Galaxy of Terror (1981)
Oct 19, 2002Enigmatic Alien Planet
An Alien copy produced by Roger Corman that creates a constantly eerie atmosphere in between the usual slime-drooling monster attacks. With production design by a then unknown James Cameron
Grace Zabriskie
Rampage (1987)
Aug 14, 1999Serial Killer Courtroom Thriller
Overlooked film from William Friedkin in which Michael Biehn as a lawyer prosecuting a serial killer. Not without some effective horror moments but Friedkin is more interested in examining the legal justification for the death penalty
Megaville (1990)
Jun 18, 2020Dystopian Future
Little-known SF film with Billy Zane in a dystopian future involving Virtual Reality tech and implanted memories. Like Total Recall rewritten as an episode of Miami Vice
Twin Peaks (1990)
May 5, 2003Smalltown Weirdness/Murder Mystery
David Lynch's dive into the dark underbelly of smalltown weirdness became the cult tv series of the 1990s. This is the slightly re-edited pilot issued for theatrical release internationally, which offers an ungainly wrap-up to the proceedings
Wild at Heart (1990)
May 22, 2001Surreal Disturbed Road Movie
One of David Lynch's finest films, with lovers Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern on the run in a road movie that travels through deranged places of the mind and explodes with crazy energy
Child’s Play 2 (1990)
Jun 9, 2003Possessed Doll
The first Child's Play felt like an incredibly silly film. However, this first sequel takes the same elements and constructs them into a much tighter, better package
Servants of Twilight (1991)
Mar 23, 2001Pursuit by Crazed Cultists/Dean R. Koontz Adaptation
Dean R. Koontz adaptation with Bruce Greenwood as a private detective drawn into helping a woman protect her child from crazed cultists that believe he is the Antichrist
Ambition (1991)
Jun 10, 2002Writer Manipulates Serial Killer
Thriller with Lou Diamond Phillips as a writer who manipulates a paroled killer with the intention of driving him to kill again and writing a book about it
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992)
Nov 6, 1999Twin Peaks Prequel
David Lynch's cinematic prequel to his cult tv series critically divides people. Charting the last days of the doomed prom queen Laura Palmer, Sheryl Lee gives a tour-de-force performance
Ferngully: The Last Rainforest (1992)
Apr 4, 2010Environmentally Aware Animation
Animated film where fairies face the threat to their forest posed by a logging operation. Preachy message-making that is all but a recruitment film for Greenpeace and the Sierra Club
The Glow (2002)
Aug 20, 2019Sinister Health-Obsessed Seniors
This rehashes the basic set-up of Rosemary's Baby but with a spin where a couple move into the perfect apartment only to find their neighbours are health obsessed seniors with a sinister agenda
The Grudge (2004)
Dec 12, 2004Haunting/Japanese Horror Remake
The English-language remake of Ju-on: The Grudge, this has the good sense to retain the original's director Takashi Shimizu. The script makes more sense and Shimizu replicates the same eerie scares
Inland Empire (2006)
Aug 17, 2007Surrealism
David Lynch's last theatrical films and probably the most divided of Lynch's films. Another delve into cryptic surrealism that arrives at no clear plot destinations or clues about what is going on
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009)
Aug 27, 2012Madness and Matricide/True Story
As might be expected, a collaboration between Werner Herzog and David Lynch makes for an exceedingly strange film, involving matricide, mental illness and ostriches – and all apparently based on a true life murder. Very strange, if in the end it only produces a puzzled scratch of the head
Polaroid (2019)
Feb 14, 2023Cursed Camera
Horror film about a cursed Polaroid camera that kills everybody that appears in one of its photos
Cryptozoo (2021)
Sep 18, 2022Animation/Zoo for Cryptozoological Animals
Adult animated film set in a zoo for cryptozoological animals, this has a great premise and eye-poppingly psychedelic visuals