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A Balasaur Score of 70 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 6.9/10, Rotten Tomatoes 73%, Metacritic 67/100. Every source lands within 6 points of the others, across 1,300 audience votes. Scores higher than 75% of the 702 1990s crime movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes73%
Metacritic67/100
1,254 audience votes
Key crew
- Howard ShoreOriginal Music Composer
- David CronenbergDirector
- David CronenbergWriter
- Ornette ColemanOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Peter WellerBill Lee
- Judy DavisJoan Frost
- Ian HolmTom Frost
- Julian SandsYves Cloquet
- Roy ScheiderDr. Benway
- Monique MercureFadela
- Nicholas CampbellHank
- Michael ZelnikerMartin
- Robert A. SilvermanHans
- Joseph ScorenKiki
- Peter BoretskiCreature Voices / Exterminator #2
- Yuval DanielHafid
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Themes
based on novel or bookwritinghallucinationwriterbugillegal drugsexterminatorbeat generationgay theme
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