The Short Films of David Lynch
Genres
Overview
This collection of David Lynch's short films covers the first 29 years of his career. Four of his earliest underground films—Six Figures Getting Sick (1966), The Alphabet (1968), The Grandmother (1970) and The Amputee (1974)—are showcased, as well as two works from further into his career—The Cowboy and the Frenchman (1988) and Premonitions Following an Evil Deed (1995)—which were originally released as segments of anthology projects. Each film is given a special introduction by the director.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
95 min
Release Date
2002-02-20
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
66
Vote Average
7.053
David Lynch
Self
Catherine E. Coulson
Amputee
Harry Dean Stanton
Slim
Jack Nance
Pete
Frederic Golchan
Pierre
Tracey Walter
Dusty
Michael Horse
Broken Feather
Richard White
Mike
Dorothy McGinnis
Grandmother
Virginia Maitland
Mother
Robert Chadwick
Father
Peggy Reavey
Girl
6.7
Altered States
A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, time, and perhaps reality itself are states of mind.
1980-12-25 | en
6.5
New Nightmare
Cast and crew from A Nightmare on Elm Street are terrorized by Freddy Krueger and his razor-fingered glove as he crosses over into the real world.
1994-10-13 | en
0.0
Henri Matisse
Documentary film about artist Henri Matisse
1946-04-16 | fr
8.0
The ErlKing
This animated short is a visual representation of Goethe's poem, The ErlKing that uses sand-on-glass animation set to the music of Franz Schubert. The moving images, resembling woodcuts, capture the haunting, nightmarish quality of the tale of the ErlKing who steals and kills a little boy.
2003-01-16 | en
0.0
Halloween Party
Eight-minute promotional reel for Night of the Demons (1988), which was shown to potential distributors in 1987. This short version of the film was later re-released by Shout! Factory in 2023 to coincide with their new 4K restoration.
1987-10-21 | en
5.6
Scare Package
Chad Buckley is a horror aficionado, and he's lonely. Chad spends his days at his struggling genre video store arguing with his only regular customer, Sam. When an unsuspecting applicant shows up, Chad begins to teach him about the rules of horror and his video store at large, much to the chagrin of Sam. During Chad's on-boarding process, we weave in and out of different hilarious horror shorts, each one geared at a different set of horror tropes. As this new applicant learns the ropes, he begins to suspect Chad of something sinister, but we quickly learn that he may have a secret of his own.
2019-10-04 | en
10.0
Stories of Strength and Hope: Preventing Youth Suicide
An up-to-date look at Youth Suicide with an examination of the warning signs, statistics and causes, along with possible ways teachers and parents can use to help their child overcome this important social issue. Also includes a look at the media and its handling of the social issue through the Netflix series "13 Reasons Why" and the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, "Dear Evan Hansen."
2018-05-16 | en
6.7
Ride
Spin classes can be a bit intimidating. But for Brit, the fear is real when her first class turns into a ride for her life.
2019-10-01 | en
7.0
Dedicado a nadie
Fabiana is a shy and lonely girl. A man from darkness comes to visit her. She finds friendship in him, but are those his real intentions?
2008-10-31 | es
3.4
Cruel Will
Tragedy strikes married couple Paul and Lily, when Lily's father dies. Lily has her father cremated, brings the urn home and now Paul has to come to terms with the death of his father-in-law whom he had despised. The situation gets a bit frayed when the lid to the urn mysteriously disappears, and Paul begins to experience happenings no one else is aware of.
2013-12-30 | en
6.0
Fallas 37: el arte en guerra
In November 1936, a few months since the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, the government of the Second Republic moves to Valencia. In this situation, several Valencian artists and intellectuals decide to build four fallas — satirical plasterboard sculptures created to be burnt — to mock fascism.
2013-03-02 | es
0.0
HABITAT
In a dead-end room lives a slave of the system, addicted to the computer mouse and a reality show that never ends. Obsessed with an illusion, his dream is to go to the paradise that he has seen in a TV commercial...with just a flick of a finger.
2021-11-18 | en
5.9
Ascent to Hell
When a realtor shows an old New York factory building to a group of would-be investors, they are unwittingly caught in its tragic and sinister history.
2017-03-16 | en
5.8
Trick
A detective tries to track down a masked killer who reappears every Halloween to wreak bloody havoc.
2019-10-18 | en
7.0
Open House
A woman looking to start a new job in real estate must confront the horrors of her childhood.
2020-01-01 | en
6.0
Frankenstein
Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done, Frankenstein is comforted by his fiancée; but on his wedding night he is visited by the monster.
1910-03-18 | en
6.7
The Lost World
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
1925-02-02 | en
5.9
Roar
Roar follows a family who are attacked by various African animals at the secluded home of their keeper.
1981-10-30 | en
0.0
Smog
Thick, deadly smog blankets the globe, reducing visibility to less than a few metres. In a secluded farmhouse, a woman and her overbearing husband attempt to find resources and survive using a series of walking trails crafted from ropes and stakes. One night, the woman is alerted to the presence of someone or something else deep in the smog. Desperate to escape the farmhouse, the woman attempts to meet the unknown and risk everything to leave her loveless and abusive relationship behind.
2022-07-30 | en
0.0
Juncture
In the wake of a significant traumatic event, an emotional rift develops between a father and son as both struggle to come to terms with their grief. At night, the boy is haunted by a mysterious entity who is determined for vengeance.
2017-03-29 | en