15 Most Underrated Movies Of The 90s

13. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me became an immediate punching bag when it released in 1992. The TV show ended its immensely popular run on a cliffhanger, leaving fans to yearn for answers to the questions Season 2 posed - questions which the follow-up feature film failed to answer in any shape or form.

Not only that, but the movie actively made the mythology even more fractured and abstract, all the while transforming the overall tone into something far nastier. Wacky asides and good, old-fashioned police officers obsessed with coffee were replaced with torture and the corruption of youth, all played out against one of the most haunting environments David Lynch has ever produced (and that's saying something).

As a pure horror film, Fire Walk With Me is outstanding. Every Killer BOB appearance makes your skin crawl, while imaginative scenes, like one in a blisteringly loud nightclub, where language is drowned out to the point where the story is advanced purely through subtitles, creep you out by attacking the senses in ways few other genre movies are capable of.

[Josh Brown]

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