David Cronenberg's 1991 adaptation of William S. Burroughs'
novel Naked Lunch sees the director combine the novel with
aspects of the author's own biography. Peter Weller plays an
exterminator who discovers the powder he uses to kill bugs doubles as a
hallucinogenic drug, leading him down a surreal rabbit hole.
Arrow Video will release a new 4K restoration of Naked Lunch approved by Cronenberg
on 4K UHD and limited edition two-disc bluray on April 17th. The UHD comes
with an 80-page book, poster and reproduction lobby cards.
Check out Arrow's new trailer below.
The official synopsis reads:
Former junkie William Lee (Peter Weller, Robocop) makes ends meet as an exterminator. But when he and his wife Joan (Judy Davis, Barton Fink) discover the hallucinatory properties of the powder he uses to kill bugs, they become hooked, and their world is changed forever. Insects speak, typewriters mutate and talk, interdimensional beings reveal themselves, identities fracture and blur; nothing and no one is quite what it seems. When Bill, under the influence of drugs, or the bugs that have begun talking to him, shoots his wife, he flees to Interzone, at once a place and a state of mind, where things only get stranger.
