10 Most Disturbing Twin Peaks Moments

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me was, at the time of release, a failure. Audiences hoped the movie would pick up the cliffhanger ending of the series and reveal Cooper’s fate. Instead, Lynch made a prequel, focusing on the last seven days of Laura Palmer, leading to the horrific murder of Twin Peaks beloved but troubled beauty queen. The film featured a more recognisable cast, with David Bowie as Phillip Jeffries, Chris Isaac as Special Agent Chester Desmond and a young Kiefer Sutherland. The final ten minutes of the film are deeply moving, showing the audience the abject horror that Laura Palmer suffered.

Dragged to an abandoned train carriage, Laura and Ronette Pulaski are bound by Leland Palmer, possessed by the spirit of killer BOB. While a guardian angel mysteriously appears and frees Ronette, Laura’s fate is sealed when Mike, BOB’s former ally and spirit now possessing the body of Phillip Gerard, throws a ring with a symbol of an owl upon it into the carriage to Laura, allowing her access to the White Lodge after her death.

Sheryl Lee gives a chilling performance, her eyes wide with terror, as her father brutally ends her life. Lynch wants the audience to witness the suffering of Laura, in an almost quasi-religious sacrifice for the sake of the story. The scene makes for very uncomfortable watching; Lee is spellbinding as the doomed Palmer, her expressive eyes and ear-piercing scream are hard to watch yet harder to forget.