Naked Lunch
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… From TMDB
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60 of 161 · most liked firstMy hot take: if you’re okay with Cronenberg turning Burroughs’ novel NAKED LUNCH into the 1991 film, you shouldn’t have some principled stance against whatever the hell Emerald Fennell did with WUTHERING HEIGHTS.
unlabelledView post →An appetizing little lunch movie from one of my favorite filmmakers. #NowWatching Naked Lunch (1991) #filmsky
unlabelledView post →Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg celebrates birthday, 3/15/1943. Absolute genius! Bangers: 70s Shivers, Rabid, BROOD 81 Scanners 83 Videodrome & Dead Zone 86 Fly 88 Dead Ringers 91 Naked Lunch 96 Crash 99 eXistenZ 05 History of Violence 07 Eastern Promises 22 Crimes of the Future #filmsky 📽
unlabelledView post →William S. Burroughs (with scenes from the film adaptation of his novel "Naked Lunch") - BOTD
unlabelledView post →Conventional wisdom says the book is always better than the movie, but that's not always true. Here are some movies I liked better than the books they're based on. What are yours? • Fight Club • Naked Lunch • Wild at Heart • Institute Benjamenta • Devil in a Blue Dress • Picnic at Hanging Rock
unlabelledView post →Dr Peter Weller says this @realgdt.bsky.social shepherded and nurtured bizzaro film is something people bring up a lot to him now in addition to Robocop and Naked Lunch and Buckaroo Banzai when he’s doing signings, so to whoever is doing that, thank you.
unlabelledView post →Four 📽 Faves: Ian Holm BOTD 9/12/31: Eclectic career in theater & film, from classics to avant-garde. Won BAFTA, Tony, & SAG, Oscar nom for CHARIOTS OF FIRE (81). 79 Alien 85 Brazil 94 Madness of King George 97 Sweet Hereafter (❤️ All-timer!) Honorable mention: NAKED LUNCH (91). #filmsky 📽
unlabelledView post →I watched Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch: a movie about being a writer, internalized homophobia, and the disconnected relationship your body has with your mind. I think it is one of his best. A deeply unsettling film.
unlabelledView post →Four 📽 Faves: Ian Holm BOTD 9/12/31: Eclectic career in theater & film, from classics to avant-garde. Won BAFTA, Tony, & SAG, Oscar nom for CHARIOTS OF FIRE (81). 79 Alien 85 Brazil 94 Madness of King George 97 Sweet Hereafter (❤️ All-timer!) Honorable mention: NAKED LUNCH (91). #filmsky 📽
unlabelledView post →Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg celebrates birthday, 3/15/43. Absolute genius! Bangers: 70s Shivers, Rabid, Brood 81 Scanners 83 Videodrome & Dead Zone 86 Fly 88 Dead Ringers 91 Naked Lunch 96 Crash 99 eXistenZ 05 History of Violence 07 Eastern Promises 22 Crimes of the Future #filmsky 📽🎥🎬🎞
unlabelledView post →I just discovered that the great Dr. Peter Weller has launched his own YouTube channel. And it has fun material here that should boost anyone's mood. Here is Weller making a great introduction to a Naked Lunch screening. youtu.be/NQHAcmWQ7u4?...
unlabelledView post →William S. Burroughs (with scenes from the film adaptation of his novel "Naked Lunch") - BOTD
unlabelledView post →Poster for the movie, NAKED LUNCH (1991), directed by David Cronenberg. Poster art by Hajime Sorayama.
unlabelledView post →Oh man, Thomas was a film lover's producer – Bad Timing, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Eureka, The Hit, The Last Emperor, Naked Lunch, Crash (the Cronenberg one, of course), Sexy Beast, High Rise, and many, many more. RIP. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
unlabelledView post →Picking a (not so) random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Year 2, Day #266 "Naked Lunch" (David Cronenberg/1991) Fucking inspired madness from William S. Burroughs and David Cronenberg! Check it out.
unlabelledView post →If you're coming to the great film producer Jeremy Thomas' talk abt Sexy Beast, The Last Emperor, Crash, Bad Timing, Naked Lunch, Young Adam etc at The Edinburgh Film Fest tomorrow, a treat: He has curated a 40 min playlist of music from his movies. Will be played loud, from 7.50pm! Spread the word
unlabelledView post →Castration Movie is our generation’s Naked Lunch
unlabelledView post →I'll tell you who did want to see that David Cronenberg movie of "Naked Lunch"... David Bowie and Adam Ant, who came to see it at my Cineplex Beverly Center in early 1992. It was like a Tuesday morning show, as I recall, and they were the only two people in the theater for that showing.
unlabelledView post →When I heard “Film adaptation of Naked Lunch” “by David Cronenberg” “Music by Ornette Coleman” I was exactly like the Vince McMahon meme
unlabelledView post →William S. Burroughs was BOTD in 1914 & died in 1997 at 83. I jerked off 2 his novel "Naked Lunch" in high school, my first porn. In 1991 Cronenberg made it into a film. The only time I met Burroughs was backstage after a spoken word performance w/ Kathy Acker at Convocation Hall
unlabelledView post →#NowWatching: @mw207.bsky.social says I need to see this, and the fact it's based on William S. Burroughs' work confirms this. ~20 years ago I read Naked Lunch in one sitting at a spa in Hot Springs, South Dakota, and that seemed as wrong as it sounds. #MovieSky #FilmSky #Queer
unlabelledView post →When I think Canadan film, David Cronenberg is my first thought. He's mostly associated with weird body horror, but he's also found ways to adapt the unfilmable novels Crash and Naked Lunch, nobody else would have been able to make those work on screen.
unlabelledView post →#nowrewatching Naked Lunch (1991) dir. David Cronenberg #filmsky #horrorsky Someone (sorry forgot who it was) mentioned other Cronenberg films as inspiration for fan art, so it’s a good reason to rewatch this underrated film👀
unlabelledView post →Is there a name for the genre of film adaptations of literary works that get turned into fictionalized versions of their authors' biographies? Like "Naked Lunch", Soderbergh's "Kafka", or "The Master and Margarita (2024)". 🤔
unlabelledView post →Naked Lunch (1991) I think this movie made me realize I was bi
unlabelledView post →William S. Burroughs (with scenes from the film adaptation of his novel "Naked Lunch") - BOTD
unlabelledView post →Naked Lunch: I would like to see my favourite typewriter/insect/butthole creature on the big screen I wanna know your film requests. What would you choose?
unlabelledView post →ok if u liked the new Queer movie i would highly recommend cronenberg’s adaptation of burroughs’ Naked Lunch… it’s wild
unlabelledView post →Now watching David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch (1991). Most people know Cronenberg from his recent collaboration with Charli xcx, but he actually got his start making quirky little movies this one #Filmsky #Sorry 📽️
unlabelledView post →Naked Lunch is kind of my standard answer. I love that movie.
unlabelledView post →Oh, and if you haven't seen Cronenberg's Naked Lunch, watch Cronenberg's Naked Lunch. It's fascinating. It's the only movie I've seen several dozen times, but couldn't tell if any of them were enjoyable. 🤷♂️
unlabelledView post →As I rudely exclaimed throughout the film, David's taken Naked Lunch and made it Blade Runner, and made it even more about art and the life of the mind. I wouldn't call it horror, but I will call it excellent sci-fi. Top marks all around.
unlabelledView post →#Hac24 #MusicChallenge Day 13: William Burroughs. Ornette Coleman - "Bugpowder (take 9)" (1991). An outtake from the soundtrack to David Cronenberg's film version of NAKED LUNCH. youtu.be/i3AKn0UjdeM
unlabelledView post →I know DEAD RINGERS blah blah but NAKED LUNCH is the Cronenberg film I'd watch all day.
unlabelledView post →Make a movie druggy: My Naked Lunch with Andre
unlabelledView post →I'm trying a new thing where I replace "AI" with "the dried centipede powder from Cronenberg's Naked Lunch movie". I only use the dried centipede powder to summarize documents! Did you know you can get dried centipede powder in different flavors? You don't have to stick with the default!
unlabelledView post →Movie week continues! Gonna watch Naked Lunch Never seen it
unlabelledView post →In 1992, an Australian cinema held an all-nude free screening of Cronenberg's Naked Lunch, but nobody showed up.
unlabelledView post →Also The Naked Lunch, Barton Fink, Twin Peaks: the early ‘90s were swirling existential dread captured on color-filtered film.
unlabelledView post →this @horrorvanguard.bsky.social with @sanktmaxtci.bsky.social discussing "Naked Lunch" is phenomenal, tackling both Adam's new book, and a deeply underappreciated Cronenberg movie: soundcloud.com/user-3179105...
unlabelledView post →Super excited for this midnight film at the @newbeverly.bsky.social ! David Cronenberg’s NAKED LUNCH, on glorious 35MM. Never seen this one so I’m ready to get fucked up and have my brain melted with a packed audience.
unlabelledView post →I'm kind of in the mood for a movie weekend. Good time to start with a Naked Lunch. #NowWatching #FilmSky
unlabelledView post →I’m off work, my son’s at school. I can throw a movie on, so to go along with my current Burroughs kick, I’m watching Naked Lunch
unlabelledView post →If we are mandating a book for high school curriculum this week, my pick is ‘Naked Lunch’. It’s short. It’s brilliant. The movie doesn’t spoil it. It will not bore the Youngs. It’s a springboard for talking about every aspect of 20th century culture. And it would keep kids from ever trying heroin.
unlabelledView post →Ornette Coleman, Barre Phillips & Denardo Coleman - A Night at Interzone. A concert for the Naked Lunch film and soundtrack, June 20, 1992, Tokyo, Japan youtu.be/4Lkba0IhSME?...
unlabelledView post →Insert a movie into another movie: The Naked Lunch Gun #filmsky 📽
unlabelledView post →Naked Lunch (1991) Dir. David Cronenberg #filmsky #movies #movie #cinema #film #films
unlabelledView post →Second film of the night and 117th of the year, from my list of re-watches one each year 1930-2024, #NowWatching Naked Lunch, 1991, David Cronenberg, Canada #filmsky 📽️
unlabelledView post →So there's this post on Tumblr of someone who downloaded what they thought was Naked Lunch, starring Peter Weller, and turned out to be My Little Pony The Movie starring Tara Strong et al, but with Naked Lunch subtitles... www.tumblr.com/fireball-me/...
unlabelledView post →My favorite film performances from the 1990s. Peter Weller, Bill Lee, "Naked Lunch" (directed by David Cronenberg). #movies #films #favoriteperformances #peterweller #nakedlunch #davidcronenberg
unlabelledView post →I remember when Iain Holm died at 88 and my reaction was "wait, he was how old?" ignoring that he played a man deep into middle age in NAKED LUNCH, a film released thirty years earlier.
unlabelledView post →anyway NAKED LUNCH (1991) gorgeous opening credits complete with ornette coleman’s music (possibly the best bit of the film)
unlabelledView post →Happy #LetterboxdFriday . Here are my #LastFourWatched #Film https://boxd.it/23Hn Naked Lunch (1991) dir. David Cronenberg The Gore Gore Girls (1972) dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis The Ugly Stepsister (2025) dir. Emilie Kristine Blichfeldt Bleeder (1999) dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
unlabelledView post →Been watching Barton Fink so many times recently that I'm now rewatching the OTHER freaky writer film from 1991 that's Julie Davis also starred in. Now Rewatching: Naked Lunch (1991, David Cronenberg)
unlabelledView post →Day 17: A film you like from the 1990s #moviesky #30dayfilmchallenge #FilmSky Naked Lunch
unlabelledView post →Me: A movie called Queer based on William S Burroughs writing, eh? My only experience with Burroughs is Cronenberg's Naked Lunch, so I wonder if the film will have anything fun like weird centipede stuff? Letterboxd poster for Queer: tee hee! #Filmsky
unlabelledView post →Naked Lunch is a Christmas movie, the same way Die Hard is.
unlabelledView post →There's a lost Cronenberg movie chronologically-speaking after "Naked Lunch," and "Videodrome" and before "eXistenZ" that is this.
unlabelledView post →honestly for a moment thought this was a film still from NAKED LUNCH
unlabelledView post →My favorite Simpson's joke is when Bart, Millhouse, and Nelson walk out of the movie theater after watching Naked Lunch and Nelson says "I can think of at least two things wrong with that title." youtu.be/9sL102pyaLg?...
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