Nightmare Alley: NAKED LUNCH (1991) - Canadian Theatrical Premiere of New 4K Restoration!
Schedule
Thu, 25 Sep, 2025 at 09:30 pm
UTC-04:00Location
400 Roncesvalles Avenue, Toronto, ON, Canada, Ontario M6R 2M9 | Toronto, ON
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NEW RESTORATION! Peter Weller plays William Lee, a writer and exterminator addicted to his own bug powder. After accidentally killing his wife Joan (Judy Davis), Lee escapes to Interzone at the suggestion of his typewriter (a giant talking roach) and the Mugwump (a hideous humanoid creature) — who are both counter-agents to the conspiracy of Interzone, Inc. Lee tumbles into this conspiracy, marred by the nefarious Dr. Benway (Roy Scheider), fugue states, love interests, black centipedes, sexual typewriters, and a whole kaleidoscope of hallucinations that will infect your subconscious if you let them.
William S. Burroughs' book was considered unfilmable, considering it's not actually a novel, but a series of semi-connected vignettes you could read in any order. David Cronenberg's approach was to gather various characters and situations from multiple Burroughs books to populate a faux-biography of the author himself attempting to write the book this film is based on. Sharing an affinity for the grotesque and a bone-dry sense of humour, it makes perfect demented sense to bring together the most notorious of all the Beat poets with Canada's king of cold-blooded body horror. Dangerous, hallucinatory, horny, and transgressive, NAKED LUNCH is a bad trip you won't regret. “Exterminate all rational thought.” - Steven Landry
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Where is it happening?
400 Roncesvalles Avenue, Toronto, ON, Canada, Ontario M6R 2M9Event Location & Nearby Stays:
