Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

Like many of the TV show's hardcore fans, David Lynch became disillusioned with Twin Peaks' journey from a groundbreaking, excoriating peek into America's small-town underbelly into a cute parade of oddball soap-operatics in under two years.

This big screen version gave him licence to bring it all back to basics, and he grabbed it with both hands: even in Lynch-land, with all its ear-severing, head-exploding, exploitation and rough sex, there's nothing so dark and demented as Fire Walk With Me, the simplest, strangest, saddest and arguably greatest of all his films.