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Naked Lunch (1991)

7.0 IMDb 73% RT 67/100 MC
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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.

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Arrow Video · 4K + Blu-ray

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Director

David Cronenberg

Genre

Crime, Drama

Sub-Genre

Neo-Noir

Box Office

$2,641,357

Runtime

1 hour and 55 minutes (115 minutes)

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Editor's Notes

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S-Tier Arrow Video 4K. Cronenberg's Burroughs adaptation with a perfect 5.0 specs score. Arrow's 4K releases have a reputation for better encoding than Criterion's equivalents. The Turbine release also exists for European collectors. Worth knowing this is deeply weird Cronenberg before pressing play.

noted Apr 9, 2026

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Finally have enough Criterion’s to fill up one of my shelves! 10 Naked Lunch 4K coming from Arrow Video UK 24 Naked Lunch Turbine 4K release 0 Finally got Ford V. Ferrari on sale + the necessary sacrifice of buying some Cronenberg films I’ve never seen on Blu. Expect Dead Ringers announcement any time now lol 6 Naked Lunch 4K vs. Bluray 10

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