horror movie duos, they split up to continue their search. Soon after,
one of them hears a strange shriek-type noise in the distance, but
ignores it and moves on. He then encounters an ice wall, which holds
a frozen human. Suddenly, the tracker is attacked by a creature we
cant quite see, due to fast camera cuts. The creature and human
roll around in combat, the creature slashing the man until he
paranoid schizophrenic has one--
a them, a they, an it.
And you want to hear about my them, dont you?
l want to know how you got here.
Things are turning to shit out there, arent they?
Lets talk about you.
Your dime.
lm, uh...
l was an insurance investigator, freelance.
Checked outfunny claims, frauds...
the usual kind of thing.
And lately ld been working for a firm here in the city.
And all of t
Lost Highway
The Screenplay
Typed (well, scanned actually) by Mike Dunn
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A 21st Century Noir Horror Film.
A graphic investigation into parallel
identity crises.
A world where time is dangerously out
of control.
A terrifying ride down the lost highway.
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David Lynch
21 June 1995
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AS CREDITS ROLL
EXT. TWO-LANE HIGHWAY - NIGHT
We see a clean moving POV illuminated by head
As the C-130 coasts to a stop, the hatch rotating down on a hot, dusty lifeless airstrip somewhere in Vietnam. Nothing seems to live or move in the midday sun.
TITLES RUN
A DOZEN NEW RECRUITS step off the plane, unloading their duffel bags, looking around like only the new can look around, their hair regulation-clipped, crisp, new green fatigues fitting them like cardboard.
CHRIS TAYLOR is just a
Pitch black. Dead quiet. Dim faint light appears in the distance, approaching, growing larger. As the light nears, we recognize car headlights. Closer and closer until the car is bearing down upon us with great force. . .
2 INT. CAR 2
Two men in the front seat, FISHER and MOORE. Fisher drives. All seems quite normal until we take a closer look, sweat matts hair, dirt stains on white tuxedo shirts