Lost Highway

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Lost Highway

R

1997

2h 15m

Mystery & Thriller

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From this inventory of imagery, Lynch fashions two separate but intersecting stories, one about a jazz musician (Bill Pullman), tortured by the notion that his wife is having an affair, who suddenly finds himself accused of her murder. The other is a young mechanic (Balthazar Getty) drawn into a web of deceit by a temptress who is cheating on her gangster boyfriend. These two tales are linked by the fact that the women in both are played by the same actress (Patricia Arquette).

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Critics Consensus

Marking a further escalation in David Lynch's surrealist style, Lost Highway is a foreboding mystery that arguably leads to a dead end, although it is signposted throughout with some of the director's most haunting images yet.

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Kelly Burke

Sydney Morning Herald

Apr 29

More mood than matter, Lost Highway is nevertheless worth experiencing. Just don't expect to make sense of it.

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Kevin Maher

The Times (UK)

12/16/2024

5/5

Forget about vampires, zombies and the undead, this is true horror.

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Richard Brody

The New Yorker

07/05/2022

Lynch brings the movie’s febrile and violent artifice to life in visual compositions of a poised, painterly authority and interrupts them with quick bursts of hallucinatory frenzy.

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Patrick Cavanaugh

The Wolfman Cometh

Sep 12

4/5

Possibly David Lynch's best blend of a cohesive narrative mixed with otherworldly elements.

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Chance Solem-Pfeifer

Willamette Week

02/12/2025

Evil flows like an invisible current through Lost Highway, one of Lynch’s feel-bad best.

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Noah Berlatsky

Everything is Horrible (Substack)

01/23/2025

Lynch refuses to commit to any clear theme beyond the standard misogynist noir trope that women who have sexual autonomy are evil and maybe deserve to be murdered.

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Jonny

03/23/2025

amazing. chilling and artful. beautiful

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Jadan S

03/22/2025

This film was the closest experience I've had that was akin to experiencing a dream while fully awake. Make no mistake, you will be lost while watching this. But it is 100% worth the journey.

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Peter

03/22/2025

I don't know how to rate it. I hated it and loved it at the same.

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T C

@RT19842617 4d

I'm a longtime Lynch fan and I have no problem saying that this is one of the two worst movies I have seen by anybody, any time, anywhere. It's a maddeningly nonsensical pastiche of sometimes arresting scenarios, gratuitous images, and utterly unbaked ideas. Hmm, come to think of it, maybe you have to be baked to watch this thing. I wasn't, but I did join in with the theater audience in the last 20 minutes, when we couldn't take it anymore and shouted comical barbs at the screen. Now THAT experience rates 5 stars.

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Owen Z.

@Hotebylaw Mar 6

Really cool. Great soundtrack. A lot of good lore around this, worth reading the wiki.

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Carlos I

@carlosFibarra Feb 6

David Lynch’s Lost Highway is a disorienting descent into a fractured psyche, serving as the epitome of the nightmare imagery that Lynch is famously associated with. It operates on a frequency of pure dread, utilizing a haunting soundscape and surreal, jarring transitions to explore themes of identity and guilt. Beyond its avant-garde abstractions, it's a solid, tense thriller that grips you with a sense of inescapable claustrophobia, refusing to provide easy answers while it lingers in your mind like a fever dream.

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Synopsis

From this inventory of imagery, Lynch fashions two separate but intersecting stories, one about a jazz musician (Bill Pullman), tortured by the notion that his wife is having an affair, who suddenly finds himself accused of her murder. The other is a young mechanic (Balthazar Getty) drawn into a web of deceit by a temptress who is cheating on her gangster boyfriend. These two tales are linked by the fact that the women in both are played by the same actress (Patricia Arquette).

Director: David Lynch
Producer: Deepak Nayar, Tom Sternberg, Mary Sweeney
Screenwriter: David Lynch, Barry Gifford
Distributor: October Films
Production Co: October Films, Lost Highway Productions, Asymmetrical Productions
Rating: R (Strong Language|Sexual Content|Violence)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 21, 1997, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 13, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $18.0K
Runtime: 2h 15m
Sound Mix: Dolby Stereo, Dolby Digital, Dolby A, Surround, Dolby SR
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)