Having watched Fire Walk With Me, Lost Highway, and Muholland Drive over the course of the last week, I felt like I needed a bit of a break before taking on Inland Empire.
We signed up for a month’s worth of Peacock to watch some Olympics stuff (I could not care less but the rest of the family is interested), so I was scrolling through their horror movie offerings. I was pleasantly surprised to find they have a pretty decent catalog.
So I watched Abigail and it is exactly what I was looking for. Fun, kinda dumb, and very low-stakes, but well-assembled and decently gruesome.
As for the Lynch movies, this is the first time I have actually sat through Fire Walk With Me and the first time I have seen the other two since they originally came out. I need some more time to fully think through all of them, but Lost Highway is probably the best actual movie of the bunch; I just wish there were not so much about it that screams “Hey look! It’s the 1990s!”
I think the overall look and feel of Mulholland Drive is more polished but it felt looser and more unintentionally disjointed, perhaps due to its origin as a TV series. I also felt like the nudity required of the two leads seemed gratuitous.
As for Fire Walk With Me, my initial sense is that it is an unnecessary mess. I am aware that critics have been reassessing it in recent years and its reputation has improved drastically over the scathing reviews upon its release. However, I was not at all impressed by the movie.