David Lynchis a director known for powerful imagery, surrealism, and dreamlike sequences in his thrilling films.
It should be even less of a surprise that many of those Lynchian attempts fail.
Here are films that attempted to be Lynchian and failed.
The plot doesn’t exactly go down smoothly - and neither did the execution.
Gothikaonly has a 15% onRotten Tomatoes.
While it received many negative reviews, Roger Ebert did review it rather positively.
So what went wrong?
The film has a 0% approval rating onRotten Tomatoes.
Shocking, but the film gets stranger from there.
He sees coincidences in the book to his life and unraveling those coincidences unravels his life.
Carrey remains proud of the film.
This fantastical thriller is very clearly Lynchian with a seedy plot and surrealist fantasy elements.
The film takes place in a deserted city filled with crime where a mother struggles to raise her sons.
One of her sons discovers a road that leads him to a secret town underwater.
Gosling wrote and directed the film.
While that review is scathing, the film did find positive reviews abroad.
Over time, film critics appreciated it as anhomageto Lynch and Refn.
The house istormentingthe new inhabitants for their past sins.
Some critics felt that it ripped off the bookHouse of Leavesas well as Lynch’s dark quirkiness.
True toBasic Instinctform, he investigates her while also having a sexual relationship with her.
Lindsay plays a woman who was kidnapped.
She returns, but she claims to be someone else.
It has since become a cult classic as a so-bad-it’s-good midnight movie.
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