Nightmare Fuel / Lost Highway

"We've met before, haven't we?"

• Every scene with the Mystery Man.
  • "I'm at your house... "
  • When he laughs in real life and at the other end of the phone simultaneously.
  • Pete gets a phone call from Mr. Eddy, who then hands it off to "a friend of mine."
    Mystery Man: In the East, the Far East, when a person is sentenced to death, they're sent to a place where they can't escape, never knowing when an executioner may step up behind them, and fire a bullet into the back of their head.
• Especially eerie is the real-life parallels of Robert Blake playing a creepy criminal in a movie about a man murdering his wife. It gets worse if one considers that Lynch was inspired by the O.J. Simpson murder case while directing the movie.
• The scene where Fred finds the Mystery Man just....standing there. Nothing creepy, just standing there and smiling.
  • There's something so inexplicably creepy about the way he randomly takes out a video camera and starts filming Fred while still talking to him.
    Mystery Man: And your name.......WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR NAME?
  • After seeing him so eerily calm and utterly unflappable for the entire rest of the movie, watching the Mystery Man become inexplicably enraged and shout Fred for asking a simple question is....disturbing.
• The video tapes at the beginning are incredibly unsettling as they are the work of a stalker breaking into someone's home.
• Fred's dream about Renee, where she "isn't Renee, but looks like her"
• When the lights flash after Fred returns from the party with the Mystery Man.
• Fred's hallucinations in prison.
• Mr Eddy: Her name is Alice. I swear I love that girl to death. If I ever found out someone was making out with her. I'd take this - pulls out a pistol - and shove it so far up his ass it would come out his mouth. Then you know what I'd do? I'd blow his fuckin' brains out.
• Fred's wanderings around his house at night definitely qualify. No cheap Jump Scares - Nothing Is Scarier at its best indeed.

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