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CAPSULE: TWIN PEAKS (PILOT) (1990)

DIRECTED BY: David Lynch

FEATURING: Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Ray Wise, Grace Zabriske, Lara Flynn Boyle, James Marshall, Sherilyn Fenn, Jack Nance, Sheryl Lee

PLOT: The murder of a homecoming queen brings an eccentric FBI agent to a small

Northwestern town seething with secrets. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Despite being among the best . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: TWIN PEAKS (PILOT) (1990)

RECOMMENDED AS WEIRD: SINGAPORE SLING [Singapore sling: O anthropos pou agapise ena ptoma] (1990)

DIRECTED BY: Nikos Nikolaidis

FEATURING: Meredyth Herold, Michele Valley, Panos Thanassoulis

PLOT: An alcoholic detective searches for a lost love, presumably dead, and ends up a

captive of two psychotic women. The women (a mother and daughter) ceaselessly torture the helpless and incapacitated victim. He remains mute as they participate in bizarre sexual . . . → Read More: RECOMMENDED AS WEIRD: SINGAPORE SLING [Singapore sling: O anthropos pou agapise ena ptoma] (1990)

19. THE REFLECTING SKIN (1990)

“You been exploding frogs again?”–Ruth Dove

 

DIRECTED BY: Philip Ridley

FEATURING:  Jeremy Cooper, Viggo Mortensen, Lindsay Duncan

PLOT:  Over-imaginative young Seth, growing up in post-World War II rural USA, comes to believe that his widowed neighbor is actually a vampire.  After his father dies in unexpected fashion, the older brother he adores returns from . . . → Read More: 19. THE REFLECTING SKIN (1990)

11. JACOB’S LADDER (1990)

“Something weird is going on here.  What is it about us?  Even in ‘Nam it was always weird.  Are we all crazy or something?” –line in original screenplay to Jacob’s Ladder

DIRECTED BY: Adrian Lyne

FEATURING: Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Danny Aiello

PLOT:  Jacob Singer (nicknamed ”Professor” by his army buddies due to his . . . → Read More: 11. JACOB’S LADDER (1990)

10. ARCHANGEL (1990)

“And we are here as on a darkling plain

Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,

Where ignorant armies clash by night.”

–Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach” (quote originally intended to introduce Archangel)

DIRECTED BY: Guy Maddin

FEATURING: Kyle McCulloch, Kathy Marykuca

PLOT: In 1919, one-legged Canadian airman Lt. John Boles finds his way to the . . . → Read More: 10. ARCHANGEL (1990)

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