Continuing my appreciation of filmmaker David Lynch’s career, the next film up is 1992’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, a big-screen prequel to the hit TV show.
The movie was greenlit after Twin Peaks was cancelled, its second season having ended on a grisly cliffhanger. But rather than resolve that story, Fire Walk With Me is a prequel to the series that depicts the week before Laura Palmer was found dead.
The film was a commercial failure, not surprising given that it’s a spin-off of a TV show that was cancelled due to low viewership.