i did not watch the first airing of Twin Peaks... BUT... i was not aware of david lynch's style. i hadnt seen any of his movies. i was yelled at by a friend when i told them i hadn't seen Twin Peaks. then i watched it and god, i was not expecting ANY super natural anything's happening in that show. i'll never forget that feeling. also when The Return finally aired it was magical to see 25 year old promise kept
For those who didn't, watch *Too Many Cooks. It takes you through that kind of emotional experience. From warm, homely, perfectly sweet and impossibly pristine, to... other places.*
@@thesaltmerchant4564 I was disappointed that Maddy wasn't in the movie because I kind of had my heart set on seeing her naked. Felt pretty dumb when I finally realized who the actress was.
i think that had something to do with windom earle's face appearing out of thin air at 1:08, if he was scared of laura he would have ran away as soon as she started screaming. then again, however, she DID start running at him when he decided to bail out so... honestly who knows LOL
Something I've noticed is that the actress does something I rarely ever see when actors scream in rage. She actually shakes while she's screaming. It's like the actress gave a primal guttural scream of real rage for her performance.
I second that. Her Fire Walk With Me performance ranks as one of the single greatest acting feats I've ever seen. It's incredible that she hasn't had more of a career afterwards.
it is reversed so it gives a extra creepyness to it but sheryll really screams her heart out. it gives me goosebumps. the one at the end of season 3 is the best one I've ever heard
Fast forward 7 years into the future. To a time when Virtual Reality tech has finally progressed far enough to actually deliver VR headsets with proper quality VR experiences... Here I sit, looking at my Oculus Quest II, wondering what this scene would look like viewed in VR...
don't think people got that this was point where Dale was lost. Deputy Hawk had warned him that if he showed fear,The Black Lodge would utterly annihilate his soul. Bob then took Dale's soul along with Wyndam Earl's.
actually people do consider him a horror director bc his movies are so unsettling, well I know twin peaks FWWM and eraserhead are definitely consider horror movies. A lot of people actually consider twin peaks to be a horror show too, even tough the second season was shit
+Landon Le. It was only "shit" to the people that didn't see the value in it after the murder of Laura Palmer was solved. Sure, it dragged on, but it gradually culminated (the last 6 episodes) into the bizarre, surreal association of fear and psychological fuckery.
adt2695 yeah the second season became a huge embarrassing laughable mess. I know the show was known for its humor too because it balance out the supernatural, but in season 2 they overdid the quirky comedy with annoying subplots like that orphan boy and lana, who wasn't even hot btw. Maybe season 3 will have the perfect balance and EVERYBODY in twin peaks will be effected by the supernatural(aka BOB) not some stupid filler story like the fighting over the mill house or the horne's "environmental" issues.
Landon Le, I didn't really realize you even responded to me, but you evidently stopped completely giving a shit about it after season 2, episode 10 or 11, where Leland Palmer died. That would be well into the second season, so it would be the *second half* of the season where it dragged on that you'd be talking about. Up until at least the last 3 episodes, if not the last 6, at the most. Let me make the obvious known, it's clear they disguised this as a serial drama, screwball and cheesy comedy, with the indentations of strange, surreal and psychologically thrilling. It adeptly provided you with that and never pushed it to the point of redundancy. Maybe it was a little too sparse. Then again, he barely directed the episodes, however he wrote all of them in conjunction with Mark Frost. I could go extremely deep into it because I really care to, but I won't.
It's so easy to see how Lynch just hired Cheryl Lee to be the dead body and then just insisted on finding ways to keep her on the show. She's fucking phenomenal
There is something about this that resonates with me. Laura’s shadow, her doppelgänger. The scream and her movements are a pure reaction to the trauma she has endured. It is both devastating and full of rage. Perhaps it is a projection. But it is cathartic
you are right - it is exactly that. I am grieving and raging and her scream is cathartic. It releases something in the mind that I don't always feel I can do
@@tripunk And the climbing all over the furniture with her shoes on, what do you make of that? Also, who exactly is the banshee shriek directed at here? Who is she pissed off with, if anyone?
@@Tumbledweeb Her behavior and disposition, the doppelganger, representing Laura's 'shadow self', the darker side of her, you can see her anger, rage, disbelief, pain, confusion at her predicament in the real world before her death all manifested in the entity's spastic, almost uncontrolled movements. Laura could feel resentment towards many things and people, however irrational it may be, for perceived slights: why was she 'abandoned', why did no one save her, why did she have to suffer such a horrible fate, why is she still not at peace even after death etc
@@Tumbledweeb It seems in the world of TP that either everyone, or everyone who enters the Lodges has a "shadow self" or doppelganger, as Hawk told Cooper once prior to Season 3. Laura is shown in Season 3 to be an essence of pure light and goodness, which is the opposite of BOB, yet she has a doppelganger as well. Take note of how The Arm's doppelganger decides to alert Coop to the presence of Laura's doppelganger at one point. Interesting "motivations" behind these entities. Even despite The Arm's very origin being the literal detached arm from MIKE (who himself apparently used to be evil but became good at some point), he somehow has the ability to have a shadow self. Fascinating stuff.
The fact that she did not become the biggest star ever astonishes me. Her performance in Fire Walk With Me is Oscar worthy....and that scream...holy fuck...
When I was watching this for the first time - I was scared. While rewatching knowing what really happened - I was crying for the girl, whose soul is screaming in agony, with no peace even after death. Poor Laura...
That must be part of it, yes. For me, there's also the thought that Laura is expressing her anger that no one was there to help her when she was still alive.
Thank you Sheryl Lee. Worked at a haunted house this year and her and her iconic screams were my influence when scaring people. I've gotten groups of grown men to run out of the room
Lynch has a great talent to show how a fever dream look and feel like. like in a dream, lot of it feel random, weird, like you shift from scene to scene. even relative can be scary in dreams, especially dead ones.
Sheryl Lee is the greatest screamer of all time. This, Fire Walk With Me... perfect. Even Naomi Watts in Mulholland Drive can't come close and she's a fantastic screamer in her own right
If this is her screaming, it is hear screaming mixed with other sounds as well. Everyone talks about Lynch's images (rightly so), but his sound design is even better and more individual. Some movies have come close to looking like his, but none _sound_ like his.
Even today this scene sends chills down my spine; Cooper is facing a complete abomination, a mockery of life, a vessel of the Black Lodge. The moment the Laura doppelganger shuffles up to him in a hysterical screech, he sees an image of his nemesis, and realizes that Windom Earle is already tampering with the power of the Black Lodge. He quickly nopes outta there, desperate more now than ever to find the man within that place, and hopefully more answers.
I don't blame you. First we get the LMFAP as a doppleganger, then we get Laura as one, screaming her head off as she comes right at us; then some face appears over Laura's , then we're left alone with her after Cooper flies the Coop!
I never noticed it before, and I've seen this episode many times since I saw it upon first airing in 1991, but Laura here climbs backward over the couch just like Bob in reverse during season two episode two. There's a suggested connection between the two. Notice also that at the end of this clip the blackness and strobe lighting around Laura transports us back to her death in the boxcar, as seen in both season two episode one and FWWM.
Seeing this clip on it's own, I never realized Lealand's distorted looking face blinks into view a few times once Laura gets right up in coop's face. Makes the scene immensely more spooky.
Heard a rumor that Illangelo sampled this scream for The Weeknd’s song, The Hills, and I believe it. With some mixing and editing, it’s definitely possible because I have never heard a scream like this ever...
this makes a lot of sense, since Stanley Kubrick has said that not only was Eraserhead his favorite film, but he specifically was inspired by Eraserhead when making The Shining. He apparently made the cast and crew watch it to give them an idea of the tone and mood he wanted to create on The Shining.
Enjoy the ride, it's amazing. But watch it in the order it was made otherwise plot points will be known which would take away so much from a first viewing - S1, S2, Fire Walk with me, S3.
@@jossymWould you recommend a completely new viewer of the series watch everything, as in all seasons and all episodes? I understand the point about plots and keeping up with the story, but I've read some comments saying one of the seasons (can't recall which) was bland and repetitive and should be skipped. Are those people wrong?
@@alexf9381 That's in reference to the latter part of season 2. Very briefly, what happened was that after the success of S1, Lynch never wanted to reveal who Laura Palmer's killer was as he viewed it as the anchor with which everything else in the show clung to. The network forced his hand so it was revealed in episode 7 of the 2nd season. Some point shortly after that, a fed up David Lynch stepped away and was no longer involved. You can tell by the quality of the writing (was as if those in his place were trying to write in his style - which is impossible). He returned though at the end and made huge rewrites to completed scripts, rescuing the show from finishing poorly (this clip is from the S02 finale). Although I'm biased as a big fan of the show, I rewatched the whole lot a few months back and I thought the 2nd half of S02 was better than I had remembered. This could just be personal preference though and maybe you won't agree. I still believe that to truly appreciate the whole thing, you need to watch it all (in the order I stated in my previous comment). Don't forget - Fire walk with me was universally panned by all the critics when it was released and bombed at the box office. Now it's considered by many as Lynch's finest work (I always thought it was great, but again that could just be because I am a fan). I would advise trying to watch it all, but in terms of quality that part of season 2 where Lynch wasn't involved is the weakest. But if you stick it out, you'll get your rewards with what follows.
I remember the first time I watched this. When Laura walks towards the screen while screaming, I vividly remember trying to back away because it felt like she was coming for me. One of the scariest things I’ve ever seen
Only a simple scream and this scene scared the shit out of me.What horror movies with demons,possessions etc etc,this scream is more scarry than most of the new horror movies are now.
I hate myself for not realizing earlier before that Laura's screaming was sampled in Marilyn Manson's Wrapped In Plastic; took me like 10 goddamn years!
I know, right? I watched the show only a few years ago, but I also noticed it in the song. I actually got suspicious when I saw the title of the song after watching the show. It's taken from one of the very first lines spoken in the pilot episode. "She's dead. Wrapped in plastic." So I gave the song a listen, and there was her shriek! I was also hoping that it was her scream sampled for The Weeknd's song "The Hills" but apparently that's from "The hills have eyes" remake. :(
I actually thought the Windham Earle plot was fine. Not as good as Bob, but still alright. My problem with the second half of season two was the Shelley, Bobby and Leo subplot, the James Hurley subplot, the Annie and Cooper subplot, and especially the Nadine and Mike subplot. My god. What the hell were they thinking when they did that to Nadine?
This is one of the best moments and the scariest moment of Twin Peaks. Cooper's reaction turned to a oh hell naw and gtfo. This is David Lynch at his best.
my mom always talked about this show and how much it terrified her when she was younger. one of the reasons was that a schoolmate of hers developed schizophrenia after getting scared of a scene from the show. apparently, she started screaming and had a full-blown psychotic episode. i always thought maybe this was the scene that scared her...
+Steven Hotcakes I could have sworn it was Laura's shriek in there, but apparently it is not. Kind of a bummer, really. But, yeah, The Hills is why I've returned to Twin Peaks too.
@@minacapella8319 It's a song by The Weeknd, which samples a scream from the horror movie *The Hills Have Eyes* (2006 remake). Apparently, it reminds a lot of people of Laura Palmer's scream here!
First time noticing the Windom Earl face appear during that last scream 1:08 - reminds me of the Jumping Man / Sarah Palmer scene that happens briefly in the Return.
Queen Elizabeth watched this shit. lol She even snubbed Paul McCartney at her own birthday party because "It's almost 8 and I have to watch Twin Peaks"
This is the first time that I've noticed that it's the image of Windom Earle that freaks Coop out and sends him running, not necessarily the screaming.
