

Exterminate all rational thought.
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.
CrimeDramabased on novel or bookwritinghallucinationwriterbugillegal drugsexterminatorbeat generationgay theme
- Addiction
- Body horror
- Bleak ending
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Cast
- Peter WellerBill Lee
- Judy DavisJoan Frost
- Ian HolmTom Frost
- Julian SandsYves Cloquet
- Roy ScheiderDr. Benway
- Monique MercureFadela
- Nicholas CampbellHank
- Michael ZelnikerMartin
- Robert A. SilvermanHans
- Joseph ScorenKiki
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- David CronenbergDirector
- David CronenbergWriter
- William S. BurroughsNovel
- Peter SuschitzkyDirector of Photography
- Howard ShoreOriginal Music Composer
- Ornette ColemanOriginal Music Composer
- Ronald SandersEditor
- Jeremy ThomasProducer
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