Haha, or worse is when you turn up the volume to hear the dialogue between the two characters, then a second later her face pops up accompanied by a loud noise, after about 20 minutes of silence.
I remember the "face" scene to every very detail. It was night, me and my friend had decided to see this new Lynch movie ( as we are both Lynch fans ) on my 42" TV sitting 1.5 meters away from the television. Let`s not forget my two blasting speakers which I had turned on to max volume. And the BOOM. The face. THAT FUCKING FACE. I screamed and closed my eyes swearing to never open them again. My friend was paralyzed and started shaking and fell down to the ground. It took weeks to wash off.
First time I saw the scene in the dark corridor, with the 'phantom'/original polish husband getting the scary Laura Dern face over his like that it scared the absolute SHIT out of me. No kidding. The hair on my neck stood up.
I have seen this film a bunch of times, but the one part where the main Actress is moving all slow, and then speeds up real fast with this crazy look on her face always scares the hell out of me. It's almost so unexpected it catches you by surprise everytime. But by far the most messed up part imo, is the end when the bunny suit comes off and its this weird alien thing and she is shooting it. It is more freaky trying to figure out Why it is so freaky, like an extra level of mind fuck.
@CommentWheel the thing she shot was the phantom, and i dont think the bunnies are costumes, but the phantom was, what im geusing, representing all of her troubles since after she killed it everything was ok, and a side note: i think when she shoots the phantom and it turns into the smiley face of herself, i think it resembles her lust for fame
This is one of the best movies I have ever seen, and still holds 'the scariest movie I have ever seen' title. The music is great, and in a way I feel this movie incorporates his previous works into one great film. I saw a lot of red drape scenes, and of course, at the end we see a log, I can't help but think log lady. Anyway, if I watch this movie alone at 2AM, there is no chance I am going to fall asleep until the Sun is up. I will never look at a lamp or think of a hallway the same way again.
I own all his movies and series on DVD, and I've got to say, official copies of Inland Empire and Lost Highway are amongst my most prized possessions.
I think Inland Empire is my favorite Lynch movie in a few different ways. This movie captures so many bizarre sensations and aesthetic concepts. Most of the movie, for me, captures not only the feeling of a long, winding nightmare, but that of a dead silent, snow covered Winter's night, gravid with dread.
A nightmare! That's what this movie reminds me of! Mostly because, well, holy shit this is freaky. Almost like The Shining. That movie was FUCKING SCARY! These all remind me of the scene where the wife walks up the stairs near the end and sees the dog-man giving oral to the other guy. AGHGHGHGHGH!
I wonder why no one ever used that fucked-up Laura Dern face for a screamer vid lol. That shit popping up and screaming at me would certainly make me jump back out of my seat lol.
Lynch`s film enhance my life they transport from you the mundane and repetitive to a more strange otherwordly dreamlike reality. Lynch opens these doors in the mind and pushes you right in there, like all the best films and music should do.
some of the characters faces in this video remind me of soundgarden's video for "black hole sun". mesmerizing in a strange way, especially that elderly woman @ 3:12
I really disliked this movie. I like lost highway, but watching this, it was just too much of the main actress showing her face as if shes freaked out. I think Lynch is like in love with this actress because he just emphasizes her so much in the movie, and yet her face shots are so boring. I am not sure if it's because I was stoned but i was really bored with the way it was shot. I couldn't even finish it, I gave up at 1:40.
It took a few viewings of this film for me to finally realize that this is Lynch's very best film. Not my personal favorite, but for sure his best film. Seems everything he's ever tried to say with his films can be seen and heard here so beautifully and maniacally. I feel lucky to be a Lynch fan.
INLAND EMPIRE is David's jewel. All the subjects and faces of his previous come crashing down onto Laura Dern's head. I think this film will become a classic in the future; despite its overlong running time; it's just a fantastic study of the self. Probably one of my favorite three Lynch movies!
i loovve this movie!!! and i LOVE david lynch! Amazing!! just amazing!!! i didn't understand the film very well, but i love it! and i agree with the person below that said that face freaked the shit out of them! it did me too!! it was a scary strange mind-bending movei! just like i like it!! but one thing--what is with the rabbits?? lol
Omg, 2:07 is the most scary picture ever. I saw the movie yesterday, and that picture will never escape my mind. Seriously, that was the most scary film scene i've ever seen.
But the movie is still fantastic, very complicated, but yet not random as somebody says here. Watch it a couple of times or read some of the theories on the internet, and you'll see.
I am currently out of THE VORTEX ZONE and stuck inside the rooms of horror inside the Inland Empire. I'm only half way through the movie for the second time, high on coffee, and can't wait to watch it all again and see what happens to Nicky and the hot chicks who smoke cigs and "Do the Locomotion" - Best Lynch Movie ever made is inside my computer and waiting for me to make a visit to the alley.
i agree...uncool..there is a long journey that MUST take place before you should EVER be able to see, feel or possibly understand what that image represents.
c'est pas du cinéma, c'est de l'hynose... C'est le chaos du flux... au spectateur de raison garder pour bâtir du sens et retrouver la route du devenir dans ce monde-labyrinthe lychéen... il faut être un peu chat... se laisser nourrir par le meilleur du cinéma, trouver la ligne de fuite en forme de bouche d'aération, ne pas se laisser mener par le bout du nez...et...retomber sur ses pattes... comme l'héroïne du scénario! Trop malines ces héroïnes lychéennes!
Yeah the image of Susan's face distorted in this film is an image that I will never forget. Seeing this in the theatre was amazing and when that image came on screen I was terrified. One of my favorite movies and other than Eraserhead, I feel it is Lynch's most personal. It's maybe the film he's always wanted to make. It's so out there but there is something behind all the manicness of the film.
jpom, nice final comment, with which I totally agree. I've always maintained about his surreal work, that even though you don't fathmo the logic of it (maybe you neve really do), something still resonates deep inside you when you experience the film in full. It's ironic I find it MOST evident in this, undoubtedly his most out-there. It's almost as though the less logic there is, the more that underlying theme, whatever it is, is allowed to resonate
@Skyfel Yes, this distorted face looks worse when you see the movie and you are prepared to sleep and suddenly appears...WHAT THE FUCK is going there??? Hahaha
For me, this film was like stepping into the outer limits, and going into another dimension! I loved it! And this is a great tribute to the film, Particell! It's better than LSD... talk about "a trip"!!!!
Man, wow, what a bender this one must be - I have to get this DVD. Yo no comprendo por qué es considerado tan raro y extraño para un norteamericano para tener una sensibilidad cinemática europea.
buena pregunta, yo me he descargado la banda sonora de la película pero no venía, la verdad es que es una canción increible, si consigo el nombre y el grupo te lo pondré aquí.
haciendo pesquisas por la red he descubierto que la canción se llama ghost of love, fue compuesta e interpretada por el propio David Lynch, a ver si te sirve de ayuda para encontrarla
Will someone please tell me the NAME of this film. I have beem searching for unusual music, & i got this video. By the sound of some of you posters, this film sounds appetising. I enjoy watching films that really make a person think.
Is there any English-mothertongue who could please write down the LYRICS being sung in this soundtrack? I can understand very little, only "strange" being repeated and few other words like "love", but I am not sure...
David Lynch's visuals are breathtaking. INLAND EMPIRE is my absolute favourite work from him. I love what you've done with this video. It brings me back into that surreal world every time! Great job on this collection of screenshots! =D
I'm incredibly obsessed with this movie. I watched in alone in my room at night and it totally freaked me out. I suppose ol David wouldn't approve of the fact that I watched it on my laptop. I'm weird in that I can be completely engrossed in and entertained by stuff I don't understand at all. Like drareg7777 said, "maybe I'm retarded."
This film communicates to you through emotions/reactions its images produce in you.
I got a really strong feeling of the "curse" of the (fictional) script (the one within the film). I feel that this film put us directly INTO the mind of a person that is experiencing the curse of the fictional film: menace, paranoia, dread, confusion, despair, fragmentation of reality and personality. Lynch made Us experience DIRECTLY what the main character was experiencing under this "curse".
yes! this film operated so deeply on my nervous system that it completely bypassed my need to "get it," and i just squirmed through it, in awe of lynch's power
I wouldn't hesitate to say the photography in Inland Empire is beyond anything I've ever seen. Lots of people will say it's the worst because it's shaky and out of focus, I think that's what's great about it. The close ups on Laura's face are the best where she slowly turns her face to the side and her nose seems to swell up or something. It's just all amazing and so tripy.
I see what you're getting at fiveMIRrOrs. But as a Uni Media student I love to analyse films to hell. I saw this last night; excellent stuff. But I'm gonna watch it again until, like Donnie Darko, I know it like the back of my hand..
Lynch's movies are great because he never talks about what the movies mean to him in interviews, so they're all up to interpretation. There are, for example, a great many interpretations of Eraserhead. Some say it's a movie about sin and forgiveness, others of the perils of parenthood, etc...
i hated that moment. seriously. i can't even stand the mere sight of a single frame of it. it just popped in front of my eyes like a 3 second nightmare.
David Lynch makes films that are after your guts and thats probably why we're ok with apparent lack of cohesion.Its like hes only interested in our subconsciousness,or at the very least putting his subconscious on the screen.Its then up to us to either connect with it or not,and I found that I connected with it in a very passive way;the imagery came easily to me and I understood the tone of the scene even if I didnt totally understand the specifics of what was going on.
I wouldn't call it one of the greatest films of all time. Lynch has only made a handful of masterpeices. I find Inland empire to be in the "just another lynch movie" section. Every director has at least one movie in that category. David lynch has a few. It is still a pretty good movie though
what i meant was. Not every director has "just another lynch movie" in there collection. if you take the word lynch out and replace it with another director, That is what i meant
I agree with all your pics of his amazing movies. I think Mulholland drive and lost Highway were my favorite. I also liked Twin Peaks allot too though. I havnt sen Inland Emprie yet except for the bunnie scenes. I shall have to watch the rest and judge it for myself. Did you like Eraser head. That was his first and creapiest I think.
If only he'd shot on higher quality DV. I know if he'd gone all the way and shot it on film then he couldn't have got the performances he did from the actors, but one of the many reasons Lynch's films are so wonderful is the beauty of his visuals underpinning the disturbed, ugly horror and weirdness.
Although the lo quality DV does bring the viewer 'closer' to the actors (in the same way home videos do),which was perhaps one of the things Lynch wanted. With scenes such as the early script reading between Dern and Theroux in this film and also the one between Watts and the leathery old actor in Mulholland (can't recall his name),part of the point is to make the audience aware that we're watching actors act (and what a convincing illusion they create. '¡No hay banda!' it is just an illusion).
So maybe I'm undermining my own criticism here but it's often overshadowed by Lynch's surrealism (in the truest sense), sex and violence and weird(ness) on top, that his films are a rare beacon of beauty outside of the European film scene.
Pretty much any of his other films are packed with beautiful scenes and imagery-except maybe Dune-and apart from IE beautifully lit and shot throughout. The Elephant Man is astonishing. As is Blue Velvet or The Staight Story. Mulholland Dr is frequently breath-taking. Even when his films are difficult or impossible to understand on a literal level-Lost Highway-they've still got a visceral beauty unlike any other films.
Unless, of course, you think 'beautiful' and 'pretty' are the same thing.
You remember Donnie Darko - the one with Jake Gylenhaal in it? There is an appearance of a creepy-looking bunny man. Directed by Richard Kelly, this movie's happened to be like a Lynch movie with teens. With the appearance of three creepy bunnies in INLAND EMPIRE, it looked like a full circle here
With the red lamp... do you remember Twin Peaks: A Fire Walk With Me? And how he kept cutting to the ceiling fan @ the top of the stairs? (I believe it was like that) Something about the static in the air brought about impending doom. The color red is a little more helpful in this area with the lamp coupled with the bunny's palate turning red of all a sudden with the one bunny holding up two (Flares?).
maybe. I am watching the film over and over and taking notes and stuff like that. I am making a website that should be up soon and I do in depth analysis' for films like Eraserhead, or Dr. strangelove. This one came as a challenge.
I thought the little girl and the little boy is Laura Dern and J. Theoreoux? Remember how she said about the house in the woods and the shocking image of Laura Dern hopping down the path? And the red lamp could have a number of meanings just like anything else...
one thing I noticed is that scene with the man in the green suit asking for the time, the rabbits talk about that later in the film and the women at the beginning mentions that same time
i didn't love the movie. I am just a big fan of lynch. i just don't get what you mean by funny. David lynch doesn't mean for them to be comedies. Some of them are pretty funny. Like eraserhead or Wild at Heart
i thought some parts of Muholland Drive were very funny. I'm trying to think of an example but there are so many. Like that scene where the guy is freaking out about the expresso and everyone just acts really nervous. Or the scene at Winkie's the restaurant, where the guy is talking about his dream. I liked that movie because the characters, although unusual, actually carried on dialog and there some resemblance on a plot. They weren't just mumbling to themselves, smearing crap on the walls.
i liked mullholland dr. for it's slight sense of humor and horror. I also like it because it is the david lynch film with the most dream logic. And it was more gripping. Inland Empire was a little slow paced and hard to enjoy. Overall Eraserhead is his best film
There is so much more to interpret besides those bunny people. for example, that women at the beginings old tale about the little girl and boy. I also don't understand the red lamp.
Really good point. And remember when the bunnies are talking, and the one who is Nicky (Laura Dern's character) says something about "it has something to do with red." Hypnotists use triggers to set their victims into a trance, and considering how the Phantom has a red light bulb in his mouth and there are red lights in nearly every scene where Nicky is experiencing her psychosis and first sees the hookers, maybe the RED LIGHT (like 'red light' district?) has something to do with her condition.
In every David Lynch's movie, stages are a symbol for the life. In Eraserhead, the chipmunk woman (death), sings "in heaven everything is fine" on a stage. Suicide is a solution. In Mulholand Drive, the magician on the stage says "no hay banda". Life is an illusion. In inland empire, there are these bunnies. I don't know the exact meaning, but i have a clue that is something related to us being massive reproducers, watching passively our lifes on tv.
Also when we view a David Lynch film or any film for that matter it is a personal experience. We are the other presence in viewing the film when we are experience. We are there everpresent throughout the whole viewing. David Lynch acknowledges this probably more severely than other directors.
Wanna know what i thinks really disturbing in the movie? THREE bunnies in a room and FOUR shadows in the wall behind them. When i saw the the scene that shows Dern's distorted face, i've shit myself.
You know how I intrepreted that nintyceo? I thought it meant with the four bunny shadows is that there was a bunny audience and we (as the viewer) are rabbits.
Good question because I was reading my comment earlier the other day. I guess is because, in this film anyways, and there could be many theories is that in that world it is how we exist. We live normally but are still entrapped in a place that we can't identify. In the Rabbits segment that is what we look like, therefore are we to assume that it is not only the actors who are rabbits but the audience as well? When we see actors on stage today they are humans in our world are they not?
it is a thought, this whole movie is done very strangely but great, it could mean a lot of things, hell, it might just be the lighting that caused it but I doubt it.
dammit when laura dern is running through the forest at night and comes up to the camera. BOOM BABY
rayMESHUGGAHban 1 month ago
@rayMESHUGGAHban that fucked my shit up for weeks
SimpleMachineMusic 1 month ago
Haha, or worse is when you turn up the volume to hear the dialogue between the two characters, then a second later her face pops up accompanied by a loud noise, after about 20 minutes of silence.
Disembowelment 2 months ago
Love the shot at 3:00. Favourite shot in the whole film. Artistically magnificent.
SOUTHERNvisionMOVIES 6 months ago
brutal fucking murder
BishopOcelot 7 months ago 4
I remember the "face" scene to every very detail. It was night, me and my friend had decided to see this new Lynch movie ( as we are both Lynch fans ) on my 42" TV sitting 1.5 meters away from the television. Let`s not forget my two blasting speakers which I had turned on to max volume. And the BOOM. The face. THAT FUCKING FACE. I screamed and closed my eyes swearing to never open them again. My friend was paralyzed and started shaking and fell down to the ground. It took weeks to wash off.
christoffer323 7 months ago 4
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christoffer323 7 months ago
Beyond any doubt the best and most complicated movie ever, and it will be for decades, at least.
Thanks for sharing this beauty.
XaveriusVossius 8 months ago
2:06. So hot I jizzed in my pants.
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bass109 11 months ago
3:41 i demand to know what is that?
Imahdum666 1 year ago
First time I saw the scene in the dark corridor, with the 'phantom'/original polish husband getting the scary Laura Dern face over his like that it scared the absolute SHIT out of me. No kidding. The hair on my neck stood up.
DistantJ 1 year ago
9 justin bieber fans were watching this video!!!!
ManfredSupertyp 1 year ago
Me tienta verla por el yuri pero esa cara me perturbó demasiado.
GABRIO4 1 year ago
what scene is 2:05 from??
oucy 1 year ago
3:40 - i dont even want to know how he did that. all i know is, thats what the devil actually looks like if he exists
greggarypeccary1 1 year ago
VERY NICE :)
dvirub 1 year ago
Where are the paper towels? 2:24
iberollin 1 year ago
"..You dyin, lady."
BruisedEyeSockets 1 year ago
I have seen this film a bunch of times, but the one part where the main Actress is moving all slow, and then speeds up real fast with this crazy look on her face always scares the hell out of me. It's almost so unexpected it catches you by surprise everytime. But by far the most messed up part imo, is the end when the bunny suit comes off and its this weird alien thing and she is shooting it. It is more freaky trying to figure out Why it is so freaky, like an extra level of mind fuck.
CommentWheel 1 year ago
@CommentWheel the thing she shot was the phantom, and i dont think the bunnies are costumes, but the phantom was, what im geusing, representing all of her troubles since after she killed it everything was ok, and a side note: i think when she shoots the phantom and it turns into the smiley face of herself, i think it resembles her lust for fame
sodabull123 10 months ago
This is one of the best movies I have ever seen, and still holds 'the scariest movie I have ever seen' title. The music is great, and in a way I feel this movie incorporates his previous works into one great film. I saw a lot of red drape scenes, and of course, at the end we see a log, I can't help but think log lady. Anyway, if I watch this movie alone at 2AM, there is no chance I am going to fall asleep until the Sun is up. I will never look at a lamp or think of a hallway the same way again.
CommentWheel 1 year ago
Inland Empire is his most unique movie in my opinion. nothing else is even remotely similar to this.
theillfrisch 1 year ago 2
i'd fuck laura dern, she's hot
robotophobia 1 year ago 2
2:08 creepiest face I have ever seen lol
Heazzen 2 years ago 3
I own all his movies and series on DVD, and I've got to say, official copies of Inland Empire and Lost Highway are amongst my most prized possessions.
heysatan8 2 years ago 4
WOW! Laura Derns eyes at 3:18
tugster19 2 years ago
i love the music in the background, whats the name of the song????
irinaderevkko 2 years ago
It's called "Ghost of Love" and you can find it on the film's soundtrack :)
12AX74Life 2 years ago
To be honest, I am not a big fan of Lynch as to me the way he tries to make a film out of some surreal images.
But wow. Those images really freak me out. And I don't get freaked out by ANY horror film except for a handful.
GunGraveTZA 2 years ago
the winner is lynch :P
MarauderU 2 years ago
I think Inland Empire is my favorite Lynch movie in a few different ways. This movie captures so many bizarre sensations and aesthetic concepts. Most of the movie, for me, captures not only the feeling of a long, winding nightmare, but that of a dead silent, snow covered Winter's night, gravid with dread.
Ccomaffayod 2 years ago
A nightmare! That's what this movie reminds me of! Mostly because, well, holy shit this is freaky. Almost like The Shining. That movie was FUCKING SCARY! These all remind me of the scene where the wife walks up the stairs near the end and sees the dog-man giving oral to the other guy. AGHGHGHGHGH!
tylerlouisohyeah 2 years ago
I wonder why no one ever used that fucked-up Laura Dern face for a screamer vid lol. That shit popping up and screaming at me would certainly make me jump back out of my seat lol.
zyphoid666 2 years ago 19
i think that lost highway is better than inland empire
MarauderU 2 years ago
same here. I had a bit of a hard time with the roughness of the DV. But that might have been cause the website I saw it on was in such low res.
lordkelvin1 2 years ago
i think mulholland drive is better than inland empire
Sandbag209 2 years ago 2
agreed...
MarauderU 2 years ago
Lynch`s film enhance my life they transport from you the mundane and repetitive to a more strange otherwordly dreamlike reality. Lynch opens these doors in the mind and pushes you right in there, like all the best films and music should do.
7lartceps 2 years ago 2
I agree. He is my favorite filmaker.....and this IS his masterpiece!!!!!!!
redheadundead 2 years ago 5
Brilliant film.
nasalscarecrow 2 years ago 2
I saw the film at the IFC theater, here in New York.
It had been playing for nearly a month, and yet the theater was full... and not a single person walked out, despite the film's length.
spamjelly5 2 years ago
I rank it 4th for him behind Blue Velvet, Mulholland Dr, and Lost Highway
galarius 2 years ago
some of the characters faces in this video remind me of soundgarden's video for "black hole sun". mesmerizing in a strange way, especially that elderly woman @ 3:12
slaveoftheheart 2 years ago
te falto el cuadro de las manos, you forgot the painting with the hands on it
SABOTAJEAUDIOVISUAL 2 years ago
I really disliked this movie. I like lost highway, but watching this, it was just too much of the main actress showing her face as if shes freaked out. I think Lynch is like in love with this actress because he just emphasizes her so much in the movie, and yet her face shots are so boring. I am not sure if it's because I was stoned but i was really bored with the way it was shot. I couldn't even finish it, I gave up at 1:40.
mrno69 2 years ago
En el amor siempre hay algo de locura...
absurdalynch 2 years ago
this is fucked up:p
adiplexiglas 2 years ago
It took a few viewings of this film for me to finally realize that this is Lynch's very best film. Not my personal favorite, but for sure his best film. Seems everything he's ever tried to say with his films can be seen and heard here so beautifully and maniacally. I feel lucky to be a Lynch fan.
CocoaShunter 2 years ago 4
INLAND EMPIRE is David's jewel. All the subjects and faces of his previous come crashing down onto Laura Dern's head. I think this film will become a classic in the future; despite its overlong running time; it's just a fantastic study of the self. Probably one of my favorite three Lynch movies!
daddysevenpointfiver 2 years ago
I loved inland empire and that really awesome score
FREDDYHEAD20092010 2 years ago
i loovve this movie!!! and i LOVE david lynch! Amazing!! just amazing!!! i didn't understand the film very well, but i love it! and i agree with the person below that said that face freaked the shit out of them! it did me too!! it was a scary strange mind-bending movei! just like i like it!! but one thing--what is with the rabbits?? lol
Star28Gentian 2 years ago
So straaaange. Strangey-strangey-strange. Oh, David Lynch. He's straaaaange.
ribogok 2 years ago 3
Omg, 2:07 is the most scary picture ever. I saw the movie yesterday, and that picture will never escape my mind. Seriously, that was the most scary film scene i've ever seen.
But the movie is still fantastic, very complicated, but yet not random as somebody says here. Watch it a couple of times or read some of the theories on the internet, and you'll see.
coaster1000 2 years ago 6
My favorite line from the movie:"Why instigate a need to suffer?"
bijeto 2 years ago
Strange what loves does, indeed.
bijeto 2 years ago
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vertlondon 2 years ago
Amo esta pelicula! de quien es la rola?
yessbauhaus 3 years ago
I remember when I first saw THAT scene in the cinema... I was just frozen for three seconds and i could feel every hair on my body lifting up...
brajtnerinjo 3 years ago 3
I am currently out of THE VORTEX ZONE and stuck inside the rooms of horror inside the Inland Empire. I'm only half way through the movie for the second time, high on coffee, and can't wait to watch it all again and see what happens to Nicky and the hot chicks who smoke cigs and "Do the Locomotion" - Best Lynch Movie ever made is inside my computer and waiting for me to make a visit to the alley.
thevortexzone 3 years ago
way to make the most terrifying shot in any movie ever a joke by putting it int he middle of this video.
wyattpop 3 years ago 6
i agree...uncool..there is a long journey that MUST take place before you should EVER be able to see, feel or possibly understand what that image represents.
nice vid tho
4thbeast 3 years ago 5
c'est pas du cinéma, c'est de l'hynose... C'est le chaos du flux... au spectateur de raison garder pour bâtir du sens et retrouver la route du devenir dans ce monde-labyrinthe lychéen... il faut être un peu chat... se laisser nourrir par le meilleur du cinéma, trouver la ligne de fuite en forme de bouche d'aération, ne pas se laisser mener par le bout du nez...et...retomber sur ses pattes... comme l'héroïne du scénario! Trop malines ces héroïnes lychéennes!
lignedefuite 3 years ago
Yeah the image of Susan's face distorted in this film is an image that I will never forget. Seeing this in the theatre was amazing and when that image came on screen I was terrified. One of my favorite movies and other than Eraserhead, I feel it is Lynch's most personal. It's maybe the film he's always wanted to make. It's so out there but there is something behind all the manicness of the film.
jpom29 3 years ago 5
jpom, nice final comment, with which I totally agree. I've always maintained about his surreal work, that even though you don't fathmo the logic of it (maybe you neve really do), something still resonates deep inside you when you experience the film in full. It's ironic I find it MOST evident in this, undoubtedly his most out-there. It's almost as though the less logic there is, the more that underlying theme, whatever it is, is allowed to resonate
screwball82 3 years ago
David Lynch is a genius.
lizardale 3 years ago 3
Yikes... Susan's distorted face must be the creepiest thing I've EVER seen in a movie... somehow it's scary as shit.
Skyfel 3 years ago 30
@Skyfel Yes, this distorted face looks worse when you see the movie and you are prepared to sleep and suddenly appears...WHAT THE FUCK is going there??? Hahaha
LeonAmarantos 3 months ago
For me, this film was like stepping into the outer limits, and going into another dimension! I loved it! And this is a great tribute to the film, Particell! It's better than LSD... talk about "a trip"!!!!
Laurisa718 3 years ago
@ 2:07 - That's Count Smokula.
bapyou 3 years ago
I can't understand anything at all about this film, and that's just one of the many reasons I love this film SO much.
FamGuyGuy123 3 years ago 2
Man, wow, what a bender this one must be - I have to get this DVD. Yo no comprendo por qué es considerado tan raro y extraño para un norteamericano para tener una sensibilidad cinemática europea.
FulinYu 3 years ago
como se llama la cancion ?? de quien es ?
donde puedo conseguirla ?? jeje
sOnica90 3 years ago
buena pregunta, yo me he descargado la banda sonora de la película pero no venía, la verdad es que es una canción increible, si consigo el nombre y el grupo te lo pondré aquí.
alulara 3 years ago
y de donde te lo descargaste? porq yo no lo encuentro !!
sOnica90 3 years ago
pues creo que me la descargué en lphant o en emule, puse inland empire original soundtrack y me apareció
alulara 3 years ago
haciendo pesquisas por la red he descubierto que la canción se llama ghost of love, fue compuesta e interpretada por el propio David Lynch, a ver si te sirve de ayuda para encontrarla
alulara 3 years ago
you can watch inland empire 10 times and still not know what the fck it means!!
starwriter 3 years ago 2
Thats because David has been smokin weed before he wrote it
aleksandar93 3 years ago
Will someone please tell me the NAME of this film. I have beem searching for unusual music, & i got this video. By the sound of some of you posters, this film sounds appetising. I enjoy watching films that really make a person think.
Film name please? Thanks.
Fattysnowfish 3 years ago
"Inland Empire" by David Lynch (2006).
it's a real masterpiece.
ecomostro 3 years ago
Ma sei proprio un coglione, non hai capito come s'intitola? Coglionazzo è INLAND EMPIRE, guardalo e dimmi se lo capisci
Particelladeltaeco 3 years ago
@Fattysnowfish inland empire thats the name of the movie by david lynch ._. ! ...
PsycReaper 10 months ago
@PsycReaper Thanks, for the films info.
Fattysnowfish 9 months ago
@Fattysnowfish INLAND EMPIRE
AngusYoungForMayor 4 months ago
Will someone please tell me the NAME of this film. I have beem searching for unusual music, & i got this video.
Fattysnowfish 3 years ago
I just watched it tonight. The industry reviewers were correct: this film IS a masterpiece. ["Brain-teasing lychian brilliance" - Sunday Times.
"One of the most fascinating pleasures of this year." - Total Film ]
TinfishUK 3 years ago
songname pls ;]
versoos 3 years ago
Man! I saw this movie a couple of times and the image of 2:05 still scary me the shit out!
Gridseeker 3 years ago
The image at 2:05 is very disturbing
filmfan1985 3 years ago 4
i hate to say it, but this movie fell flat for me. i actually like lynch when he's confined by plot.
wayfarin 3 years ago
Strange what Lynch does...
Ultrasecond 3 years ago 6
Is there any English-mothertongue who could please write down the LYRICS being sung in this soundtrack? I can understand very little, only "strange" being repeated and few other words like "love", but I am not sure...
ecomostro 4 years ago
Strange what love does. It so strange what love does...
Particelladeltaeco 4 years ago
Thamks, you have been very helpful. I loved that movie. btw do you also know what does "Axx°n N." mean?
ecomostro 4 years ago
"Action" (like when actors start playing their roles)?
KingGlutrok 3 years ago
it's the first line you hear in the film, "Axxon N., the longest running radio play in history"
what does it mean? you go figure ;)
zbridgjpxupzm 3 years ago
it's the first line you hear in the film, "Axxon N., the longest running radio play in history"
what does it mean? you go figure ;)
zbridgjpxupzm 3 years ago
David Lynch's visuals are breathtaking. INLAND EMPIRE is my absolute favourite work from him. I love what you've done with this video. It brings me back into that surreal world every time! Great job on this collection of screenshots! =D
watcherfilmsinc 4 years ago 2
I'm incredibly obsessed with this movie. I watched in alone in my room at night and it totally freaked me out. I suppose ol David wouldn't approve of the fact that I watched it on my laptop. I'm weird in that I can be completely engrossed in and entertained by stuff I don't understand at all. Like drareg7777 said, "maybe I'm retarded."
irishcoffee 4 years ago 3
I believe we've been in the same situation my friend.
trisky1234 4 years ago
Could it be David is pulling one of the biggest frauds right under our eyes? I know the filming and professionalism is Top notch, but is he insane?
jimmynorton10 4 years ago
oh, like you're not insane.
rokyrhode 4 years ago
good point.
jimmynorton10 4 years ago
a bit yeah
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BiGirljwt64 4 years ago
since the moment i saw this movie, i can't sleep without music.... it's creeeeeeeeeepy
Porras94 4 years ago
This film communicates to you through emotions/reactions its images produce in you.
I got a really strong feeling of the "curse" of the (fictional) script (the one within the film). I feel that this film put us directly INTO the mind of a person that is experiencing the curse of the fictional film: menace, paranoia, dread, confusion, despair, fragmentation of reality and personality. Lynch made Us experience DIRECTLY what the main character was experiencing under this "curse".
findlestick 4 years ago 4
yes! this film operated so deeply on my nervous system that it completely bypassed my need to "get it," and i just squirmed through it, in awe of lynch's power
RatatRatR 4 years ago 6
what a great compliment to the filmaker. great comment.
Hottub111 3 years ago
I wouldn't hesitate to say the photography in Inland Empire is beyond anything I've ever seen. Lots of people will say it's the worst because it's shaky and out of focus, I think that's what's great about it. The close ups on Laura's face are the best where she slowly turns her face to the side and her nose seems to swell up or something. It's just all amazing and so tripy.
VomitSelf7 4 years ago
I see what you're getting at fiveMIRrOrs. But as a Uni Media student I love to analyse films to hell. I saw this last night; excellent stuff. But I'm gonna watch it again until, like Donnie Darko, I know it like the back of my hand..
FullMetalKenna 4 years ago
Lynch's movies are great because he never talks about what the movies mean to him in interviews, so they're all up to interpretation. There are, for example, a great many interpretations of Eraserhead. Some say it's a movie about sin and forgiveness, others of the perils of parenthood, etc...
BobaMatt 4 years ago
People go see this as a movie like a theater play, but this is another kind of art.
It's much closer to an abstract painting than play. Don't think what he's trying to say, don't analyze it, enjoy it if it's you kinda bag...
fiveMIRrOrs 4 years ago
It's a great film but I can't ( sometimes ) help thinking that the bunnies just weren't up on the screen
gazeff 4 years ago
Thinking about it in hindsight, images like 2:05 aren't THAT provocative alone but put into Lynch's context,they're 'shit out loud' moments.
animalchandler 4 years ago 2
I agree. I'm 19 and only J-Horror seems to creep me out but this; I actually shouted 'Oh my F***ing God!' Fantastic stuff lol
FullMetalKenna 4 years ago
i hated that moment. seriously. i can't even stand the mere sight of a single frame of it. it just popped in front of my eyes like a 3 second nightmare.
lordloki 4 years ago
David Lynch makes films that are after your guts and thats probably why we're ok with apparent lack of cohesion.Its like hes only interested in our subconsciousness,or at the very least putting his subconscious on the screen.Its then up to us to either connect with it or not,and I found that I connected with it in a very passive way;the imagery came easily to me and I understood the tone of the scene even if I didnt totally understand the specifics of what was going on.
animalchandler 4 years ago
This is definitly one of the best films ever made. But David Lynch's best film is "Mulholland Drive." Hands down.
Transformers217 4 years ago 3
really? I've been told that's his worse. But if you say so I'll hunt it down :D This is brilliant but I think I still prefer Eraserhead..
FullMetalKenna 4 years ago
Lynch is SUPREME
galarius 4 years ago
Aww, poor old airrick, trying to tell us that we're retarded because he can't begin to comprehend the greatest film of the decade...
I think Inland Empire is one of the greatest films ever made. I can't get get enough of it. Maybe I'm retarded.
drareg7777 4 years ago
I wouldn't call it one of the greatest films of all time. Lynch has only made a handful of masterpeices. I find Inland empire to be in the "just another lynch movie" section. Every director has at least one movie in that category. David lynch has a few. It is still a pretty good movie though
thepennymachine 4 years ago
what i meant was. Not every director has "just another lynch movie" in there collection. if you take the word lynch out and replace it with another director, That is what i meant
thepennymachine 4 years ago
02:05
Now that's disturbing
Deadmeatproductions 4 years ago
Great video, great song, GREAT movie...!!
Thank you...
GloomySundayNet 4 years ago
what did u like about it? it was incoherent
airrick16 4 years ago
incoherent? no shit?
neptune26 4 years ago
I agree with all your pics of his amazing movies. I think Mulholland drive and lost Highway were my favorite. I also liked Twin Peaks allot too though. I havnt sen Inland Emprie yet except for the bunnie scenes. I shall have to watch the rest and judge it for myself. Did you like Eraser head. That was his first and creapiest I think.
rminter44 3 years ago
I love Eraserhead. You have to see my short movie about it
Particelladeltaeco 3 years ago
If only he'd shot on higher quality DV. I know if he'd gone all the way and shot it on film then he couldn't have got the performances he did from the actors, but one of the many reasons Lynch's films are so wonderful is the beauty of his visuals underpinning the disturbed, ugly horror and weirdness.
ajtomo 4 years ago
Although the lo quality DV does bring the viewer 'closer' to the actors (in the same way home videos do),which was perhaps one of the things Lynch wanted. With scenes such as the early script reading between Dern and Theroux in this film and also the one between Watts and the leathery old actor in Mulholland (can't recall his name),part of the point is to make the audience aware that we're watching actors act (and what a convincing illusion they create. '¡No hay banda!' it is just an illusion).
ajtomo 4 years ago
So maybe I'm undermining my own criticism here but it's often overshadowed by Lynch's surrealism (in the truest sense), sex and violence and weird(ness) on top, that his films are a rare beacon of beauty outside of the European film scene.
ajtomo 4 years ago
what beauty?
airrick16 4 years ago
Pretty much any of his other films are packed with beautiful scenes and imagery-except maybe Dune-and apart from IE beautifully lit and shot throughout. The Elephant Man is astonishing. As is Blue Velvet or The Staight Story. Mulholland Dr is frequently breath-taking. Even when his films are difficult or impossible to understand on a literal level-Lost Highway-they've still got a visceral beauty unlike any other films.
Unless, of course, you think 'beautiful' and 'pretty' are the same thing.
ajtomo 4 years ago
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i have always admired Lynch's work, but this particular movie is just avantgarde-crap!
derfeuerbach 4 years ago
i thought the movie was pretty good
it could've been better but still
not bad
thepennymachine 4 years ago
i agree unfortunately. not on the same level as M.D. or L.Hwy.
airrick16 4 years ago
Rabbits are always a great thematic element. Demonic, real, or people dressed as rabbits, there are never enough.
And this was not Lynch's greatest film. Go see Blue Velvet. Surreal, but still comprehensible.
automatwinslaytracks 4 years ago
without words
bluvelvet01 4 years ago
Fantastic.
jlkmeyer 4 years ago
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fucking idiot
airrick16 4 years ago
Ghost of Love - David Lynch
CoryBGere 4 years ago
what is this song called?
Klarlew 4 years ago
You remember Donnie Darko - the one with Jake Gylenhaal in it? There is an appearance of a creepy-looking bunny man. Directed by Richard Kelly, this movie's happened to be like a Lynch movie with teens. With the appearance of three creepy bunnies in INLAND EMPIRE, it looked like a full circle here
VincibleDionysius 4 years ago
Lynch is one of the few directors that invokes that under lying "weirdness" of life for the cosmically conscious.
bluesborn 4 years ago
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it was beyond weirdness. it was just complete nonsense, and it wasnt entertaining or funny like some of his other movies.
airrick16 4 years ago
The only thing I was completly lost on was the "A X X * N N --->" Written on the door after the sex scene....what the hell does this mean?????
Skaster5288 4 years ago
AXX*N N. is the "longest running radio play in history". re-watch it and pay attention next time.
mikesncc1701 4 years ago
Yeah, but why is it printed on the wall? It still makes no sense
Skaster5288 4 years ago
With the red lamp... do you remember Twin Peaks: A Fire Walk With Me? And how he kept cutting to the ceiling fan @ the top of the stairs? (I believe it was like that) Something about the static in the air brought about impending doom. The color red is a little more helpful in this area with the lamp coupled with the bunny's palate turning red of all a sudden with the one bunny holding up two (Flares?).
Depplover21 4 years ago
maybe. I am watching the film over and over and taking notes and stuff like that. I am making a website that should be up soon and I do in depth analysis' for films like Eraserhead, or Dr. strangelove. This one came as a challenge.
thepennymachine 4 years ago
Hey man, give us the link!
nintyceo 4 years ago
I am not even close to being finished.
I'll post it hear when i finish, I click reply so that you are signaled via email.
thepennymachine 4 years ago
I thought the little girl and the little boy is Laura Dern and J. Theoreoux? Remember how she said about the house in the woods and the shocking image of Laura Dern hopping down the path? And the red lamp could have a number of meanings just like anything else...
Depplover21 4 years ago
one thing I noticed is that scene with the man in the green suit asking for the time, the rabbits talk about that later in the film and the women at the beginning mentions that same time
9:45. I am contemplating that. I love this film
thepennymachine 4 years ago
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Youre retarded if you liked this movie, it was nonsensical
airrick16 4 years ago
i didn't love the movie. I am just a big fan of lynch. i just don't get what you mean by funny. David lynch doesn't mean for them to be comedies. Some of them are pretty funny. Like eraserhead or Wild at Heart
thepennymachine 4 years ago
i thought some parts of Muholland Drive were very funny. I'm trying to think of an example but there are so many. Like that scene where the guy is freaking out about the expresso and everyone just acts really nervous. Or the scene at Winkie's the restaurant, where the guy is talking about his dream. I liked that movie because the characters, although unusual, actually carried on dialog and there some resemblance on a plot. They weren't just mumbling to themselves, smearing crap on the walls.
airrick16 4 years ago
i liked mullholland dr. for it's slight sense of humor and horror. I also like it because it is the david lynch film with the most dream logic. And it was more gripping. Inland Empire was a little slow paced and hard to enjoy. Overall Eraserhead is his best film
thepennymachine 4 years ago
It was def very dream like. I have to watch eraser head
airrick16 4 years ago
Eraserhead is much shorter, and less slow then inland empire. Plus eraserhead isn't as random. It is weird, but not inland empire leveled weirdness.
thepennymachine 4 years ago
do it. if u understand eraserhead ur officially a media student (like myself lol)
FullMetalKenna 4 years ago
That is why I think it was his intention for the audience to be rabbits too. But we don't know for sure...
Depplover21 4 years ago
There is so much more to interpret besides those bunny people. for example, that women at the beginings old tale about the little girl and boy. I also don't understand the red lamp.
thepennymachine 4 years ago
The red lamp suddenly goes out, and the girls appear. Then the crimp has a red light bulb in his mouth. There is a clue there.
Morbin1 4 years ago
Really good point. And remember when the bunnies are talking, and the one who is Nicky (Laura Dern's character) says something about "it has something to do with red." Hypnotists use triggers to set their victims into a trance, and considering how the Phantom has a red light bulb in his mouth and there are red lights in nearly every scene where Nicky is experiencing her psychosis and first sees the hookers, maybe the RED LIGHT (like 'red light' district?) has something to do with her condition.
candydirt 4 years ago
In every David Lynch's movie, stages are a symbol for the life. In Eraserhead, the chipmunk woman (death), sings "in heaven everything is fine" on a stage. Suicide is a solution. In Mulholand Drive, the magician on the stage says "no hay banda". Life is an illusion. In inland empire, there are these bunnies. I don't know the exact meaning, but i have a clue that is something related to us being massive reproducers, watching passively our lifes on tv.
nintyceo 4 years ago
I enjoyed the trailers more than the movie itself. It was like 5 difrent movies going on at once and when certain characters spoke it made no sense.
calavera69 4 years ago
Also when we view a David Lynch film or any film for that matter it is a personal experience. We are the other presence in viewing the film when we are experience. We are there everpresent throughout the whole viewing. David Lynch acknowledges this probably more severely than other directors.
Depplover21 4 years ago
Wanna know what i thinks really disturbing in the movie? THREE bunnies in a room and FOUR shadows in the wall behind them. When i saw the the scene that shows Dern's distorted face, i've shit myself.
nintyceo 4 years ago
You know how I intrepreted that nintyceo? I thought it meant with the four bunny shadows is that there was a bunny audience and we (as the viewer) are rabbits.
Depplover21 4 years ago
possibly, there is a lot to interpret in this film. Thats an idea, but why do you think this!!!!!!!!
thepennymachine 4 years ago
Good question because I was reading my comment earlier the other day. I guess is because, in this film anyways, and there could be many theories is that in that world it is how we exist. We live normally but are still entrapped in a place that we can't identify. In the Rabbits segment that is what we look like, therefore are we to assume that it is not only the actors who are rabbits but the audience as well? When we see actors on stage today they are humans in our world are they not?
Depplover21 4 years ago
it is a thought, this whole movie is done very strangely but great, it could mean a lot of things, hell, it might just be the lighting that caused it but I doubt it.
thepennymachine 4 years ago