Stars: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Julian Sands, Roy Scheider, Ian Holm, Ian Holm, Ian Holm

Director: David Cronenberg

Summary: A pest man escapes to a fantasy world.

The dry wit of William S. Burroughs transfers surprisingly well to the screen, where a pest-control man seeking escape from his troubled existence flees to Interzone, a hallucinatory version of Tangiers, where reality and fantasy have merged. Peter Weller does a dead-on Burroughs impression, and the film follows a bizarre logic and has a dark, rich look that help make it one of Cronenberg's more satisfying works. It's not exactly Burroughs, but it is a strange, surreal landscape inhabited by half-alien, half-insect creatures and bizarre humans. And, like all other Cronenberg films it's a bit squishy; it is full of the biological dread that pervades all his films. Make no mistake, this film is not exactly faithful to the novel, and Cronenberg provides it with a neat framework, beginning and ending with Benway accidentally(

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Reviewed by: davybozal24-7
Posted on March 7, 2006 5:41 PM

This must be Peter Wellers most talked about film about a pest control expert who starts to dabble with his own pest control substances and starts to hallucinate big time.

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You are now entering Interzone, William S Burroughs' phantasmagorical land of junk, paranoia and crawly things. Best travel advice: "Exterminate all rational thought". In David Cronenberg's superbly shot, unnerving warp on the Burroughs novel, Naked Lunch, the novelist himself becomes a main character (played in an implacable monotone by Peter Weller), with elements from Burroughs' life--including the shooting of his wife during a "William Tell" game, and bohemian friends Kerouac and Ginsberg--added to frame the book's wild visions. This is, ironically, a somewhat rational approach to an unfilmable book (and it makes a hair-curling double bill with Barton Fink, another look at writerly madness, with both films sharing Judy Davis). Cronenberg is a natural for oozing mugwumps and typewriters that turn into giant bugs, of course. But in the end, this is really his own vision of the artistic process, rather than Burroughs' hallucinatory descent into hell. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Director Commentary, Paul Weller Commentary, Indepth Documentary, Still Gallery, Trailers
Year:	1991
Release Date:	July 26, 2004
Runtime:	110 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	O P T D 0068
Keywords:	General, Naked, Lunch, Horror, Occult, Sci, Fi
Genre:	Horror/Occult