film
Directed by David Cronenberg Starring Peter Weller, Roy Scheider, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands

Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee (Peter Weller) and his dead-eyed wife, Joan (Judy Davis), like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway (Roy Scheider), 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.

Saturday 28th December