The Lost Highway by David Lynch
We were out one night in Brixton and went to the fabulous Ritzy Cinema to see this much acclaimed new work by acclaimed film making guy.

I've never cared for Lynch or this type of Heavy Art Film. However, I found myself sat with a lot of people who did. A lot. Who did. A lot.

So anyway i sat through this disturbing disjointed head fucking story. It was OK. I could see the point, without being that impressed. In common with some other films, I struggled to give a fuck about any of the characters and anything that happened to them. i think some films just expect you to care about a character, without giving you any reason to. This was such a film.

But then there's this scene at the end, where (ooh! how original) some homicidal maniac is chasing this couple around their sumptuous house, trying to do what homicidal maniacs do best.

THEN it look's like our couple's geese are cooked.
THEN the bad guy GOES DOWN HARD (but out of shot, behind a small cocktail bar)
THEN the couple start making out,they are SO RELIEVED! the horror has ended.

REMEMBER this is not a cliché, it's an art film so it's dead good.
BUT THEN the bad guy gets back up. OMG he's not dead, after all!
THEN he LEAPS over the bar, straight at our hero and heroine!
BUT he flies over their heads, and lands, full length, in the sunken sofa area of the room, with about 4 inches of the corner of a glass coffee table stuck into his forehead THE END.

The whole cinema GASPED with shock. The horror. The poignancy. The camera angle.

I, OTOH, almost pissed myself. It was pure, ridiculous Peter Jackson/Bad Taste. It took me a few moments to calm down.

My arty friends were not impressed. They're not my friends any more.

Great posh popcorn, though!
(CADmonkey rollllllllled another one, just like the other one, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 21:41, 5 replies)

*SPOILER*

( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 0:14, closed)

I don't think that's The Lost Highway

(Captain Skippy pooed in a bag and left it on your doorstep, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 5:35, closed)

The Interwebs have speked:
www.joblo.com/arrow/reviews.php?id=555

"We get quick glimpses of a decapitated body, one hell of a howler gore scene involving a head and the corner of a coffee table, a slit throat and gunshot wounds. "

So glad I didn't have to watch it again
(CADmonkey rollllllllled another one, just like the other one, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 9:35, closed)

I stand corrected.
Can't say I was really paying attention when I saw it, so I'm not that surprised to be wrong. I am surprised that it was evidently more shit than I remembered.
(Captain Skippy pooed in a bag and left it on your doorstep, Sat 24 Jul 2010, 11:39, closed)

I think it is Lost highway
But it's technically not the end of the fillum.
(mr-lizard Hell's teeth man!, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 15:59, closed)