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Browsing reddit for a horror movie to watch, I saw this one recommended a couple times. Something dealing with a more psychological aspect always interests me, so I decided to give it a shot. Sadly, I was disappointed. Small spoilers may follow (descriptions of small scenes) but nothing that will ruin the plot or the entirety of the described scene.

The movie doesn't really do a good job at... well, anything. Its plot is rather simple (not always bad) and several things were never entirely explained, such as the actual cause of what's going on as well as why some of the characters in the movie seem to just completely ignore the main character and his cries for help. There's a part (not to ruin anything) where he's shouting at someone that he just saw someone get killed and the guy he's shouting at doesn't even look him in the eye. At first I thought this was part of whatever was going on in this movie, until the "creatures" killed that guy only seconds later.

Additionally, several scenes in this movie seem implausible. While I'm aware horror's not supposed to be real, a couple scenes just defy logic, such as the creatures walking RIGHT past him at one point to attack some completely silent stranger further away from their point of entry. At times, it feels like the director forces illogical things to happen just to force conflict. Not to ruin anything again but there's a part where he has to break the door into his own house, leaving it vulnerable in the future. This is never explained, as it is made clear that it's his own house before this scene.

As for scares... Well I don't look for scares in horror movies. I look more for creepy. This movie, sadly, has neither. The creatures look like uninspired zombies (yet they're not zombies) and there's no scares, legitimate or jump-scare.

The movie's conclusion sort of just... ends. All in all, I want that hour and a half of my life back.

I'm all for surrealism, hidden messages, and hidden meanings in films but, when your film's ONLY meaning is the hidden meaning and viewing it any other way is just a jumble of nonsensical scenes with an incoherent narrative, I have a problem. Especially when you (or rather David Lynch) refuses to even remotely explain the movie. I guess that sense of mystery and interpretation may have some appeal to others but, to me, this is hands down the worst film I have ever seen. I don't mean I dislike it. I mean it is LITERALLY at the bottom of the list of movies I've seen.

To elaborate a bit, I've looked up several interpretations of the film and not a single one of them made the movie any better for me.