At a party thrown by a sleazy friend of Renee’s, Fred encounters a ghoulish and sinister figure referred to in the script only as The Mystery Man (Robert Blake), who claims to have met Fred once before. Successful jazz saxophonist Fred Madison (Bill Pullman) and his bombshell wife Renee (Patricia Arquette) begin receiving menacing video tape recordings taken both outside and from within their home in the Hollywood Hills. Lost Highway begins as a straightforward-if unmistakably Lynchian-thriller about an unhappily married couple menaced by an unseen stalker. Twenty-five years on from its initial theatrical run, Lost Highway remains one of, if not the most disturbing movie David Lynch has ever made, not only for what he put in front of the camera, but for what all occurred beyond it.

It would therefore be wrong to conclude that this scene was directly inspired by own film of nine years prior, Lost Highway, but given all that happened following the production and release of that picture-including the involvement of three cast members in real-life murder cases-it’s hard not to make such a connection.

When it comes to discussing his own work, Lynch has always been one of our cagiest directors.

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