History Film / TwinPeaksFireWalkWithMe

* DarkerAndEdgier: Although it occupies the same disturbing universe as the series, the film is noticeably more bleak and explicitly violent, and the F-bomb is dropped freely and frequently. The focus is firmly on Laura, not the kooky surrounding cast of the series, the trademark eccentric humour is largely absent, and a portion of the plot takes place in what is essentially Twin Peaks' EvilCounterpart.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Although it occupies the same disturbing universe as the series, the film is noticeably more bleak and explicitly violent. The focus is firmly on Laura, not the kooky surrounding cast of the series, the trademark eccentric humour is largely absent, and a portion of the plot takes place in what is essentially Twin Peaks' EvilCounterpart.

''Fire Walk with Me'' is the 1992 film prequel ([[TimeyWimeyBall and sequel]]) to ''Series/TwinPeaks'', and follows the events leading up to the death of Laura Palmer in the pilot episode. It is directed by the co-creator of the series, Creator/DavidLynch. Production for the film started just after the series ended. The movie featured several cameos by characters from the series (including Kyle [=MacLachlan=] as Agent Cooper) and chronicled the final week leading up to Laura's murder and discovery in the series proper.

Released after the series' 1991 conclusion, the film follows two separate plot threads. The first, which takes place a year before the events of the pilot, follows a pair of FBI agents (Chris Isaak and Creator/KieferSutherland) who are investigating the death of a waitress in the town of Deer Meadow. The second begins after one of the agents disappears while following up on a clue, the film cuts to a year later, where high school student Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) is balancing her perception as Twin Peaks' resident "good girl", a pair of boyfriends, hidden secrets and the unsettling behavior of her father, Leland Palmer (Ray Wise)...

* DarkerAndEdgier: Although it occupies the same disturbing universe as the series, the film is noticeably more bleak and explicitly violent. The focus is firmly on Laura, not the kooky surrounding cast of the series, and the trademark eccentric humour is largely absent.

* EvilCounterpart: Deer Meadow is essentially the MirrorUniverse version of Twin Peaks. Where Twin Peaks is a QuirkyTown that represents everything charming and friendly about small [[CloseKnitCommunity Close-Knit Communities]] in America, Deer Meadow plays drastically plays up the LovecraftCountry elements and the darker sides of small-town America, being a dysfunctional TownWithADarkSecret inhabited by small-minded and petty {{Jerkass}}es, who are overtly hostile towards outsiders.

The movie had a number of deleted scenes left on the cutting room floor, which were eventually stitched together years later as a standalone movie ''The Missing Pieces'', included as part of the Blu-Ray collection of the original series and released on a standalone disc alongside ''Fire Walk With Me'' under Creator/TheCriterionCollection after the {{revival}}, ''The Return'', finished airing. Lynch has described both ''Fire Walk With Me'' and ''The Missing Pieces'' as being helpful to explain the story of ''The Return'', [[MindScrew at least insofar as one can actually explain the story of a David Lynch work]].

* AbusiveParents: If you haven't watched the series, it should come as a shock when [[spoiler:Leland is possessed by Bob, who rapes Laura. Laura's mother is powerless to stop the abuse]].

* BizarroWorld: Deer Meadows is Bizarro Series/TwinPeaks. The coffee is terrible, the waitresses are surly, the sherrif's a walking balding dickbag and his secretary and deputy are a pair of snarky assholes. Nobody's interested in solving the Teresa Banks case, and there seems to be no industry to speak of. The only thing they seem to have in common is their [[UsefulNotes/TheOtherRainforest location]] and [[TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch refusal to release bodies to the FBI.]]

** Laura's mother Sarah Palmer clearly knows something's going on (which makes her scream of "What's happening in this house?" at the start of the series even HarsherInHindsight) but refuses to let herself put it together.

''Fire Walk with Me'' is the 1992 film prequel to ''Series/TwinPeaks'', and follows the events leading up to the death of Laura Palmer in the pilot episode. It is directed by the co-creator of the series, Creator/DavidLynch. Production for the film started just after the series ended. The movie featured several cameos by characters from the series (including Kyle [=MacLachlan=] as Agent Cooper) and chronicled the final week leading up to Laura's murder and discovery in the series proper.

The movie had a number of deleted scenes left on the cutting room floor, which were eventually stitched together years later as a standalone movie ''The Missing Pieces'', included as part of the Blu-Ray collection of the original series and released on a standalone disc alongside ''Fire Walk With Me'' under the Creator/CriterionCollection after the {{revival}}, ''The Return'', finishes airing. Lynch has described both ''Fire Walk With Me'' and ''The Missing Pieces'' as being helpful to explain the story of ''The Return'', [[MindScrew at least insofar as one can actually explain the story of a David Lynch work]].

The movie had a number of deleted scenes left on the cutting room floor, which were eventually stitched together years later as a standalone movie ''The Missing Pieces'', included as part of the Blu-Ray collection of the original series and set to receive a standalone release alongside ''Fire Walk With Me'' after the {{revival}}, ''The Return'', finishes airing. Lynch has described both ''Fire Walk With Me'' and ''The Missing Pieces'' as being helpful to explain the story of ''The Return'', [[MindScrew at least insofar as one can actually explain the story of a David Lynch work]].

* BizarroWorld: Deer Meadows is Bizarro Series/TwinPeaks. The coffee is terrible, the waitresses are surly, the sherrif's a walking balding dickbag and his secretary and deputy are a pair of snarky assholes. Nobody's interested in solving the Teresa Banks case, and there seems to be no industry to speak of. The only thing they seem to have in common is their [[TheOtherRainforest location]] and [[TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch refusal to release bodies to the FBI.]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: Although it occupies the same disturbing universe as the series, the film is noticeably more bleak. The focus is firmly on Laura, not the kooky surrounding cast of the series, and the trademark eccentric humour is absent.

Released after the series' 1991 conclusion, the film follows two separate plot threads. The first, which takes place a year before the events of the pilot, follows a pair of FBI agents (Chris Isaak and Creator/KieferSutherland) who are investigating the death of a waitress in the town of Deer Meadow. The second begins after one of the agents disappears while following up on a clue, the film cuts to a year later, where high school student Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) is balancing her perception as Twin Peaks' resident "good girl", a pair of boyfriends, hidden secrets and her schizophrenic father Leland (Ray Wise)...

* Futureshadowing: [[spoiler: Who do you think that is there?]]

* JurisdictionFriction: Between FBI agent Chet Desmond and the Deer Meadows sheriff's office.

* AwfulTruth: Laura finding out that [[spoiler:her father ripped pages from her diary]] causes her to have a HeroicBSOD.

''Fire Walk with Me'' is the 1992 film prequel to ''Series/TwinPeaks'', and follows the events leading up to the death of Laura Palmer in the pilot episode. It is directed by the co-creator of the series, Creator/DavidLynch.

Released after the series' 1991 conclusion, the film follows two separate plot threads. The first, which takes place a year before the events of the pilot, follows a pair of FBI agents (Chris Isaak and Creator/KieferSutherland) who are investigating the death of a waitress in the town of Deer Meadow.

After one of the agents disappears while following up on a clue, the film cuts to a year later, where high school student Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) is balancing her perception as Twin Peaks' resident "good girl", a pair of boyfriends, hidden secrets and her schizophrenic father Leland (Ray Wise)...

Production for the film started just after the series ended. The movie featured several cameos by characters from the series (including Kyle [=MacLachlan=] as Agent Cooper) and chronicled the final week leading up to Laura's murder and discovery in the series proper.

* AbusiveParents: If you haven't watched the series, [[spoiler:Leland is possessed by Bob, who rapes Laura. Laura's mother is powerless to stop the abuse.]]

* BittersweetEnding[=/=]GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:In the last scene of the movie, Laura appears reunited with Agent Cooper and her guardian angel in the Black Lodge.]]

** Laura's mother Sarah Palmer clearly knows something's going on(which makes her scream of "What's happening in this house?" at the start of the series even HarsherInHindsight) but refuses to let herself put it together.

* BittersweetEnding[=/=]GainaxEnding:[[spoiler: In the last scene of the movie, Laura appears reunited with Agent Cooper and her guardian angel in the Black Lodge]].

** The fate of Special Agent Phillip Jeffries and whatever went down in Buenos Ares.

* BitterSweetEnding[=/=]GainaxEnding:[[spoiler: In the last scene of the movie, Laura appears reunited with Agent Cooper and her guardian angel in the Black Lodge]].

* ScriptWank: In an unusual moment for David Lynch, who is otherwise a master of ShrugOfGod, he explicitly spell out -- via subtitles -- that the garmonbozia the Black Lodge denizens feed on represents pain and sorrow.

* ScriptWank: In an unusual moment for David Lynch, who is otherwise a master of ShrugOfGod, he explicitly spell out -- via subtitles -- that garmonbozia represents pain and sorrow.