Baffling his core Twin Peaks audience and many critics, Fire Walk With Me was Lynch’s unclassifiable prequel to the miraculously surreal broadcast television show that had come to an abrupt end. The film version allowed Lynch to resurrect Twin Peaks’ near-mythic prom queen Laura Palmer from the dead—tapping into the show’s foreboding metaphysical circularity and digging viscerally into the sinister underbelly of the idyllic Washington town. Beginning with the antics of quirky FBI agents trying to decode a murder mystery and apparent tear in the continuum, any eccentric comforts of Twin Peaks—including the show’s star Special Agent Dale Cooper—sink back and the film takes a delirious dive into Laura’s complex, tortured existence. With a breathtaking, emotionally exhausting performance by Sheryl Lee, the film exposes the uncanniness of a horror that unfolds in broad daylight, one that transforms familiar people and mundane objects into otherworldly vessels of terror. Laura’s descent into the maelstrom—of this world and another—is also a tale of sexual abuse; in Lynch’s universe, the psychological and supernatural are so intertwined they become indistinguishable, resulting in a direct hit to the central nervous system. Too much for audiences to fully grasp at the time, Fire Walk With Me now enjoys its rightful reassessment as one of the greatest films of the 90s and essential in the Lynch oeuvre.