NAKED LUNCH w/ Live Music by Revenant Sea (Sheri Hupfer & Mark Schwaber)!
Sat, Mar 07
|Epsilon Spires
EXTERMINATE ALL RATIONAL THOUGHT! Enjoy David Cronenberg's cerebral and grotesque, body-horror adaptation of William S. Burroughs’s celebrated 1959 nonlinear novel- historic for being the last piece of literature prosecuted for obscenity in the United States. OUR RETRO-FUTURISM NOIR SERIES FINALE!
Time & Location
Mar 07, 2026, 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
About the event
NAKED LUNCH (1991, 115 mins, Dir. David Cronenberg). MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY, PLEASE.
Leave logic at the door and embrace our insect overlords in one of the most hallucinatory films ever made! This singular cinematic oddity sprung from the minds of one of the great poets of the 20th century and one of the great filmmakers – and undoubtedly a huge amount of mind-altering substances! In this adaptation of William S. Burroughs’s hallucinatory, once-thought-unfilmable novel Naked Lunch, Bill Lee (Peter Weller aka: Robocop) is an exterminator with a penchant for ingesting pesticides. While hallucinating, Bill begins to take orders from a giant beetle that commands him to kill his wife and flee into the Interzone. There, he meets his wife’s doppelgänger and his typewriter morphs into a cockroach and begins to produce the book that the film is based upon. And that’s just the start of this surrealist masterpiece’s convoluted and…
Tickets
NAKED LUNCH W/ REVENANT SEA!
POPCORN INCLUDED. PLEASE BRING CASH FOR THE BAR.
$20.00
SLIDING-SCALE TICKET
POPCORN INCLUDED.
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