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* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Oh so very incomprehensible.
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* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments:
** Kingsley yelling at Bucky, the lighting technician -- played by [[Creator/DavidLynch the man himself]].
** The beginning of the credits is filled with strangely hilarious {{callback}}s and {{visual pun}}s.
** Arguably, the scene where the Phantom menaces Nikki with a lightbulb in his mouth. [[FlatWhat Yeah... what.]]
** The slow, awful buildup of tension throughout the movie makes the occasional cheeky reference to ''Film/SunsetBoulevard'' that much more effective.
** In RealLife, David Lynch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut6zdE8qWj0 sat on Hollywood Blvd. with a cow]] in an attempt to get an Oscar nom for Laura Dern's performance. He also has a sign that said "Without cheese there wouldn't be an ''Inland Empire''".
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments:
** The ending scenes before the credits in which Nikki embraces the Lost Girl.
** The Lost Girl, now freed from her torment, happily reuniting with her lover and their child.
** The creepy lady from the beginning shows up at the end, smiling at Nikki as though to say "You did it!" for freeing The Lost Girl. Nikki smiles back.
** Kingsley yelling at Bucky, the lighting technician -- played by [[Creator/DavidLynch the man himself]].
** The beginning of the credits is filled with strangely hilarious {{callback}}s and {{visual pun}}s.
** Arguably, the scene where the Phantom menaces Nikki with a lightbulb in his mouth. [[FlatWhat Yeah... what.]]
** The slow, awful buildup of tension throughout the movie makes the occasional cheeky reference to ''Film/SunsetBoulevard'' that much more effective.
** In RealLife, David Lynch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut6zdE8qWj0 sat on Hollywood Blvd. with a cow]] in an attempt to get an Oscar nom for Laura Dern's performance. He also has a sign that said "Without cheese there wouldn't be an ''Inland Empire''".
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments:
** The ending scenes before the credits in which Nikki embraces the Lost Girl.
** The Lost Girl, now freed from her torment, happily reuniting with her lover and their child.
** The creepy lady from the beginning shows up at the end, smiling at Nikki as though to say "You did it!" for freeing The Lost Girl. Nikki smiles back.
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Uncanny Valley is IUEO now and the subjective version has been split; cleaning up misuse and ZCE in the process
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* UncannyValley: The remarkable thing is that Creator/DavidLynch managed to create this effect just by manipulating light and sound (with...[[NightmareFace at least one exception]]...). Subtle things like sound and lighting manipulations make everything feel so ''wrong''. At one point, just the location of the lighting make Nikki's eyes appear to just be black holes. [[NothingIsScarier Nothing else scary happens in the scene.]]
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* AwardSnub: Creator/LauraDern didn't receive any recognition from The Academy for her starring role in this film which brought about a good backlash on the internet from viewers that believe she at least deserved a "Best Actress" nomination. Critics agreed, calling it possibly the best performance in her career.
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* AwardSnub: Creator/LauraDern didn't receive any recognition from The Academy the UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s for her starring role in this film which brought about a good backlash on the internet from viewers that believe she at least deserved a "Best Actress" nomination. Critics agreed, calling it possibly the best performance in her career.
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* HomegrownHero: The curse and most of the people involved in it (most importantly the Phantom and the Lost Girl) have their origins in Poland, but it's American actress Nikki Grace who eventually breaks it.
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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQiPQgMTkEI "Polish Poem"]]. Bordering on TearJerker.
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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQiPQgMTkEI "Polish Poem"]]. Bordering on TearJerker.Poem"]], which plays when Nikki defeats the Phantom and frees the Lost Girl. A beautiful song with a mystical and peaceful quality, it's almost a relief to hear it, as it signals that the Phantom's long reign of terror is finally over, and it keeps playing over the Lost Girl reuniting with her loved ones.
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** "Polish Night Music No. 1" by Creator/DavidLynch and Marek Zebrowski, mixed with NightmareFuel. Used for [[NightmareFace THAT]] scene.
** And, bringing it on home, Nina Simone's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6s2Ny17-Yg "Sinnerman"]].
** And, bringing it on home, Nina Simone's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6s2Ny17-Yg "Sinnerman"]].
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** "Polish Night Music No. 1" by Creator/DavidLynch and Marek Zebrowski, mixed Zebrowski. This is the music for Nikki's final showdown with NightmareFuel. Used the Phantom (which means it's used for [[NightmareFace THAT]] scene.
scene), and it's appropriately ominous, with quite a few {{Scare Chord}}s.
**And, bringing it on home, Nina Simone's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6s2Ny17-Yg "Sinnerman"]]."Sinnerman"]], used for the ending credits sequence where Nikki presides over a party at her house to celebrate the breaking of the curse; the song helps bring home the feeling of victory over a dark force.
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* BizarroEpisode: '''More so than ''any'' [[SerialEscalation David Lynch film period]]'''.
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** The creepy lady from the beginning shows up at the end, smiling at Nikki as though to say "You did it!" for freeing The Lost Girl. Nikki smiles back.
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* TheWoobie: The poor Lost Girl. She was married to an abusive man who turned into The Phantom when she dared to look for affection in a better man. The Phantom obtained supernatural powers, killed her lover and trapped her in a room where she would be forced to relive those horrible events for all eternity. Thankfully, Nikki rescues her.
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** Kingsly yelling at Bucky, the lighting technician -- played by [[Creator/DavidLynch the man himself]].
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** Kingsly Kingsley yelling at Bucky, the lighting technician -- played by [[Creator/DavidLynch the man himself]].
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* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: The ending scenes before the credits in which Nikki embraces the Lost Girl.
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* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments:
** The ending scenes before the credits in which Nikki embraces the LostGirl.Girl.
** The Lost Girl, now freed from her torment, happily reuniting with her lover and their child.
** The ending scenes before the credits in which Nikki embraces the Lost
** The Lost Girl, now freed from her torment, happily reuniting with her lover and their child.
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* BigLippedAligatorMoment: The "Loco-motion" scene, wherein suddenly about a dozen girls are dancing to a cheerful song. It's very at odds with the film's foreboding mood and it's never mentioned again. Nikki's bemused reaction is priceless, though.
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* BigLippedAligatorMoment: BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The "Loco-motion" scene, wherein suddenly about a dozen girls are dancing to a cheerful song. It's very at odds with the film's foreboding mood and it's never mentioned again. Nikki's bemused reaction is priceless, though.
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Mind Screwdriver is not YMMV.
* BigLippedAligatorMoment: The "Loco-motion" scene, wherein suddenly about a dozen girls are dancing to a cheerful song. It's very at odds with the film's foreboding mood and it's never mentioned again. Nikki's bemused reaction is priceless, though.
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* MindScrewdriver: Sort of (it's in the movie, not in bonus material). in a possible pun version: a lady in the movie thinks she has been hypnotized to kill someone, she is asked what she is going to use as a weapon, she replies that she is going to use a screwdriver. If you can just figure out what the screwdriver might represent (hint: not a literal screwdriver) along with who this killer is, and their relation to the target of the murder, the mind screw of at least some of the film may be explained.
* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Oh so very incomprehensible .
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* CrazyAwesome: The "Do The Locomotion" scene, as well as the ending.
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* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: The ending scenes before the credits.
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* NightmareFuel: The whole movie. Creator/DavidLynch seems to specialize and making things creepy that shouldn't be creepy, and this movie could be called NightmareFace: TheMovie. The whole thing is packed to the brim with {{Jump Scare}}s and SurrealHorror. And while the whole film is full of {{Nightmare Face}}s, the one in the climax (if you've seen it, you know the one) is an example. As mentioned under DreamSequence, the film is quite possibly the closest a film will ever come to emulating a dream, and much of the horror comes from the realistic and striking resemblance of a terrifying dream that you can't escape. It's considered by some to be one of the most terrifying films ever made.
