per se<\/em>, but\u00a0it doesn’t stop me questioning why this moment stands out so much \u2013 especially since Lynch conceptualized far scarier evil in multiple ways in Twin Peaks. BOB crawling over the sofa towards the camera; Windom Earle and his Stygian smile; Evil Coop\u2019s jet black eyes; the Trinity Nuclear Test hauntingly soundtracked to\u00a0Krzysztof Penderecki\u2019s ‘Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima’; the fecundation of a dark egg within the mushroom cloud of man\u2019s folly, representing an evil straight from the oneiric recesses of what we never thought imaginable…<\/p>\nRegardless, my mind returns to the screams of a random secondary character who has only one scene, no backstory, and no significance in relation to the wider story. And maybe that\u2019s the point.<\/p>\n
Maybe it’s the unnecessary cruelness of the\u00a0act which leads to a lonely scream, Ruby being the embodiment of all those pushed around by the world and who are\u00a0ignored. Maybe it\u2019s the banality of evil that sends shivers down my spine, leading to the profound fear that being alive but wilfully unseen is terrifying.<\/p>\n
If Carmen Maria Machado is right when she writes \u201cWhen you enter into horror, you\u2019re entering into your own mind, your own anxiety, your own fear, your own darkest spaces\u201d, then does it mean that the thing I\u2019m most afraid of in this world is the mundanity of evil acts and the helplessness one feels when faced with daily horrors? It’s also possible that the Part 15 moment, while seemingly random,\u00a0reflects not only my own insecurities but also the title of the episode, in that\u00a0there\u2019s also great fear in accepting that we all do our best but frequently stumble to the ground. Whether we do it to ourselves or others drag us down.<\/p>\n
Or maybe it’s just because Ruby\u2019s screaming was, on 20 August 2017, a wakeup call to the fact that there were only three episodes left until the final curtain call.<\/p>\n
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To allow you to escape from this live self-therapy session, which probably feels like a hostage situation at this point, I\u2019ll share the realisation that snapped me out of my cortical trip.<\/p>\n
One thing that David Lynch did so well was to question what qualifies as horror. It\u2019s such a multifaceted genre \u2013 which frequently leads me to affirm, with arrogant conviction, that of all the cinematic genres, it is the richest and the most exciting.<\/p>\n
Lynch was not a gatekeeper. He was interested in the subconscious, the darkness that sits underneath the white picket fence, and in exploring the boundaries of horror, he expanded its reach.<\/p>\n
Why this scene scares me\u00a0more than any other in Twin Peaks feels irrelevant in a Lynchian world. The director never liked to discuss the meaning behind his work; he repeatedly said that it was better to leave it up to the audience and not guide them. As an artist, he fought against the tyranny of rationality and allowed for things to just be.<\/p>\n
Dread-infused, comforting, bizarre, joyful \u2013 all usually in the oddest of places.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI don\u2019t think that people accept the fact that life doesn\u2019t make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lynch was right when he said those words, understanding that people desperately scramble to ascribe meaning to everything. Including his own work. Maybe part of the beauty and horror of it all is that a scene can be just a scene. Not all mysteries are meant to be solved, and not knowing is what makes them so special in the first place.<\/p>\n
A character who appears in only one scene can be as intriguing as the other key players, her plight feeling just as important. The same goes for life outside of screens, as everyone we meet has a story we may never get to see. At best, we may only get a disconnected fraction.<\/p>\n
I still don\u2019t know why I’m scared by Ruby\u2019s scene, but nor do I care to know.\u00a0It’s enough to feel how the scene, for me, encompasses the genius of a filmmaker who could create the perfect alchemy of mood, sound and direction to construct something truly unique. Something unnerving that reminds me that obstinately searching for neat answers is madness in an untidy and peripatetic world.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s some fear in letting go. There\u2019s also great power in doing so too.<\/p>\n
‘A Gathering of the Angels’<\/strong><\/a>, the two-day festival celebrating the life and career of David Lynch, takes place at the Genesis Cinema in London, UK, on 27-28 September 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since 16 January, when the sad news broke that David Lynch had died, I\u2019ve rewatched the whole of\u00a0Twin Peaks. Twice. I won\u2019t reveal how many times that makes it in total, for fear they\u2019ll have me committed to the nerdy bin. Which sounds like a magical place, if I’m honest. Twin Peaks has always been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2050621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[380642,52337],"class_list":["post-2050620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-carmen-maria-machado","tag-david-lynch"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/How-my-scariest-scene-in-Twin-Peaks-reminds-me-to.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2050620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2050621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2050620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2050620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2050620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}