Struggling against survival, Bill Lee, an exterminator, who kills bugs, whose wife uses the insecticides he uses as drugs and died, the thing that challenges him, as he finds himself involved in terrible with the police.
If you've yet to purchase this incredible mind-trip involving bug powder, Brazilian centipedes, typewriters turning into giant insects, and bumping into Mugwumps in bars then the Blu-ray release is well worth your hard earned money.
Cronenberg's overly-ambitious attempt at filming the unfilmable.
Zap2it.com
September 08, 2005
Given that nobody could really have adapted Burroughs' book in any literal manner, what Cronenberg does instead is predictably creepy, warped and dreamy.
Nick's Flick Picks
August 15, 2003
One of Cronenberg's most difficult but deliriously clever and emotionally insinuating films.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
September 05, 2007
a respectful fugue on Burroughs' life and art ... It can be forgiven its acolyte's soul, for it is willing ...to confront Burroughs' signature themes of addiction and control, and to meld them into ... an evocation of the master.
Urban Cinefile
May 05, 2007
This is the only film in which a typewriter beetle kills another typewriter beetle for being a secret agent. I mention it only because of the relevance of the written word, and typewriters %u2013 portable ones in this case %u2013 are the medium of the mes
Cronenberg is the right man for a very, very odd job.
Reno Gazette-Journal
January 05, 2004
There are no great scenes, just flat moments of weirdness with lots of schlorping noises.
Scene-Stealers.com
April 23, 2013
A challenge if you're expecting a forward-moving plot but there's also more than enough pitch-black humor and straight-faced madness to lighten the mood, especially since Burroughs' strange lingo and vicious knack for language are intact.
