Films Just Don't Get Much Better

Rating: 10/10 (26 July 2010)

While not strictly a horror film, "Mulholland Drive" scared me more than most bona fide horror films I've seen. I remember going out to the alley to throw away some trash after watching this movie and looking over my shoulder the whole time.
"Mulholland Drive," while enigmatic, is one of the more accessible of David Lynch's puzzle pictures. Naomi Watts blows the lid off the joint in a tour de force performance as a young woman who goes to Hollywood to become an actress and is swallowed by the rotten jungle that is the city of dreams as it exists in Lynch's brilliant head.
I used to dismiss Lynch as too clinical and cerebral a director. His movies always made me feel bad without understanding why. But after seeing more of his work, I'm struck by the strong, almost aching, emotional quality that pulses through much of it, underneath the visual and narrative sleight-of-hand. "Mulholland Drive" is scary as hell, but it's also deeply sad and moving.
This was the best film of 2001.
Grade: A+