Lost Highway 1997

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 135 min

theme: neo-noir

director: David Lynch

Score: 7 / 10

Lost Highway is a 1997 neo-noir film directed by David Lynch and co-written by Lynch and Barry Gifford. It stars Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty, and Robert Blake. The film follows a musician (Pullman) who begins receiving mysterious VHS tapes of him and his wife (Arquette) in their home, and who is suddenly convicted of murder, after which he inexplicably disappears and is replaced by a young mechanic (Getty) leading a different life.

Plot

Fred Madison, a Los Angeles saxophonist, receives a message on his house intercom: "Dick Laurent is dead." The next morning, his wife Renee finds a VHS tape on their porch containing a video of their house. After having sex, Fred tells her he had a dream about someone resembling her being attacked, he then sees Renee's face as that of a pale old man. As the days pass, more tapes arrive, showing shots of them asleep in their bed. Fred and Renee call the police but the detectives offer no assistance. Fred and Renee attend a party being thrown by her friend Andy. The Mystery Man that Fred dreamed about approaches Fred, claiming to have met him before. The man then says he is at Fred's house at that very moment and answers the house phone when Fred calls him. Fred learns from Andy that the man is a friend of Dick Laurent's. Terrified, Fred leaves the party with Renee. The next morning, another tape arrives and Fred watches it alone. To his horror, it shows him hovering over Renee's dismembered body. He is sentenced to death for her murder.

Cast

More details

author	Barry Gifford David Lynch
contentLocation	Los Angeles
director	David Lynch
editor	Mary Sweeney
keywords	attack burn cadillac claim death row dismembered body film follow morning mystery man old house old man phone call porn producer prison guard scream search tailgater vhs vhs tape video camera
musicBy	Angelo Badalamenti
producer	Mary Sweeney
productionCompany	Ciby 2000
publisher	October Films
recordedAt	California Los Angeles North Carolina
theme	avant-garde and experimental independent narrative neo-noir surreal