10 Horror Movies That Break The Genre
1. Mulholland Drive
David Lynch is one of the most famous film auteurs of all time, with some of his famous works including The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Eraserhead.
He revitalised his career in the early 2000s with a return to his surrealist roots in Mulholland Drive. The film is set in Los Angeles, and centres on a series of seemingly random story-lines - including a down-on-his-luck film director, Adam Kesher (Justin Thereoux), and the relationship between bright up and coming actress Betty Elms (Naomi Watts) and her mysterious new friend, whom she calls "Rita" (Laura Herring).
The film, like a lot of movies from the early 2000s (such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Memento), is a mysterious puzzle box of a movie that you don’t really fully understand until you finish watching it. And like a lot of Lynch’s works, it is beautiful, well-acted, and just plain weird.
Although it is ultimately a surreal mystery, it is also really damn scary. Lynch is an underrated master of horror, with many sequences in his landmark 90s television series Twin Peaks being utterly terrifying. In particular, one sequence from Mulholland Drive stands out as being pure horror material.
A man tells his friend about a disturbing dream he had where he witnesses a horrible monster. Good thing stuff like that doesn't happen in real life, right? Wrong. Oh so very wrong.