10 Most Messed Up Horror Movie Monsters

David Lynch is a filmmaker with an uncanny ability to create dreamlike movies. He’s also a filmmaker for whom duality is a recurring theme - light/dark, fantasy/reality, sex/death. It stands to reason then that just as dreams pervade the Lynchian world, so to do nightmares.

In Mulholland Drive there is a “man out back” behind Winkies who haunts an unnamed character’s dreams. In the movie’s most terrifying moment we come face to face with the “man out back”. We see him for about a second before he disappears back from whence he came.

Lynch sets up this encounter by informing the viewer that whatever is behind Winkies is more terrifying than we could ever handle. He makes good on this promise by having the nightmare man instantly collapse with fright at the appearance of the “man out back”.

We viewers are similarly shocked because we simply do not know what we are looking at when this creature appears, nor do we have time to process it. Was it some sort of witch? Was it male or female? Was it human at all?

In those fleeting moments, even in broad daylight, all we can know is the leering face of pitch black horror.