I hate this movie so much, I love it again.

Just... seriously. What an amazing film! When I first saw it as a 20 year old film buff kid, in film school I thought it was an ok cool movie that was weird made by a director I liked and a writer I thought I knew and liked but 20 years later I'm 40 and re watched this Masterpiece! And it clicked in so many ways it didn't back then even though I thought I got it... but now it was an amazing experience to see the struggles of a drug addicted writer portrayed on screen as a noir style fantasy mystery... it's just brilliant beyond brilliant... that ending... ooozing of so much meaning

This was such a bizarre, stupid movie. Don't bother with this one.

Bizarre and surreal are apt descriptions of Naked Lunch. It leans into its alternate reality feel well and offers an entertaining story the viewer happily follows. I would watch this again.

Even after I've watched the movie I'm still not sure I've seen it. I'm not sure whether to give it .5 stars or 4.5 stars. You'll either love it or hate it or both.

It's an absolute masterpiece! It's weird, complex, defying, provocative, obscene, hard to swallow. It's a film you'll go back to year after year, just to see if it still has the same effect on you - just to find out that it'll shock you in a different way. I ought to make this straightforward: it's a film dealing with drug addiction and drug trafficking in a very, very metaphorical way. After the protagonist - a junkie - shot his wife - also an unfaithful junkie - under the influence in a pretend William Tell scene, the falls back into a personal world of drug induced delirium and illusion to justify his actions, only to find out that drugs became his life. It's a punch in the stomach. You'll not regret to see it!

Move over Alice - there's a new psychedelic hero in town! This David Cronenberg masterpiece is well filmed and will raise the bar on bizarrerie

The thought of David Cronenberg adapting a novel by William Burroughs is clearly the recipe for a surreal nightmare and Naked Lunch does not disappoint on that front. When a dour bug exterminator and once-aspiring writer becomes addicted to the lethal powder used to kill his prey, he descends into a world of madness and intrigue that includes bug-like talking typewriters and sex-crazed centipedes. While the film looks great, it is the story that is ultimately its downfall. The plot, much like the book itself, is mostly incomprehensible, where any kind of character development or storyline is sacrificed for a surrealism that only seems to exist for some sort of shock value. That's not to say that there aren't parts of the film that are intriguing, but the sum of the parts is just a bit of a head-shaker.

Peter 'Robocop' Weller is a pest control worker who finds out his wife (Judy Davis) is addicted to injecting bug powder and may or may not be an inhuman agent of Interzone Incorporated. Yes. I just wrote that. This is an entirely drug-fucked, nightmarish yet humourous adaptation of William S Burroughs 1959 novel brought to the life by Canadian maestro David Cronenberg. I've never read Burroughs book (but I am aware of his notoriety as a forefather of the Beat Generation, the infamous 'William Tell' Incident and his narration of REM's 'Star Me Kitten' as featured on the X-Files album) so I can't comment on it's faithfulness to the novel, but I am aware of Cronenberg's particular brand of body horror and this absolutely fits the aesthetic. Weller plays the role as written, channeling Burroughs in both appearance and delivery and effectively straddling a dense concoction of addiction, psychosis and sexuality. There isn't much point attempting to find any logic within the narrative, it's best to just sit back,go along with the ride and avoid the fleshy orgasmic typewriters as best as you can.

I’m all about a weird movie and not knowing what is going on at all . At least this was original and not boring . With that said the runtime starts to drag a bit because you don’t really know what you are watching 3/5

First of all, Peter Weller is outstanding in this film. I enjoyed this film very much.

one of a kind. the closest a movie has come to tripping. i would know, i'm tripping

It defies genre conventions in a sickening way, it is darkly funny without being too offensive, and it has enough grotesque imaginery without becoming a conventional horror movie. It is a strange, mad, sometimes incomprehensible and others disturbing, but ultimately a rewarding movie experience.

He fucks a talking typewriter in the mouth by typing about how wonderful it is to pretend to be a homosexual and talks to giant mutant bugs. Yeah. It's that kind of movie.

Yes, it is disgusting. Yes, it is nonsensical, but if you think that this is the combination of David Cronenberg and William S. Burroughs, we really got off easy! I did not read the book but I also think make a film about it was a crazy idea from the start. Anyway, interesting work but not particularly unforgettable.

As much as I love Cronenberg, this is one of the few works of his, that no matter how many times I give it a try, I just can't get into it. It's just soo boring and pretencious it loses me about halfway in. Still, it's an ambitious work, that tries it's best to distill the madness of Burroughs. It's a commendable effort. And there's a lot of striking, memorable imagery.

Not for everyone, for sure. But one of Cronenberg's best. If you like "Videodrome" and "Dead Ringers", you will love this film.

Weird nightmare anticipated and you got it loud and clear .

I liked the the setting and the acting, the lights, but the movie is very boring, non suspense at all.

They don't make such surreal things like this anymore. This movie kind of wraps Cronenberg up at his peak between The Fly and the eXistenZ. Unique stuff that this generation never know they'd miss.