By Chance Solem-Pfeifer February 11, 2025 at 3:27 pm PST Lost Highway (1997) Lost Highway poses one of David Lynch’s deepest pet questions—from where does unspeakable violence originate?

David Lynch was incredibly influential, which is why it's so strange he spent 40 years being unable to realize one of his greatest passion projects.

In 1970, David Lynch moved to Los Angeles to study filmmaking at the American Film Institute. Around that time, he began working on the script for a surreal horror film called Gardenback.

Ahead of 1997's Lost Highway, Lynch reached out to Nine Inch Nails frontman and future two-time Academy Award winner Trent Reznor, who at that point had scored only one other film, 1994's Natural Born ...

Ahead of 1997's Lost Highway, Lynch reached out to Nine Inch Nails frontman and future two-time Academy Award winner Trent Reznor, who at that point had scored only one other film, 1994's Natural ...

Ahead of 1997's Lost Highway, Lynch reached out to Nine Inch Nails frontman and future two-time Academy Award winner Trent Reznor, who at that point had scored only one other film, 1994's Natural ...

Ahead of 1997's Lost Highway, Lynch reached out to Nine Inch Nails frontman and future two-time Academy Award winner Trent Reznor, who at that point had scored only one other film, 1994's Natural ...