What emerges is recognizable but fully transformed Burroughs material.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 26, 2022

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 7, 2011

Obviously this is not everybody's cup of weird tea: you must have a taste for the esthetics of disgust. For those up to the dare, it's one clammily compelling movie.

| Mar 31, 2008

Given that nobody could really have adapted Burroughs' book in any literal manner, what Cronenberg does instead is predictably creepy, warped and dreamy.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 8, 2005

While I admired it in an abstract way, I felt repelled by the material on a visceral level. There is so much dryness, death and despair here, in a life spinning itself out with no joy.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 27, 1991