Lynch's darkest hour. This pitch black riff on the Twin Peaks
television series destroys a TV set in the opening credits and takes
most of its original audience with it. Lynch clearly enjoyed exposing
the nasty, explicit final days of Laura Palmer, implementing
profanity and violence that no TV show could advocate. It borders on the
esoteric but also contains some of the scariest moments ever put on
film. It may or may not stand alone without the series, but it's not the
failure that many claimed - more like an unremittingly misanthropic
slant on a pop culture phenomenon.
