David Lynch’s 22 Strangest ‘Otherworld’ Characters
11. Edric, The Guild Navigator: Dune
Navigators, who the spice has mutated over four thousand years, use the orange spice gas, which gives them the ability to fold space. Lynchs adaptation of Frank Herberts Dune is certainly flawed, but it contains many moments of outstanding visual beauty and ugliness. While its science fictional setting could lead to the conclusion that every character is otherworldly, one stands out as particularly removed from the norm: Edric, The Guild Navigator. Edric has the ability to fold space with its mind due to its consumption of mass quantities of the drug spice, and its appearance in Dune is perhaps the most shocking moment of the film. It is a vast slug-like creature, resembling a heavily malformed foetus, housed in a moving glass case. It speaks to Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV (José Ferrer) with the same otherworldly knowledge that defines so many others in this list knowledge granted by the spice, and paid for with the depreciation of its human form.
