4K release of Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch announced

Arrow Video has announced a 4K UHD release of David Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch on 17 April 2023.

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.

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.

Featuring a new 4K restoration approved by director David Cronenberg, and packed with an exhaustive selection of extras, including a new commentary and featurettes, this essential release also includes reproduction lobby cards, poster and an 80-page book. It will also be available on a Limited Edition two-disc Blu-ray, as well as an Arrow Store exclusive Original Art slipcase UHD edition.

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.

Naked Lunch is released on 4K UHD on 17 April 2023 by Arrow Video.