Filmmakers wish they could.make films like this today...great acting/characters and outstanding film noire stuff. It will keep you in the films nightmare wether you like it or not!

amazing. chilling and artful. beautiful

This film was the closest experience I've had that was akin to experiencing a dream while fully awake. Make no mistake, you will be lost while watching this. But it is 100% worth the journey.

I don't know how to rate it. I hated it and loved it at the same.

Lost Highway is chilling to the bone with its surreal, sinister imagery. The cast is incredible, so is the soundtrack. An absolute must-see.

One of the best movies ever if you have someone who explains it to you. One of the worst movies ever if you don’t.

My mind craves a narrative. It tried its best to tie everything together as logically as it could. It got somewhere that it was satisfied with. But that's not the point. When watching a David Lynch movie, one has to let go of such pillars of moviemaking. The fact that I was so confused and tried to tie everything together makes this so beautiful. But it is not a narrative, it is a journey into an experience. Of what it is like to have a mind that is whisped away into its own distortion of reality. Without it realising how erratic the experience is. How wonderfully discordant. How gorgeously unhinged. How gracefully unbalanced. I went on a journey of confusion, but didn't allow myself to ride along with it. I desperately want to see it again, now that I know what its intentions are. That next experience is going to be different than the first. I think this is my favourite thing Lynch has made (that I've seen), besides Twin Peaks.

In this film, David Lynch fully employs his signature symbolism, serving as a prelude to what would be further refined in Mulholland Drive. It features an excellent atmosphere, music, and story. However, I feel it could have been shorter, and perhaps the performances aren’t as remarkable as in some of the director’s other works. But undoubtedly a masterpiece.

A very clever mystery film. You might get lost, but that's okay, you'll definitely enjoy it.

Deeper and less "grand publique" version of Mulholland Drive

Eraserhead (1977) - didn’t understand, didn't expect to, never expect to. Dune (1984) - understood, don’t want to again. Blue Velvet (1986) - understood, wanted to. Lost Highway (1997) - didn’t understand, wanted to. This is a good film very much in the vein of David Lynch’s other films that I have seen. It is strange and full of metaphors that aren’t meant to be understood but sometimes are. This one is better than Dune but worse than Eraserhead and Blue Velvet. It is sadly let down by the story making no sense and not being as psychologically scary as the ones I prefer. Worth watching as the first hour is very creepy and good but after that it slowly falls down. Needs a lot of thought but probably won’t help with any understanding. I should add that the story ultimately isn’t that important as the atmosphere is excellent.

A beautiful yet disturbing exploration of guilt, desire and the human mind. Lynch's most beautifully photographed film and probably his best concept. I had no idea what was going on when I first saw it but it is so well done, that I still could enjoy it. It's not Lynch's best but it is still a masterpiece. This and Mulholland Drive explore the idea of desire and wanting something you can't have in a way no other film I've seen has done.

A fever dream of the human psyche.

The first time I watched it, I started (by accident) in the end of the movie, the last few minutes, and I was wondering "WTF is goin' on?", when the credits started to roll, and I said: "Oh, ok, that's why I didn't understood anything".... Then I watched it from the beginning... and the thing didn't got much better for me. LOL! But now I know a lot more of Lynch's films. Not that I understand it, but at least I know what to expect

Probably an unpopular opinion, but I honestly don't know how people find this movie harder to understand than Mulholland Drive.

As my third Lynch movie (Mulholland Drive and Blue Velvet, previously), I felt that this was the most Lynchian out of all so far. "Id" came to mind while watching -- there are moments which just activate this primal, unconscious part. High intensity scenes that cut to silence, the silence accompanied by this droning sub tone that suffocates the auditory atmosphere. The mixing of the dark backing tracks and the high octane rock music. The weird plot twists and character swaps, how everything feels like a symbol in a way where you wonder what is supposed to be "real" and if we're even in that kind of movie. The whole thing feeling of course like a dream -- that's easy -- but a dream in which its latent content is laid out for you to interpret. This was another movie I decided to watch from Zizek's "A Perverts Guide to Cinema" -- the psychoanalytic lens is useful for making any sense of this movie. Even then, I think I would need another watch to really come up with anything. But despite its inscrutableness it remained captivating, a thoroughly entertaining film all the way through. Not sure if this is cause for the latter or not, but the movie is essentially porn for about 15 minutes of its runtime.

What makes this film so memorable and special are the unique plot elements, set to powerful visuals / soundtrack with an excellent cast. David Lynch's films offer a welcome alternative to the same old same old contemporary three act films of which there are way too many. Lost Highway is his most "Lynchian"nightmare, with its signature menace and mystery.

Essentially two movies in one, the stories are connected in a mysterious fashion. Despite the mysterious plot, Lost Highway is an enjoyable film with two stories that are easy to follow. I would watch this again, if for no other reason to further discern its meaning.

Felt like a dream the whole time, amazing.

At first sight this surreal movie makes no sense at all and clearly calls for an interpretation. I want to offer two interpretations, hoping to turn it into a coherent crime story. Against many film critics that claimed this movie is superficial or just an empty exercise in style, I think it is possible to find substance in it. But before I go on I must warn of SPOILERS. It's impossible to explain this messy plot without including some spoilers. So you're warned not to read on if you haven't seen the movie yet. This comment will assume that you have already seen the movie. So there is go. Interpretation 1. A young auto mechanic called Pete meets Alice, the beautiful mistress of Mr. Eddy, a powerful gangster. Suddenly they fall in love with each other. So they concoct a plot to cheat Mr. Eddy and run away, changing their names and occupations. Then they think they are safe. But Mr. Eddy is hunting them down and finally finds them. He kills Alice (now called Renée) arranging the evidence to implicate Pete (now called Fred). When Fred realizes what has happened, he goes to confront Mr. Eddy, killing him. "Dick Laurent is dead." But he is spotted by the police, chased and finally captured. He's tried, convicted and sentenced to death for murdering his wife (and perhaps for killing Mr. Eddy). In the end nobody wins. Interpretation 2. A young auto mechanic called Pete meets Alice, the beautiful mistress of Mr. Eddy, a powerful gangster. Suddenly they fall in love with each other. So they concoct a plot to cheat Mr. Eddy and run away, changing their names and occupations. Later on, at the insistence of Alice (now called Renée) Pete (now called Fred) goes out and kills Mr. Eddy. "Dick Laurent is dead." He does so preemptively for they can't be safe until Mr. Eddy is dead. But Mr. Eddy has survived. He hunts them down and finally finds them. He exacts his final revenge by killing Renée and framing Fred as the culprit. Fred is tried, convicted and sentenced to death. In the end Mr. Eddy wins. This movie is actually very complex. Each interpretation has its pros and cons. There may be other interpretations, even better than these ones. But that's what makes this movie great. It will always be open to reinterpretations. That's why it deserves a four full stars as a minimum.