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.
Cast
Peter Weller
Bill Lee
Judy Davis
Joan Frost
Ian Holm
Tom Frost
Julian Sands
Yves Cloquet
Roy Scheider
Dr. Benway
Monique Mercure
Fadela
Nicholas Campbell
Hank
Michael Zelniker
Martin
Robert A. Silverman
Hans
Joseph Scoren
Kiki
Peter Boretski
Creature Voices / Exterminator #2
Yuval Daniel
Hafid
John Friesen
Hauser
Sean McCann
O'Brien
Howard Jerome
A.J. Cohen
Michael Caruana
Pawnbroker
Kurt Reis
Exterminator #1
Louis Ferreira
Exterminator #3
Julian Richings
Exterminator #4
Jim Yip
The Chink
Claude Aflalo
Forgeman
Laurent Hazout
Interzone Boy
Joseph Di Mambro
Interzone Boy
Crew
David Cronenberg
Director, Writer
William S. Burroughs
Novel
Ronald Sanders
Editor
Peter Suschitzky
Director of Photography
Jeremy Thomas
Producer
Gabriella Martinelli
Co-Producer
Carol Spier
Production Design
Deirdre Bowen
Casting
Brenda Gilles
Costume Supervisor
Denise Cronenberg
Costume Design
Veronica Ciandre
Hairstylist
Rhoda Ancill
Hairstylist
Carmen MacDonald
Hairstylist
Lucy M. Orton
Hairstylist
Christine Hart
Makeup Department Head
Marlene Aarons
Assistant Makeup Artist
Judy Murdock
Assistant Makeup Artist
Marilyn O'Quinn
Assistant Makeup Artist
David Evans
Sound Effects Editor
Jane Tattersall
Sound Effects Editor
Peter Maxwell
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Don White
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
David Appleby
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Bryan Day
Sound Mixer
Howard Shore
Original Music Composer
Ornette Coleman
Original Music Composer
Tony Currie
Dialogue Editor
Wayne Griffin
Dialogue Editor
Elinor Rose Galbraith
Set Decoration
Chris Walas
Creature Design
James McAteer
Art Direction
