Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Theatrical release poster
Directed byDavid Lynch
Screenplay by
Based onTwin Peaks
by Mark Frost
David Lynch
Produced byGregg Fienberg
Starring
CinematographyRon Garcia
Edited byMary Sweeney
Music byAngelo Badalamenti
Production
company
Distributed by
Release dates
  • May 16, 1992 (1992-5-16) (Cannes)
  • July 3, 1992 (1992-7-3) (France)
  • August 28, 1992 (1992-8-28) (United States)
Running time
134 minutes[1]
Countries
  • France
  • United States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$10–12 million
Box office$4.2 million (North America)[2]

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me is a 1992 psychological horror film[3][4] directed by David Lynch, and co-written by Lynch and Robert Engels. It serves as a prequel to seasons one and two of the television series Twin Peaks (1990–1991), created and produced by Mark Frost and Lynch. It begins with the FBI's investigation into the murder of Teresa Banks (Pamela Gidley) before shifting to the last seven days of the life of Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee), a popular-but-troubled high school student in the fictional town of Twin Peaks, Washington. Palmer's murder was the primary plot thread of the TV series.

Greenlit shortly after the TV series was cancelled, Fire Walk with Me had a much darker tone than the TV series and did not address many of season two's unfinished narratives, including its cliffhanger ending. Although most of the television cast reprised their roles for the film, many comparatively lighthearted scenes featuring town residents were cut. In addition, the series' main star, Kyle MacLachlan (Dale Cooper), asked for his role to be downsized, and Lara Flynn Boyle's character Donna Hayward was recast with Moira Kelly. In 2014, several deleted scenes were recut into a narrative and released as Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces.

Fire Walk with Me premiered at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival in competition for the Palme d'Or. The film was notoriously polarizing: Lynch said that the film was booed at Cannes, and the American press generally panned the film. The film was controversial for its frank and vivid depiction of parental sexual abuse, its relative absence of fan-favorite characters, and its surrealistic style. The film was a box-office bomb in North America, but fared better in Japan and France. Due to the poor reception, plans for two sequels were abandoned. However, the film has been positively reevaluated in the 21st century, and is now widely regarded as one of Lynch's major works. Lynch and Frost eventually received funding to produce a third season of the TV series in 2017, which revisited several plot threads from the film. In 2019, the British Film Institute ranked Fire Walk with Me the fourth-best film of the 1990s.

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  3. ^ Grein, Paul (2020). "Oscar Winner Hildur Guðnadóttir Reveals Her 5 Favorite Film Scores". Billboard. Penske Media Corporation. Archived from the original on May 21, 2020. Retrieved November 23, 2020. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me: Angelo Badalamenti created the music for David Lynch's psychological horror film from 1992
  4. ^ Grierson, Tim (August 25, 2021). "The Week in Genre History: 'Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me' burned David Lynch then became a classic". Syfy. Retrieved March 4, 2025.

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