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Creepiest David Lynch thing
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It wouldn't be the same, cause Lynchian horror is about having that stuff exist within really mundane places. it's not about the contrasts between cherry pie and demons but moreso the realisation that it was always hidden from view in the places and things you see everyday. It's just around the corner, hidden beneath the grass and picket fences
The Twinkie's bum is probably the best one but also how in that one Twin Peaks episode where Frank Silva was just hanging out in the corner of Mrs Palmer's room and BOB was born
I've tried multiple times to make it through Eraserhead and have never managed it. Just a downer film from beginning to end.
Don't mind at all. The other two are Nightmare on Elm Street 1 (the scene with Johnny Depp's death really messed me up and traumatized me) and The Blob 1988 (still can't watch it through to this day).
This image still lives in my mind. That and Cooper in the mirror (How's Annie).
I mean BOB and the doppelgängers? It doesn't get any scary than that. The Black Lodge is the creepiest fucking thing committed to any medium ever.
Lost Highway is a close second for me. I remember Bill Pullman was on Conan promoting the film and they played the phone clip. Definitely had trouble going to sleep that night.
I don't get people saying the Mullholand Drive scene. It's good for a jump scare, but in my opinion is really goofy looking.
Mystery Man:
We've met before, haven't we.
Fred Madison:
I don't think so. Where was it you think we met?
Mystery Man:
At your house. Don't you remember?
Fred Madison:
No. No, I don't. Are you sure?
Mystery Man:
Of course.
As a matter of fact,
I'm
there
right
now.
We've met before, haven't we.
Fred Madison:
I don't think so. Where was it you think we met?
Mystery Man:
At your house. Don't you remember?
Fred Madison:
No. No, I don't. Are you sure?
Mystery Man:
Of course.
As a matter of fact,
I'm
there
right
now.
I don't really have a creepiest moment. Not a single moment.
My "creepiest moment is Dale Cooper's mind being forced into a tupla that for a long time he cannot truly control.
That you can watch through an extract replica of you and watch them act unlike you is a terrifying thought to me.
Add to that BOB is controlling Cope's actual body and it makes it even worse. Both his physical body and his mind are without agency.
My "creepiest moment is Dale Cooper's mind being forced into a tupla that for a long time he cannot truly control.
That you can watch through an extract replica of you and watch them act unlike you is a terrifying thought to me.
Add to that BOB is controlling Cope's actual body and it makes it even worse. Both his physical body and his mind are without agency.
It's also not just the baby, it's the… everything. The soundscape, the surrealist nonsense where every scene invites interpretation and the bizarre and horrifying jumps to relative normalcy, where you have the chance as a view to anchor yourself, before then snapping you back to something truly hideous.
Eraserhead is the closest movie I've seen to a nightmare come to life. And it's one of a small handful of movies I've seen that genuinely feels disturbing and even almost oppressive to watch, which I have to admire cause that's what it was setting out to do. As a technical achievement and if the ultimate goal of art is to evoke a lasting emotional reaction in the audience, it might actually be the greatest movie ever made, cause it's maybe the only fairly prominent one at least that I've seen that I'm in no hurry to rewatch.
I watched all the Twin Peaks stuff, Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive and Blue Velvet and imo Eraserhead is the most unsettling one due to the body horror and the weird way everybody behaves
Ofc Twin Peaks & Blue Velvet have some scenes of actual violence and that was more unsettling than the surreal stuff to me as they get kinda too atmospheric dunno. Now to think of it Twin Peaks' season 2 and 3 endings are specially haunting too.
Gonna eventually watch other stuff people mentioned
Ofc Twin Peaks & Blue Velvet have some scenes of actual violence and that was more unsettling than the surreal stuff to me as they get kinda too atmospheric dunno. Now to think of it Twin Peaks' season 2 and 3 endings are specially haunting too.
Gonna eventually watch other stuff people mentioned
Interesting, it just seemed like he was a well-intentioned messenger to me
sometimes I just search for this to look at it. It just unsettles me from head to toe. The angle, lighting, bone structure on this man. All engineered to heebie my jeebies.
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Specifically 9:20 to the end, how Betty just disappears...the meek "donde estas?" kills me every time
It really applies to all of Lynch's work but Eraserhead is the only one that's stuck with me, like, psychically. I'm pretty sure that movie actually had an indelible subconscious impact on me, for good or ill.
This bit from Mulholland Drive always upsets my brain in a lot of ways.
And then later when they're crawling under the door.
And then later when they're crawling under the door.
Yeah the last ~40 seconds are deeply unsettling/disturbingThis bit from Mulholland Drive always upsets my brain in a lot of ways.
And then later when they're crawling under the door.
I agree with Nightmare 1. Haven't seen The Blob and I'm in a "lose sleep over scares" mood so I'm checking this out tonight. Thank you for sharing!
probably because of overall context and setting of twin peaks, i always found bob's appearances to be super corny as opposed to creepy or unnerving.
my vote is for someone legitimately sinister:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZowK0NAvig
my vote is for someone legitimately sinister:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZowK0NAvig