Episode 89: HALLOWEEN DOUBLE FEATURE: Naked Lunch (1991) and Brain Damage (1988)

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Happy Halloween! This week the kids celebrate with a high brow/low brow double feature of David Cronenberg and Frank Henenlotter. CRONENLOTTER! They watch Naked Lunch (1991) and Brain Damage (1988).

From wiki: “Naked Lunch is a 1991 surrealist science fiction drama film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, and Roy Scheider. It is an adaptation of William S. Burroughs' 1959 novel of the same name, and an international co-production of Canada, Britain, and Japan.

Brain Damage is a 1988 American comedy horror film written and directed by Frank Henenlotter.[2] It stars Rick Hearst in his debut acting role as Brian, a young man who becomes acquainted with a talking parasite known as Aylmer (voiced by John Zacherle) that injects him with an addictive fluid that causes euphoric hallucinations; in return, Aylmer demands that Brian allow him to feed on the brains of other humans.

But also: panic attacks and health scares, getting high at the movies, pumpkin patches, Army of Darkness, Demons, Rob Zombie’s House of 1000 Corpses, Video Drome, Dead Ringers, Arrebato, Babylon, William S. Burroughs, beatniks, Kerouac, The French Connection, Kids in the Hall, and more!

NEXT WEEK: A Dark Song (2016)

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