All 10 David Lynch Movies Ranked By Weirdness

Twin Peaks the T.V. show is the spiritual successor to Blue Velvet. Not just because it follows a now more adult Kyle Maclachlan solving another smalltown mystery, but because we get to go deeper into a new nightmarish underworld that lies beneath the suburban idyll.

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me serves as the prequel to the T.V. show. It details Laura Palmer’s (Sheryl Lee) descent into a world of drugs and prostitution before her murder at the hands of her deranged father, Leland (Ray Wise).

Featuring a host of iconic characters from the T.V. show, from the malevolent BOB to the ever-dancing dwarf The Man from Another Place, those unfamiliar with Twin Peaks are going to be baffled fairly quickly. The opening half an hour is full of quirky Lynchian comedy - a dancing clown lady, F.B.I. agents played by famous musicians, and Lynch himself shouting away.

But aside from this, Lynch tells a surprisingly serious story of a teenage girl spiralling towards her tragic end, her living nightmare and self-destruction caused by her abusive father.

Weirdest Bit: Agent Cooper can somehow see himself in a different room on a C.C.T.V screen, which, never explained, leads into David Bowie’s cameo scene where he speaks in distressed riddles whilst nightmarish imagery of masked figures flash across the screen. Then the title credits!