10 Seriously Weird Sci-Fi Movies That Deserve Your Attention

What do you get when you combine the drug-fueled escapades of a William S. Burroughs novel with the body horror and obscure imagery of a David Cronenberg film? That would, of course, be Naked Lunch, which is arguably one of the strangest movies ever made of any genre.

The movie opens with an exterminator who doesn't kill bugs so much as he follows a philosophy to "exterminate all rational thought." His wife isn't the most normal person either, as she injects insecticide to get high, but insecticide might just be an allegory for heroin, and when the guy gets picked up by the cops, they have a giant roach interrogate him.

Elements of this movie are somewhat close allusions to Kafka's Metamorphosis mixed in with a little Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and John Carpenter's The Thing. Naked Lunch continues to get stranger the more you watch, which makes you want to watch it even more. Frankly, it defies explanation, and more than a few viewers were confused by what they saw.

Cronenberg once said, "It's impossible to make a movie out of Naked Lunch. A literal translation just wouldn't work. It would cost $400 million to make and would be banned in every country in the world." Despite this, he made the movie, but he did so by combining his writing with Burroughs', and while it is disturbing in parts and confusing in others, it's strangely well made and fascinating to behold.