Product Information
A pest man escapes to a fantasy world.Product Identifiers
ProducerJeremy Thomas
EAN5060034571025
eBay Product ID (ePID)30751898
Product Key Features
Film/TV TitleNaked Lunch
ActorJulian Sands, Judy Davis, Peter Weller, Roy Scheider, Ian Holm
DirectorDavid Cronenberg
FormatDVD
Release Year2004
LanguageEnglish
FeaturesDirector Commentary\Paul Weller Commentary\Indepth Documentary\Still Gallery\Trailers
GenreHorror/Occult, General
Additional Product Features
Certificate18
Number of Discs1
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
ReviewsTime Out - [David Cronenberg's] most complex and brilliant cinematic metaphor to date...
Additional InformationThe dry wit of William S. Burroughs transfers surprisingly well to the screen, where a pest-control man seeking escape from his troubled existence flees to Interzone, a hallucinatory version of Tangiers, where reality and fantasy have merged. Peter Weller does a dead-on Burroughs impression, and the film follows a bizarre logic and has a dark, rich look that help make it one of Cronenberg's more satisfying works. It's not exactly Burroughs, but it is a strange, surreal landscape inhabited by half-alien, half-insect creatures and bizarre humans. And, like all other Cronenberg films it's a bit squishy; it is full of the biological dread that pervades all his films. Make no mistake, this film is not exactly faithful to the novel, and Cronenberg provides it with a neat framework, beginning and ending with Benway accidentally(
Movie/TV TitleNaked Lunch