In Heaven Everything is fine

[Puzzledtraveller]

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[HarveyDarkey]

1. No it isn't

[nomorenomore08]

2. Creepiest movie ever... It just has this indescribable *wrongness* to it...

[Puzzledtraveller]

3. Indeed, you feel you shouldn't be seeing what you are seeing

it's alien and nightmarish, wrongness turned right-side up, naked and visible.

[Ron Obvious]

4. It took me three attempts to get through it...

And I'm a big David Lynch fan too. Tip: don't watch if already feeling depressed or melancholy.

I agree about the song. It's totally creepy. The way the lyrics go from "You've got yours and I've got mine" to "You've got yours and you've got mine" in the little, resigned voice...

[Puzzledtraveller]

7. I have heard and read similar from several people.

About taking so many attempts to view it, one critic went so far as to say it elicits a sense of anxiety every time they watched it. That song gets stuck in your head, it did mine anyway and that is why I had posted it that day.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. OMG, that movie creeped me out more than anything I've ever seen.

Saw it in a theatre back in the late '70s. It is about the most fucked-up thing you'll ever see without there being a lot of actual violence. It's just creepy and disturbing and wrong.

[Puzzledtraveller]

6. That would have been something to see it then at a theater.

It's fame was due partly to it's success on the midnight movie scene, something you do not see much of anymore these days. Growing up I recall hearing about it but I would have been to young to see it. I had only recently dove back into Lynch and can you believe it was the only thing I had not seen? I remedied that ASAP and have to agree completely with most assessments. It is wrong in a way that defies and rejects description. I tried recently to describe and the best I came up with is being witness to someones nightmare in the most literal sense.

[Demo_Chris]

8. I have never seen this. Need to do so definately...

That was a very disturbing scene.

[cemaphonic]

9. One thing that really makes that scene so powerful is the sound design

That swirling, hissing droning noise at the beginning and end of this clip goes through almost the entire movie - it's grating and annoying, but it flies under the sensory radar pretty early on thanks to the brain's ability to tune out constant sensory input, as well as all of the other fucked-up stuff that the film has you paying attention to. Still, it's there, constantly adding to the sense of anxiety and dread, and it's a real visceral, physical relief when it lets up for a few moments for the song.

Tough movie to watch, but a real classic. Lynch really nailed the sweet spot between creepy disjointed surrealism and coherent narrative in a way that few other movies have ever done.