Good God, David Lynch Can Even Make the Alphabet Terrifying

Long before he was bending our brain with feature film like Eraserhead and Blue Velvet , David Lynch made short films , which , in true Lynchian fashion , often turned the mundane into the unnerving . In 1968 , Lynch released The Alphabet , a plastic film that makes memorise your alphabetic character nightmarish .

The Alphabet was the followup to Lynch ’s scholar film Six Men Getting Sick ( 1967 ) , and wasinspired by a story that Lynch ’s first married woman , Peggy Reavey , say him . Reavey once shared a sleeping accommodation with her six - year - old niece and said that she once walked into the way to hear the girl reciting the alphabet while tossing and rick in her sleep . Lynch ran with the theme of the distressing alphabet , and made this four - minute short , which combines repulsion with Lynch ’s oddball sense of humor .

[ viaNeatorama ]