@MsDissasociative you have to watch the whole movie to get the full effect. It's not about what the effect looks like, it's about what the effect actually is. The idea that she is facing some monstrous side of her own psyche is what's scary, not necessarily just the face itself.
I hated this film when I saw it in the theatres... any after all this time, I still cannot shake some of the imagery of this creepy film. I actually am waiting for them to show it in a revival house, so I can sit through it again. Absolutely disturbing vision. Pure Lynch. The film just needed more of a script and maybe to be cut down by a half hour.
Like others said, its the 2 hours of buildup. The rest of the movie uses shadows, emptiness and general strangeness to unnerve you. So when the climax starts its extremely jarring, because you expected some kind of melt in or butt-in from the shadows, not the antagonist getting in your face in bright light like a damned lunatic.
scary as all hell. That's the thing about nightmares and the subconscious: in the rational, cold light of day it might not be as scary, but when you're seeing in the right context it's pretty scarring. Good grief, I just about peed my pants at this.
This must have scared the living piss out of audiences in the first screening! It appears for the weird end being is a dude wearing a white stocking with weird shit projected onto it. David Lynch is the master of horrifying images!
Man, I tried watching this movie in the dark and with headphones on. I had to turn on the light when I heard the woman scream in the stairwell. I still jumped when I saw this scene and the scene where nikki/sue runs toward to camera. Man, now I have to sleep with my kitty-cat.
I've been a fan of scary movies all my life and thought I was pretty desensitized to being startled and everything, but when I saw this scene I seriously jumped up and started screaming BLOODY MURDER. I closed my eyes for a second, and then re-opened them at about 0:50 and started screaming even louder. I was traumatized for DAYS afterward. This is a true masterpiece. I've NEVER been affected by a film this way ever before.
@ahhh157 Did you see the whole film? This wouldn't bother me at all if it weren't for the 2 and a half hours of intense build-up, but seeing this one image in the context of the film was one of the scariest things I've ever experienced.
Okay, the dumpster monster and the old people in Mulholland Dr. were enough. Now, David Lynch must be snickering every day knowing that that one face has caused everyone's pants to be shat inside out. You owe me a pair of trousers Mr. Lynch.
This is so much fucking scarier then some dude with a chainsaw... I just saw Inland Empire again and I was in a state of utter dread for a full 10 minutes leading up to this.
I almost can't put into words how this scene made me feel the first time I saw it: my blood ran cold, my heart was pounding violently, my hairs were on end, it was sheer terror.
Even now I can be standing somewhere, waiting for the train, and I think of this scene, and my hairs stand on end just by thinking about it. Nothing else I've experienced can do that.
But you have to see the three hours leading up for it to have its full effect.
@KawaiiDesuNekoBCSK haha I love stupid comments like yours. You only felt the need to say it wasn't scary or creepy because you shit your fucking pants. But then again every ones a tough guy on the internet.
watched this while I was high. not advised, btw. longest 3 hours of my life. and this scene caught me completely off-guard. I still have no idea what any of that was. but damn. it was brilliant. the whole experience.
david lynch, you are a genius and your films make my head hurt.
I admit I thought this movie wasn't that great... BUT it was worth watching for this scene alone. When that face came up, I jumped and literally screamed, and I'm a guy who never does either.
I showed this movie to a friend the other day. He actually said "What the fuck?" so many times that he was getting that sensation people experience when they say a phrase so much that it doesn't even seem like english anymore.
By the way, did Lynch study psychology at some point? He sure knows how to screw with people's heads.
for some reason i think this movie is better experienced alone. the first time i saw it i was alone and it affected me so strongly i felt like i wasnt myself for days afterward. i got a group of friends together to watch it cuz i wanted them to experience it as well but it wasnt quite the same. people kept getting up to go smoke cigs and having side conversations and laughing at strange moments (such as this one when the phantom appears) and it just kinda ruined the experience
i watched it at 4 am, alone in my bedroom...up to that moment my mind was so fucked up that i started thinking on giving up. all of a sudden, this scene appeared...oh my (my heart skipped a beat, forsooth)
After that nightmare/hobo? from Mulholland Dr sent me out my room crying i've taken extreme caution when watching Lynch films :p it sounds like this is much scarier though.
Normally movies like this don't phase me, but I keep coming back to this scene in a sadistic "I feel like shitting brix today" kind of way.
I don't know exactly what it is about it, but David Lynch knows a LOT about how the mind works. In this case, I think a disturbing, distorted version of the main character (Nikki) that we've sort of come to identify with is the biggest scare, if for no other reason than it's so unnatural looking and almost grotesque.
I'm fairly certain this movie was made JUST to be a mind screw. I figured out Mulholland Drive after some thought and even managed to follow Eraserhead the whole way through but this one... yeah.
Goddamn, this is scary shit. I watched this alone at midnight with a huge surround audio system. I kind of expected a creepy movie, but not this. That face might just be the most disturbing and horrifying thing ever put in a movie. I couldn't sleep the entire night.
And the other scene where Nikki simply walks into a close-up, scaring the living shit out of me? Jesus Christ, Lynch knows how to make movies seem like nightmares.
@Loffeleif goddammit i was watching this alone too with the sound system really fuckin loud. Its 130 in the morning and i dont want to go to bed. FUCK
Lynch is about the only filmmaker who can create a true dream-like atmosphere- 'dream like' is a phrase attributed to a lot of strange films, but for me Lynch is the only one who seems to be able to really capture that dream logic and claustrophobia- i dont know how he does it.
Yes, exactly. Critics often are quick to label weird movies as dream-like but most are only weird for its own sake. Lynch delves deep into the human psyche. He really is an explorer of the mind, how mind relates to itself, and its relationship with reality.
What is lost in translation in this video is all of the build up that happens before this scene. The movie creeps you out and leaves you on edge for quite some time before actually trying to scare you. That ends up making this scene MUCH scarier. Wait, why am I trying to justify this movie to a user named reedunculous? You know what, don't see it then; go see Friday the 13th or The Ruins, or whatever other crap you probably pass off as "scary". I'll stick to the real scares.
I've never even heard of "The Ruins", and "Friday The 13th" is even less scary than this. No need to get nasty about it. These are only opinions, not personal attacks on your family or something.
@Punk13405 dont worry, in the end everyone has different things that scare them. the thing with this is even if it doesnt scare some people, it is still amazing. its impossible for one scare to cater to everyone, but for what it tries to do it achieves, and thats mind rape lol
Lynch displays a characteristic that no one can. this scene has so much meaning. Nikki comes face to face with the phantom and sees her dark side come out. but she is so scared by this side that she shoots at it. she shoots at her dark reflection. lynch is utter genious
This had to be the most scary thing ever. I mean no horror film can ever be what this was. Inland Empire isn't even a horror film and when everyone saw this on the big screen everyone jumped. A girl even left the theater.
It's made from the viewpoint of the actors that play themselves and in the movie. Lynch is one of those guys that is able to choose his actors just for the sake of symbolical meanings of their names.
Oh, there are sane people out there. Sanity is basically just how you take an attitude on life.
How, Lynch sees life... I dunno. But I am betting that he's pretty balanced smart guy, and sees himself as an entertainer to himself and others. And to him, mentally unstable people are more complex, thus more interesting, thus more entertaining, than your basic sane person.
This scene makes the entire movie for me. It ties in all the fear and desperation that was built up in the previous hours to a most nightmarish climax.
If you watched this in the cinema with others, you really appreciate just how gruesome and shocking it is.
From 1:58 to 2:28 ... that clown face ... it's Count Smokula. Look him up if you don't believe me. I think Lynch saw a picture of the Count somewhere ... maybe in a Hollywood magazine or a newspaper (he's very photogenic) ... and vidage got stuck in Lynch's mind. It looks too much like him to be a coincidence. No shit! It's the Count!
The Phantom looks just like Count Smokula. I'm telling you. Whether or not it's a "distorted image of Laura Dern" or some combination of images, it looks just like the Count. Count Smokula is a somewhat obscure performer who had a cable access channel here in L.A. about ten years ago. He appears frequently on the stripper/magician/horror circuit around So Cal and he's been on Tom Green's webcast program a number of times.
When I say that the face looks like Count Smokula, understand that Count Smokula is a character played by the actor Smokey Miles. When he appears as The Count Miles wears white pancake makeup with rouge-darkened lips. I'm telling you it looks so much like him that it's too freaky. Like I said, I believe that, possibly, Lynch saw a picture of Smokula - maybe in a magazine somewhere - and the image stuck in his mind subconciously. For Lynch - so I've read - the image comes first, meaning later.
the weirdest ,most beautiful ,fucked up ,strangest,coolest,most schizophrenic,and i can go on and on ...a genious movie ,lynch is ...well i don't know what that man is ...thx for the inspiration !!!
Le labyrinthe lynchéen... C'est cette peur de sombrer dans la démence... cette crainte de basculer dans un cauchemar duirne... Il met notre raison à l'épreuve. Nous devons penser pour lutter contre l'image elle-même... car après tout, une image n'est jamais qu'une image et Lynch est un trop grand génie pour sombrer dans le parti pris selon lequel le spectateur est naïf. Il nous fait le cadeau du crash test émotionnel et intellectuel. C'est le cinéma d'un esprit libre.
I nearly burst into tears when I saw this in the theaters. That face is forever burned in my mind, it's one of the most horrifying images captured in cinema. It's just crazy.
holy shit, this is the first thing in YEARS, fucking YEARS, that has actually scared me. i mean ive been scared by horror movies before but only after watching it. this, however, scared me RIGHT when it appeared. i dont think i can sleep well tonight...
IE is Lynch's epic masterpiece dreamscape. When I dream, concepts of time, place, identity and perception all become hideously distorted. To capture this surreal environment on video is art of the highest order. Long Live Lynch.
for non-lynch fans, I guess this would appear just strange and indulgent. For fans of Lynch's work - myself included - this is just a magic moment, and has a heart and uplifting in its ending: for me, a very moving scene and message! Thanks for posting! :)
i found this when lookign up jeff the killer...
MyQuakers 4 weeks ago
@MyQuakers so did I
Wesley683 2 weeks ago
how is this scary, wtf is the close -up, looks like some shitty cheap edited movie. I don't know someone inform me.
MsDissasociative 1 month ago
@MsDissasociative you have to watch the whole movie to get the full effect. It's not about what the effect looks like, it's about what the effect actually is. The idea that she is facing some monstrous side of her own psyche is what's scary, not necessarily just the face itself.
Punk13405 1 month ago
I hated this film when I saw it in the theatres... any after all this time, I still cannot shake some of the imagery of this creepy film. I actually am waiting for them to show it in a revival house, so I can sit through it again. Absolutely disturbing vision. Pure Lynch. The film just needed more of a script and maybe to be cut down by a half hour.
Lewis1key 2 months ago
@Lewis1key actually I think it's good that the movie is so long. It makes it feel like a nightmare you can't wake up from.
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Like others said, its the 2 hours of buildup. The rest of the movie uses shadows, emptiness and general strangeness to unnerve you. So when the climax starts its extremely jarring, because you expected some kind of melt in or butt-in from the shadows, not the antagonist getting in your face in bright light like a damned lunatic.
GaMeRs001 2 months ago
scary as all hell. That's the thing about nightmares and the subconscious: in the rational, cold light of day it might not be as scary, but when you're seeing in the right context it's pretty scarring. Good grief, I just about peed my pants at this.
turtlewings 6 months ago
I'm so happy i didn't see this in theaters(not like i could anyway). I would have jumped 30 feet.
mmfan15 6 months ago
This must have scared the living piss out of audiences in the first screening! It appears for the weird end being is a dude wearing a white stocking with weird shit projected onto it. David Lynch is the master of horrifying images!
dirac33 7 months ago
I love this...
This scene is wonderfully dreadful,
and I love this movie....
as well as Muholland Drive, Lost Highway, and Twin Peaks: FWWM. Those are the best ones.
ChesterAsucka 7 months ago
Scary
DevinDerga 9 months ago
I keep telling myself to watch it to the end, but I remember how that face looks and I DON'T WANNAAAA (I'm such a fucking chicken shit)
poeticjournalism 10 months ago
Well, this doesn't seem that scary, she's just confronting some typical lynchian archetypal... NUOO MY GOD!!!
JonasPlanck 11 months ago
Man, I tried watching this movie in the dark and with headphones on. I had to turn on the light when I heard the woman scream in the stairwell. I still jumped when I saw this scene and the scene where nikki/sue runs toward to camera. Man, now I have to sleep with my kitty-cat.
alexsweeley 11 months ago
I saw this crazy movie when it first came out! This was a freaky scene!
I ended up trying to describe this scene to someone I worked with that next Monday!
Ha! Ha! Ha!
Lewis1key 11 months ago
When you see it, you'll shit bricks.
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bass109 1 year ago
I've been a fan of scary movies all my life and thought I was pretty desensitized to being startled and everything, but when I saw this scene I seriously jumped up and started screaming BLOODY MURDER. I closed my eyes for a second, and then re-opened them at about 0:50 and started screaming even louder. I was traumatized for DAYS afterward. This is a true masterpiece. I've NEVER been affected by a film this way ever before.
mrnack 1 year ago
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mrnack 1 year ago
i wonder what david lynch dreams about
mark1092 1 year ago 3
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I think his movies are his dreams. lol
ThatHauntFreak2 11 months ago
I thought the diner scene in Mulholland Drive was terrifying, but this movie takes it a whole other level
alittlemikeful 1 year ago 2
David Lynch is the only person who could make a good Silent Hill movie.
spase667 1 year ago 7
never seen Inland Empire, therefor this scene, although strange, wasn't very frightening. no context i guess. i'll have to check this one out.
jellyfish74 1 year ago
this scene freaked the hell out of me.
turtlewings 1 year ago
is this supposed to be scary? i was lmao xD
ahhh157 1 year ago
@ahhh157 I enjoyed it much more than some of this year's horror films.
neon6 1 year ago
@ahhh157 Did you see the whole film? This wouldn't bother me at all if it weren't for the 2 and a half hours of intense build-up, but seeing this one image in the context of the film was one of the scariest things I've ever experienced.
mrnack 1 year ago
Okay, the dumpster monster and the old people in Mulholland Dr. were enough. Now, David Lynch must be snickering every day knowing that that one face has caused everyone's pants to be shat inside out. You owe me a pair of trousers Mr. Lynch.
TehDDC 1 year ago 5
THAT. FUCKING. FACE.
Indextic 1 year ago
I thought I was gonna have a heart attack.
This is so much fucking scarier then some dude with a chainsaw... I just saw Inland Empire again and I was in a state of utter dread for a full 10 minutes leading up to this.
vaguelyhumanoid 1 year ago
that face = scarred for life
TheCoasterGod 1 year ago
I almost can't put into words how this scene made me feel the first time I saw it: my blood ran cold, my heart was pounding violently, my hairs were on end, it was sheer terror.
Even now I can be standing somewhere, waiting for the train, and I think of this scene, and my hairs stand on end just by thinking about it. Nothing else I've experienced can do that.
But you have to see the three hours leading up for it to have its full effect.
kolomgorov 1 year ago 3
My heart was beating with a rush of fear, watching that scene again.
youtubmoses 1 year ago 2
Why am I so jaded? I wanted to be scared.. maybe that's why I wasn't scared. Damn it!
PowerAnimalx 1 year ago
favorited, jesus christ this is disturbing
azuritereaction 1 year ago
Not very scary.
KawaiiDesuNekoBCSK 1 year ago
@KawaiiDesuNekoBCSK haha I love stupid comments like yours. You only felt the need to say it wasn't scary or creepy because you shit your fucking pants. But then again every ones a tough guy on the internet.
sailboatsandwine 1 year ago
@sailboatsandwine No, I genuinely felt it wasn't very scary. Sorry some of us have standards.
KawaiiDesuNekoBCSK 1 year ago
watched this while I was high. not advised, btw. longest 3 hours of my life. and this scene caught me completely off-guard. I still have no idea what any of that was. but damn. it was brilliant. the whole experience.
david lynch, you are a genius and your films make my head hurt.
WNF 1 year ago 2
Holy crap did you see the second shadow behind her at 1:02!! This scene is like out of someone's worst nightmares.
xxashyy 1 year ago
That face is the very picture of the horror of death-thought. It is our fear of death personified, no joke.
brautigan1 1 year ago
lame
tccs319 1 year ago
Very Francis Bacon
tugster19 1 year ago
I lol'd.
DSXTheGreatest 1 year ago
GET IT AWAY GET IT AWAY GET IT AWAY
SpamNapkin 2 years ago 5
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Once you see it, it can't be unseen.
neon6 1 year ago
when i finished this movie all i could say was what the fuck just happened. this movie is intense. this movie gets into your head and mind fucks you.
PistolGripPump12ga 2 years ago
Lynch is heavily influenced by Francis Bacon and it shows here.
tugster19 2 years ago
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hmm, i found this to be quite retarded
Demock 2 years ago
Yeah, the movie's like one great big mirror that way. :)
achimendez 1 year ago
*yawnz* -_- 2:11 was fugly
xXRiekoRuzakiXx 2 years ago
I admit I thought this movie wasn't that great... BUT it was worth watching for this scene alone. When that face came up, I jumped and literally screamed, and I'm a guy who never does either.
YouCantDeleteDenzelL 2 years ago
I showed this movie to a friend the other day. He actually said "What the fuck?" so many times that he was getting that sensation people experience when they say a phrase so much that it doesn't even seem like english anymore.
By the way, did Lynch study psychology at some point? He sure knows how to screw with people's heads.
ANONtkakes 2 years ago
You know those youtube videos where something pop up and scare you. This would definatly make for a good one
tugster19 2 years ago
for some reason i think this movie is better experienced alone. the first time i saw it i was alone and it affected me so strongly i felt like i wasnt myself for days afterward. i got a group of friends together to watch it cuz i wanted them to experience it as well but it wasnt quite the same. people kept getting up to go smoke cigs and having side conversations and laughing at strange moments (such as this one when the phantom appears) and it just kinda ruined the experience
icculus913 2 years ago 4
i watched it at 4 am, alone in my bedroom...up to that moment my mind was so fucked up that i started thinking on giving up. all of a sudden, this scene appeared...oh my (my heart skipped a beat, forsooth)
robotophobia 2 years ago 2
Okay, definitely scarier. fuck.
Kaatism 2 years ago
After that nightmare/hobo? from Mulholland Dr sent me out my room crying i've taken extreme caution when watching Lynch films :p it sounds like this is much scarier though.
Kaatism 2 years ago
Holy shit. this is really fucking with your brain! Unlike... Any other film. David lynch... O M G
yoinkz 2 years ago
Christ. Lynch knows how to make a scary fuckin' dream.
WiloWiG 2 years ago 7
Normally movies like this don't phase me, but I keep coming back to this scene in a sadistic "I feel like shitting brix today" kind of way.
I don't know exactly what it is about it, but David Lynch knows a LOT about how the mind works. In this case, I think a disturbing, distorted version of the main character (Nikki) that we've sort of come to identify with is the biggest scare, if for no other reason than it's so unnatural looking and almost grotesque.
ANONtkakes 2 years ago 3
...I'm usually pretty good at interpreting weird-as-hell movies, but Lynch has me stumped on this one. What the dick, man.
ANONtkakes 2 years ago 6
Why would you copy stuff from chans?
mamooth 2 years ago
I'm fairly certain this movie was made JUST to be a mind screw. I figured out Mulholland Drive after some thought and even managed to follow Eraserhead the whole way through but this one... yeah.
MightyNeonFraa 2 years ago
Goddamn, this is scary shit. I watched this alone at midnight with a huge surround audio system. I kind of expected a creepy movie, but not this. That face might just be the most disturbing and horrifying thing ever put in a movie. I couldn't sleep the entire night.
And the other scene where Nikki simply walks into a close-up, scaring the living shit out of me? Jesus Christ, Lynch knows how to make movies seem like nightmares.
Loffeleif 2 years ago 25
@Loffeleif goddammit i was watching this alone too with the sound system really fuckin loud. Its 130 in the morning and i dont want to go to bed. FUCK
butters226 1 year ago
Well, that was fucking terrifying as hell lol.
zyphoid666 2 years ago
dont get it
Cathodestar 2 years ago
Lynch is very Jungian really
this is the main character's confrontation with the dark side of herself, the one she has always projected on to the men in her life - "the Shadow"
kurgal2 2 years ago 2
more! more! more! i want to see more... its a poem!
usbeko 2 years ago
when that fucking face came up....
thelittlegiantman1 2 years ago 6
I think i just soiled my pants. THIS is what a scary movie is, HOLY SHIT...I can't describe it any other way. Thanks for the nightmares, David Lynch!
cainda 2 years ago 10
Easily the most terrifying moment in the canon of David Lynch film.
smarfling 2 years ago 4
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smarfling 2 years ago
The "Winkies" scene from Mullholland Dr. scared me when I first saw it.
CitizenKANE2277 2 years ago 4
Lynch is about the only filmmaker who can create a true dream-like atmosphere- 'dream like' is a phrase attributed to a lot of strange films, but for me Lynch is the only one who seems to be able to really capture that dream logic and claustrophobia- i dont know how he does it.
TobeUK 2 years ago 6
I agree.
CitizenKANE2277 2 years ago 2
Yes, exactly. Critics often are quick to label weird movies as dream-like but most are only weird for its own sake. Lynch delves deep into the human psyche. He really is an explorer of the mind, how mind relates to itself, and its relationship with reality.
Fadedpoetry123 2 years ago 5
That is amazing yet extremely weird... I love it
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WTF was THAT? Don't tell me the whole movie is like this? Good thing I haven't seen it yet. Looks like a complete waste of time.
reedunculous 2 years ago
What is lost in translation in this video is all of the build up that happens before this scene. The movie creeps you out and leaves you on edge for quite some time before actually trying to scare you. That ends up making this scene MUCH scarier. Wait, why am I trying to justify this movie to a user named reedunculous? You know what, don't see it then; go see Friday the 13th or The Ruins, or whatever other crap you probably pass off as "scary". I'll stick to the real scares.
Punk13405 2 years ago 17
I've never even heard of "The Ruins", and "Friday The 13th" is even less scary than this. No need to get nasty about it. These are only opinions, not personal attacks on your family or something.
reedunculous 2 years ago
@Punk13405 dont worry, in the end everyone has different things that scare them. the thing with this is even if it doesnt scare some people, it is still amazing. its impossible for one scare to cater to everyone, but for what it tries to do it achieves, and thats mind rape lol
tharbk01 1 year ago
Don't watch it then, you don't deserve it!
ginkgonk122 2 years ago
Christ, that's fucking scary. Unlike Halloween 2009.
neon6 2 years ago
that part made me jump 5 feet off my couch when the dark face comes up
creampackage 2 years ago 3
Lynch displays a characteristic that no one can. this scene has so much meaning. Nikki comes face to face with the phantom and sees her dark side come out. but she is so scared by this side that she shoots at it. she shoots at her dark reflection. lynch is utter genious
illchiken10 2 years ago 3
This had to be the most scary thing ever. I mean no horror film can ever be what this was. Inland Empire isn't even a horror film and when everyone saw this on the big screen everyone jumped. A girl even left the theater.
sailboatsandwine 2 years ago 3
I've seen a lot of fucking terrifying horror films but Inland Empire is still the scariest movie I've ever seen.
hygraed 2 years ago 4
The end of the journey. Facing the fear. Perfection.
blestemp 2 years ago
The phantom then said "No, Laura Dern, you are the phantom"
And then Laura was a mental patient.
Gayforguys 2 years ago 3
Lynch still has it.
lexigore 2 years ago 3
True and good, but kinda wish he would make on more movie from a viewpoint of mentally sane person.
fiveMIRrOrs 2 years ago
It's made from the viewpoint of the actors that play themselves and in the movie. Lynch is one of those guys that is able to choose his actors just for the sake of symbolical meanings of their names.
globalnywiesniak 2 years ago
theres no such thing
kalindoscopy 2 years ago
Oh, there are sane people out there. Sanity is basically just how you take an attitude on life.
How, Lynch sees life... I dunno. But I am betting that he's pretty balanced smart guy, and sees himself as an entertainer to himself and others. And to him, mentally unstable people are more complex, thus more interesting, thus more entertaining, than your basic sane person.
fiveMIRrOrs 2 years ago
it's a sliding scale. lynch plays with the frayed edges.
kalindoscopy 2 years ago
This scene makes the entire movie for me. It ties in all the fear and desperation that was built up in the previous hours to a most nightmarish climax.
If you watched this in the cinema with others, you really appreciate just how gruesome and shocking it is.
CoffinOfTurk 2 years ago
i always think how awesome it would be to watch this film alone in one of those old antique theaters you see in lynch's films sometimes.
cannedkitty 2 years ago 2
I have the urge to try and make an imitation of this.
Nitruix 2 years ago
i won't lie, that got me good! i had the volume up loud too. lol
vegunited06 2 years ago
I've seen this on a 40" tv at midnight. Didn't sleep. Lynch is genius.
felipepb1 3 years ago
Palpable. Wistful. Zen.
Weaselpanties 3 years ago
reminds me of Hecker's Sun Pandemonium album.. basically like a severely confrontational hallucination
tokyohalogen 3 years ago
One of the most terrifying moments in cinema history.
budkin 3 years ago 9
yes its so freakin' scary!!!
coaster1000 3 years ago 3
c'mon now... the homeless guy making his first appearance in "mullholand drive" was much worse.
mikebott 3 years ago 3
i agree
untitledfan 2 years ago
Well, I won't be sleeping tonight. Thanks Mr Lynch! lol.
Kain5th 3 years ago 8
...But... but what do the bunnies have to do with it all?
Readasaur 3 years ago 2
From 1:58 to 2:28 ... that clown face ... it's Count Smokula. Look him up if you don't believe me. I think Lynch saw a picture of the Count somewhere ... maybe in a Hollywood magazine or a newspaper (he's very photogenic) ... and vidage got stuck in Lynch's mind. It looks too much like him to be a coincidence. No shit! It's the Count!
bapyou 3 years ago
It's a distorted image of Laura Dern's (Nikki in the movie) face on top of the phantom.
Punk13405 3 years ago
The Phantom looks just like Count Smokula. I'm telling you. Whether or not it's a "distorted image of Laura Dern" or some combination of images, it looks just like the Count. Count Smokula is a somewhat obscure performer who had a cable access channel here in L.A. about ten years ago. He appears frequently on the stripper/magician/horror circuit around So Cal and he's been on Tom Green's webcast program a number of times.
bapyou 3 years ago
When I say that the face looks like Count Smokula, understand that Count Smokula is a character played by the actor Smokey Miles. When he appears as The Count Miles wears white pancake makeup with rouge-darkened lips. I'm telling you it looks so much like him that it's too freaky. Like I said, I believe that, possibly, Lynch saw a picture of Smokula - maybe in a magazine somewhere - and the image stuck in his mind subconciously. For Lynch - so I've read - the image comes first, meaning later.
bapyou 3 years ago
David Lynch are you trying to make me poop my pants?
TehKarmaPolice 3 years ago 6
Woah.... That was... Different... Now my hair is standing on end...
Leak000 3 years ago 3
Nothing more scary than finding out that "the monster" is YOU! Lynch is the greatest!
Laurisa718 3 years ago 5
Strange (so strange!) what Lynch does...
bellaelvis11 3 years ago 2
LSD is a hell of a drug...
JoeyDaytona 3 years ago 6
The original was called Vier Sieben...
OUTLANDEMPIRE 3 years ago
Who WOULDN'T shoot again?
BigDyno 3 years ago 4
Oh, what the fuck.
Idolores 3 years ago 5
Wait...what?
ChristaC22 3 years ago 2
My fiance swore this was the scariest thing ever...guess I'd have to see it??
babyleepsmomma 3 years ago 4
the weirdest ,most beautiful ,fucked up ,strangest,coolest,most schizophrenic,and i can go on and on ...a genious movie ,lynch is ...well i don't know what that man is ...thx for the inspiration !!!
texasB666 3 years ago 2
No movie scene can ever scare you like this one.
sailboatsandwine 3 years ago 2
what a film!!!
darkworld8 3 years ago
Le labyrinthe lynchéen... C'est cette peur de sombrer dans la démence... cette crainte de basculer dans un cauchemar duirne... Il met notre raison à l'épreuve. Nous devons penser pour lutter contre l'image elle-même... car après tout, une image n'est jamais qu'une image et Lynch est un trop grand génie pour sombrer dans le parti pris selon lequel le spectateur est naïf. Il nous fait le cadeau du crash test émotionnel et intellectuel. C'est le cinéma d'un esprit libre.
lignedefuite 3 years ago
I nearly burst into tears when I saw this in the theaters. That face is forever burned in my mind, it's one of the most horrifying images captured in cinema. It's just crazy.
Deffie 3 years ago 8
holy shit, this is the first thing in YEARS, fucking YEARS, that has actually scared me. i mean ive been scared by horror movies before but only after watching it. this, however, scared me RIGHT when it appeared. i dont think i can sleep well tonight...
raisukeuzarachi 3 years ago 5
Glad to hear it ;)
Punk13405 3 years ago
1:58, never been so scared, horrific!!!
UpperClass184 3 years ago
I nearly crapped my pants!
NapalmNewt 3 years ago 4
Holy crap....O_o
Actually makes me want to watch this movie.
sailoryaoimoon 3 years ago
IE is Lynch's epic masterpiece dreamscape. When I dream, concepts of time, place, identity and perception all become hideously distorted. To capture this surreal environment on video is art of the highest order. Long Live Lynch.
ljtate 3 years ago 10
This is among the most frightening scenes in any movie. I won't watch this alone ever again.
mjshade1 3 years ago 7
I think the nightmarish quality is the point. Good night..it certainly scares the pooh outta me..
00NikkiV00 3 years ago 2
When I saw Inland Empire the first time in theaters, I nearly leaped out of my seat at this part. This scene is the stuff of nightmares.
jwiden1 3 years ago 2
Oh my God... that is CREEEEEPY as hell :D
Skyfel 3 years ago
for non-lynch fans, I guess this would appear just strange and indulgent. For fans of Lynch's work - myself included - this is just a magic moment, and has a heart and uplifting in its ending: for me, a very moving scene and message! Thanks for posting! :)
Ouroboros512 3 years ago 2
Christ, Nikki's/Susan's distorted face gets me everytime.
rayn147 3 years ago 4