12 Sci-Fi Movies That NOBODY Understands

If ever there was a book which couldn’t be filmed, it would be Beat scribe William S Burrough’s hallucinatory sort-of-biography sort-of-confessional sort-of-satirical-detective novel Naked Lunch. And if ever there were a director able to film the unfilmable, it would be the auteur behind sci-fi horror masterpieces like The Brood and The Fly.

So it came to pass that, in 1996, Cronenberg endeavoured to translate Burrough’s drug-addled trip into his own shattered psyche onto film, and the resulting flick became a cult classic. Filled with unforgettable imagery and a surreal atmosphere, this film defies genre classification let alone any explanation, but it’s nonetheless a funny, scary, and even occasionally (somewhat) poignant tribute to the singular voice of a deranged, inimitable genius.