Twin Peaks – Fire Walk with Me (1992)
78%RT Audience Score: 78%
Awards & Nominations: 4 wins & 7 nominations
For better or worse, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me is every bit as strange and twisted as you’d expect from David Lynch
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me is a wild ride that will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about David Lynch. Critics may be divided, but one thing is for sure – this movie is not for the faint of heart. With its dreamlike sequences and disturbing imagery, it’s no wonder that some viewers find it hard to stomach. But for those who are willing to take the plunge, Fire Walk With Me is a masterpiece that will haunt you long after the credits roll. So grab some cherry pie and a damn fine cup of coffee, and get ready for a journey into the heart of darkness.
Production Company(ies)
Columbia Pictures,
Distributor
NA
Release Type
Filming Location(s)
708 33rd St, Everett, Washington, USA
MPAA / Certificate
Rated R for strong violence, sex, and drug content, and for language
Year of Release
1992
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Dolby Stereo
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Aspect ratio:1.85 : 1
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Runtime:NA
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Language(s):English
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Streaming): Feb 26, 2002
Genre(s)
Crime/Drama
Keyword(s)
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Worldwide gross: $4,184,990
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $8,958,078
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 2,001
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 976,890
US/Canada gross: $4,160,851
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): $8,906,408
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,653
US/Canada opening weekend: $1,813,559
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $3,881,969
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,136
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): $10,000,000
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): $21,405,256
Production budget ranking: 1,337
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): $11,526,730
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): -$23,973,908
ROI to date (est.): -73%
ROI ranking: 1,821
Sheryl Lee – Laura Palmer
Moira Kelly – Donna Hayward
David Bowie – Phillip Jeffries
Chris Isaak – Special Agent Chester Desmond
Harry Dean Stanton – Carl Rodd
Director(s)
David Lynch
Writer(s)
NA
Producer(s)
Gregg Fienberg
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
4 wins & 7 nominations
Academy Awards
All Critics (75) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (48) | Rotten (27)
David Lynch’s prequel film, maligned upon its initial release, can now be seen as a hinge in his filmography – and a hint of what’s to come.
May 19, 2017
Jason Bailey
Flavorwire
TOP CRITIC
In its own singular, deeply strange way, Fire Walk With Me is David Lynch’s masterpiece.
December 13, 2013 | Rating: 4/4
Calum Marsh
Village Voice
TOP CRITIC
There have always been two sides to Lynch: the inscrutable, demonic prankster and the rhapsodic dreamer. In Fire Walk With Me, he’s at least trying to recover his poetic sincerity. If only his dreams weren’t starting to look like reruns.
May 3, 2013 | Rating: C
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
TOP CRITIC
At its best, it’s a dream within a dream, a nightmare in endlessly reflecting pop mirrors, a screen full of TV-movie sex and horror kitsch blowing up right in our faces.
May 3, 2013 | Rating: 3/5
Michael Wilmington
Los Angeles Times
TOP CRITIC
In Twin Peaks the movie, all the twists get straightened out. The thrill is gone.
May 3, 2013 | Rating: 2.5/4
Steven Rea
Philadelphia Inquirer
TOP CRITIC
For those who are willing to go the distance with Lynch, the return trip to Twin Peaks is well worth the trouble.
May 3, 2013
Jay Boyar
Orlando Sentinel
TOP CRITIC
Lynch explores how evil influence plays a macabre role in the corruption of goodness, of everything that is sweet and innocent.
May 6, 2019 | Rating: 5/5
C.H. Newell
Father Son Holy Gore
The world of Twin Peaks is dense, terrifying, and seductive all at once. Fire Walk with Me has all these trademarks but also presented the reality that David Lynch will never succumb to audience expectation, no matter how rabid they might be.
October 30, 2018 | Rating: 5/5
Sean Mulvihill
FanboyNation.com
Engages with the psychological onslaught of the senses that is stirred by trauma in such a furious, intimate way that… the simple act of looking at a framed image of Laura Palmer can send electricity up our spinal cords.
October 16, 2018
Dom Nero
Esquire Magazine
Weirdness abounds, but is always depicted in Lynch’s highly stylized, painterly manner. He loves to dwell on images languorously, whether they are horrific or pastoral.
April 23, 2018
Owen McNally
Hartford Courant
Twin Peaks: The Return elevates FWWM from a questionably necessary prequel movie to an essential piece of a far larger and suddenly more cohesive mythology.
December 13, 2017
Austin Trunick
Under the Radar
As hard as it may be to watch, Fire Walk With Me is a beautiful, underrated movie that is essential to Twin Peaks.
July 20, 2017
Zachary Doiron
Film Inquiry…
Plot
Essentially a prequel to David Lynch and Mark Frost’s earlier TV series “Twin Peaks”. The first half-hour or so concerns the investigation by FBI Agent Chet Desmond (Chris Isaak) and his partner Sam Stanley (Kiefer Sutherland) into the murder of night-shift waitress Teresa Banks in the small Washington state town of Deer Meadow. When Desmond finds a mysterious clue to the murder, he inexplicably disappears. The film then cuts to one year later in the nearby town of Twin Peaks and follows the events during the last week in the life of Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) a troubled teenage girl with two boyfriends; the hot-tempered rebel Bobby Briggs (Dana Ashbrook) and quiet biker James Hurley (James Marshall), her drug addiction, and her relationship with her difficult (and possible schizophrenic) father Leland (Ray Wise), a story in which her violent murder was later to motivate much of the TV series. Contains a considerable amount of sex, drugs, violence, very loud music and inexplicable imagery.
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
The cast of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me includes Kyle MacLachlan, Sheryl Lee, Moira Kelly, David Bowie, Chris Isaak, and Harry Dean Stanton.
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