Naked Lunch Limited Edition Blu-ray

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Winner of Best Picture, Best Direction, and Best Screenplay at the 1992 Genie Awards and featuring an astonishing score by Howard Shore (Videodrome), Naked Lunch is provocative, transgressive, and surreal - a feast for the senses, where nothing is true and everything is permitted.

While exploring the darker corners of the Interzone, Bill comes to appreciate its entirety. He does not always understand what he sees or hears, but the atmosphere and the rhythm of life makes him feel good. Only occasionally he gets lost and wakes up with his heart racing in strange places that look a lot like junkyards. of teals, greens, browns and beiges, while also providing some suitably stomach churning fine detail in the bug material in particular. Kind ofThe film is anything but a straight adaptation of Burroughs’ source, eliding a loose autobiography of Burroughs’ life and specific passages from the book to create something incomprehensible but thematically full. Something that, I think, accurately captures Burroughs’ writing while being something completely of Cronenberg’s making. The horror maestro’s proclivity for stories about addiction and how that morphs both the person and the reality around them is on full display here, and the breathless production design and creature effects make for a fully realized vision. Now, for all of those creature effects, they’ve all served the test of time and only gain impact when exposed to 2160p. The practical craft is enhanced by the Dolby Vision HDR layer, plus the warm and cool color tones used throughout look better altogether when compared to previous releases. While this may not be the kind of night-and-day upgrade that people seem to clamor for with 4K, I found it to be the absolute best rendering I’ve seen of the film yet. Former junkie William Lee (Peter Weller, Robocop) makes ends meet as an exterminator. But when he and his wife Joan (Judy Davis, Barton Fink) discover the hallucinatory properties of the powder he uses to kill bugs, they become hooked, and their world is changed forever. Insects speak, typewriters mutate and talk, interdimensional beings reveal themselves, identities fracture and blur; nothing and no one is quite what it seems. When Bill, under the influence of drugs, or the bugs that have begun talking to him, shoots his wife, he flees to Interzone, at once a place and a state of mind, where things only get stranger.

Trailer (SD, 2 min.) – The original theatrical trailer for 'Naked Lunch' that features a voice-over pretending to be that of William S. Burroughs. literal senses) involving this character which is just one memorable moment that has a more or less direct analog in Total Recall.In a career dedicated to seeing the unseeable and filming the unfilmable, perhaps only David Cronenberg could really do justice to William S. Burroughs’ controversial novel, Naked Lunch. Weaving together elements of Burroughs’ own remarkable biography with the content of the book, Cronenberg’s film steps inside the body and mind of an author to depict the dangerous act of imagination itself from the inside out. Trailer - the original theatrical trailer for Naked Lunch created by 20th Century Fox. David Cronenberg once described it as "audacious and intelligent". In English, not subtitled. (2 min, 1080i).

The special features are superb. Along with a new visual essay by David Cairns which provides a perfect half-hour explanation for those seeking increased clarity about the film, there are interviews with most key creative crew members, which break down the film into manageable chunks by looking at the score, the effects, the cinematography etc. as separate entities which build up into a larger vision. The interviews range from fifteen minutes to an hour plus, including a full 60 minutes with Peter Weller. On top of this there are two audio commentaries, including one featuring Cronenberg. If you can’t get some kind of handle on Naked Lunch after all this, give up!Naked Making Lunch, archival making of documentary directed by Chris Rodley presented in a new scan from the director's personal 16mm print and viewable with a new audio interview with Rodley discussing his connection to Cronenberg and the process of making Naked Making Lunch Special Effects Gallery (HD) – There is an extensive collection of images detailing the special effects work of Chris Walas that is joined with a voice-over of Jody Duncan's essay from Cinefex magazine.