Lynch carefully constructs a baffling non-linear Hollywood story about...well...I'm not entirely clear what it was about. Two women played by Naomi Watts & Laura Harring get wrapped up into the murky and menacing world that seems to want to swallow them whole. Meanwhile a troubled film director gets beaten up by Billy Ray Cyrus and may or may not know of these two women. As much sense as this film doesn't make, there's something deep within the subconscious that joins it all together to make it work like a charm.
Merging many of Hitchcock's techniques with traces of Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, Lynch creates a nightmarish dreamscape that is difficult to shake off. It is phantasmagoria at it's finest and holds a place at the top of my list as one of the scariest films I've ever seen.
5 red lampshades out of 5
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