There was an incredibly successful post on the board about TP's funniest moments. This may have already been discussed, as well, but I was wondering what some of you found to be the creepiest moments in the show or in FWWM.

In FWWM, the creepiest for me is when BOB comes out from behind Laura's bedroom dresser when she walks into her room, and they both start screaming. And Leland's face highlighted outside the window of Jacques' cabin, watching Laura, before the murder takes place.

In the series, I find the beginning of Cooper's dream sequence in one of the earlier episodes to be cisturbing - right before he dreams about the lodge and the LMFAP and Laura. When we hear deepened voices, we see BOB, and the image of Sarah Palmer coming down the Palmer's staircase with the ceiling fan in the background... that freaks me out.

In FWWM there is a moment when Laura climbs on Harold and shouts "Fire... walk... with... ME!!"

Those yellow teeth... still give me shivers

PS. When I was 11, TP scared the hell out of me. However after we've got shows like "Carnivale" TP's creepiness looks ...hm... a little bit outdated.

I also find that Lynch's scary scenes have the similar style with Japanese horror movies (so-called "kaidan").

Perhaps, this is one of the reasons of his popularity there.

I forgot about the yellow teeth scene! It is really scary.

 I agree that after watching some more modern shows, TP has a different type of creepy ('outdated' is a good word for it) - but I still find it creepy, nonetheless! ;-)

"watch out for my cousin.."

I think the scene where BOB appears to Maddy, gradually coming into vision and then climbing over the couch towards her is the epitome of creepy scenes. It was in the first episode I ever saw of Twin Peaks and stills scares me.

Maddy's death also ranks extremely high.

The scene at the roadhouse(?) with the giant "It is happening again." and the subsequent scene with Leland looking in the mirror. That laugh is creepy. When I first saw this scene I'd heard the giant's warning from DJ Shadow's first album and I couldn't place it so it's eery familiarity on top of the scene's already eery qualities really made it stand out for me.

Creepy

Beauty is momentary in the mind -
The fitful tracing of a portal;
But in the flesh it is immortal.
The body dies; the body's beauty lives.
So evenings die, in their green going,
A wave, interminably flowing.
So gardens die, their meek breath scenting
the cowl of winter, done repenting.
So maidens die, to the auroral
Celebration of a maiden's choral.
Susanna's music touched the bawdy strings
Of those white elders; but, escaping,
Left only Death's ironic scraping.
Now in its immortality, it plays
On the clear viol of her memory,
And makes a constant sacrement of praise.

('Peter Quince at the Clavier' by Wallace Stevens)

Beauty is momentary in the mind -
The fitful tracing of a portal;
But in the flesh it is immortal.
The body dies; the body's beauty lives.
So evenings die, in their green going,
A wave, interminably flowing.
So gardens die, their meek breath scenting
the cowl of winter, done repenting.
So maidens die, to the auroral
Celebration of a maiden's choral.
Susanna's music touched the bawdy strings
Of those white elders; but, escaping,
Left only Death's ironic scraping.
Now in its immortality, it plays
On the clear viol of her memory,
And makes a constant sacrement of praise.

('Peter Quince at the Clavier' by Wallace Stevens)

"watch out for my cousin.."

When Truman says something to the effect of: "If BOB was real and we had him trapped, and now he's escaped, where is he now?"

And they do that camera POV shot of something moving through the forest undergrowth before an owl flies right into the camera.

 2. Waldo being shot and his blood dripping over the donuts. It's the bright red blood on all the pretty donuts looking like strawberry syrup but being blood.

3. Leland/BOB killing Maddy. Not the whole thing just the way she started screaming and he kept hitting her in the face. Just hitting her in the face, I really wanted to reach into the screen and make him stop.

 4. Leland's face - which the audience can see but Cooper can't - when Leland learns Jacques wasn't the killer and Coooper thinks he's crying but he's really laughing: his face is so malevolent! It's creepy that if anyone had related seeing that to anyone in the town they would have told them they were mistaken, or "that couldn't be Leland".

5. Also the bit where Leland grabs Donna while they're dancing and freaks her out. It's like she's freaked out and knows something is wrong and runs away but you know that later on she'd remember it differently and wonder why she freaked out: when her feelings were actually entirely accurate!

6. Maddy's recollection of her dream where she sees the vision of the blood on the carpet. It's just how it was acted but it's like she had that 'someone's walking on my grave sensation' when it was happening and knew it meant someone was going to kill her right there in the living room.

7. Doppelganger Laura shrieking in the Red Room.

8. Ben trying to - in ignorance - bed his own daughter.

9. The cold look of contempt Jerry gives Blackie when he gives her the heroin. I always felt we were seeing the Horne brother's darkside then. And then when she says Ben got her dosed up on heroin to get her into the prostitution racket. Creepy.

10. I can't remember which one but one of the scenes of Ronette going postal. I think it's when someone put poison in her drip. And even when she's walking down the railroad track with the rope still attached to her arms.

11. The ending when doppelganger Cooper smashes his head in the mirror. I always wondered if they called Annie that name because that makes Cooper's asking if Annie's okay just like the line in Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal - or if that was pure happenstance. It made it more disturbing to me though because I always found the subject matter of the song creepy - not so much the song itself. Just the idea of someone breaking and entering and murdering/harming someone in their home. Like BOB did to Maddy - and kind of , Teresa.

I think the scene with BOB's arm at Glastonbury Grove is creepy. And also the music for the final episode. It starts with the scene where Cooper, Harry and Pete are at the police station and the log lady comes. The music is also there when Cooper is walking through the woods towards the lodge entrance. So atmospheric and creepy as if something is lurking and you don't know what it is. I think the track is called "Dark mood woods". It's also on youtube/amazon etc.

In general, the sounds are those that scare me the most about TP. I think Badalamenti and Lynch did a great job there. In fact, it's genius.

Also, most of FWWM is creepy to me.

FWWM....

The dinner scene...where Leland goes on about Laura washing her hands etc. 

In FWWM it is when Mrs. Tremonds creepy little grandson is wearing that mask with the 'spike'(?) coming out of it and he is hopping around in circles. Or when the same kid is whispering to Laura about the "man behind the mask, is looking for the book with the pages cut out".

In the series, I think its pretty much whenever they show the wind rustling through the trees or the stoplight swaying in the wind. Just the entire atmosphere sends chills down my spine! Or when the Little Man is talking to Cooper about the Laura lookalike sitting next to him.

FWWM generally has a different feel to it than the series, it is much more serious and heavy, doesn't really go into humour and thus it is more scary. I agree with someone who pointed out above that the truly scariest moments probably come from the movie, not the series, although of course the series matches it, too, from time to time.

I am not sure about the word creepy and whether I should apply it to scary moments such as BOB in Laura's room or rather to deeply tragic scenes such as the death of Laura (or Maddy for that matter). They give me creeps, too, but more than that, they arouse this sense of tragedy, shock, sadness and general garmonbozia

By the way, which episodes or moments of the series do you find the most similar to FWWM?
I would say the ending of Ep.8... perhaps because it actually shows the same moments that are pictured in the movie. But not only because of that - I can sense the same kind of terror and (let's use the word) creepiness in it. Ronnette's dream (or vision, or memory) of the night Laura was killed is just a blink compared to the full murder scene from FWWM. Still, they terrify me equally and they are probably what I would call the creepiest (better word: most HORRIBLE) moments of Twin Peaks for me.

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