Cinefantastique Online

by Dan Persons

That title is pretty much a metaphor for this film’s ultimate fate. MULHOLLAND DRIVE, David Lynch’s next effort, caught all the critical praise, while LOST HIGHWAY has undeservedly languished alone and unloved. With its hallucinogenic paranoia; its time/space anomolies; its supporting cast that includes Robert Loggia, Henry Rollins, Gary Busey (Gary Busey!), Richard Pryor (Richard Pryor!) and Robert Blake (ROBERT BLAKE!!! — in pancake makeup, no less!); and what has to stand as the ballsiest attempt to graft two discrete stories onto one another, this is Lynch in fine, full, freaky form.

Best way to see it is on the large screen, where the slam-cuts from pitch black to stark white sear your eyeballs and the thrumming, ambient soundtrack surrounds you in its Dolby embrace, but that’s the price you pay (along with the commercials — this is Hulu, after all) for getting this day-pass to Lynchworld for free. Turn down the lights, turn up the sound, and prepare to get your mind bent.

Film begins after the fold.

Link to CFQ’s LOST HIGHWAY Archive (from issue 28:10 - April 1997)