Naked Lunch

He- I would say he's probably like the king of body horror.

He directed eXistenZ, Eastern Promises, Dead Ringers, Naked Lunch, Scanners, Videodrome, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

I would definitely agree that he's the, the king of body horror.

Like-

Oh

... who shot my beloved Dead Ringers, Existenz, Naked Lunch, Eastern Promises, History of Violence, Crash, which again, I adore-

Mm, mm-hmm

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They mention a couple of other films.

Yeah, Josephine Decker's film Shirley and David Cronenberg's adaptation of Naked Lunch.

Oh, wow.

Okay.

Exactly.

They put the author inside her own aesthetic.

And then, uh, Cronenberg took that even further with Naked Lunch.

Oh, way further.

another level of, was it Salute the New Flesh?

Yeah, and just to square that circle, ironically, there's a 1959 novel called Naked Lunch,

which

contains a chapter called Senders, which is basically this movie.

And Cronenberg would, of course, later direct a film version of Naked Lunch.

Which they said was from the book William S. Burroughs.

That's right.

They're sort of bedfellows, as it were.

Uh, guys, you know him as Murphy from RoboCop and RoboCop 2.

Uh, Leviathan, Naked Lunch, Star Trek Into Darkness.

Uh, he was in a season of Dexter, a season of 24.

Uh, are you gonna mention the movie? Are you gonna mention one of his best movies? If not, go ahead, keep going.

Our movies this week.

The first one is called Naked Lunch.

It's from 1991.

It stars Peter Weller, Judy Davis, and Ian Holm.

So-

I have trauma

... [laughs] so tell our listeners what happened when you tried to watch Naked Lunch.

I couldn't finish.

Absolutely.

Yeah, I mean, for me, this is to Lovecraft what Naked Lunch, the movie, is to Burroughs.

That's

a good example, yeah.

I mean, Stephen King... particularly during his cocaine years he was unbelievably prolific i mean one of he might be the most prolific writer to have ever lived i'm not joking yeah he wakes up and does 3 000 words minimum doesn't

even imply he can't remember writing some of them or something yeah yeah well i mean like money

yeah hilariously i mean like i think lubcraft said that by the time he made it to the sanitarium but um you know the the reality is yeah he says like i mean you know william burroughs said that about naked lunch he was so whacked out and had so many ideas that they were pulling out old manuscripts and going steven this is really good like we'll publish this now that you're famous and he's like fuck it yeah so he had stuff that he wrote in the 70s coming out in the 80s.

He wrote stuff in the 80s that came out in the 90s.

And his film from the Kafka novel is sort of one of the good examples of this.

And the other one that I thought of is Naked Lunch by David Cronenberg.

And that's because it's one of these movies, again, where you are not really sure what is real, what is fiction, what is fantasy.

Everything sort of blends together.