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.
1991 | 1 h 55 min
Director: David Cronenberg
Stars: Peter Weller