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.
Howard Shore | Original Music Composer |
Peter Suschitzky | Director of Photography |
William S. Burroughs | Novel |
David Cronenberg | Director |
Jane Tattersall | Sound Effects Editor |
Don White | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
Christine Hart | Makeup Department Head |
Chris Walas | Creature Design |
Peter Maxwell | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
David Evans | Sound Effects Editor |