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Welcome to another episode of you must remember this the podcast dedicated to exploring the secret and or forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century.

On your host Karina Longworth and this is another installment of our ongoing series Erotic 90s.

Give me a lot of pleasure. So we could show the facts all over the place.

I have seen one or two things in my life but never, never anything like this.

We last talked about David Lynch in the first episode of Erotic 90s when his film Wild at Heart was part of the conversation around the need to make changes to the rating system.

Lynch's career had been at its commercial peak when Wild at Heart won the top prize at Cannes in 1990.

At that edition of the festival according to Newsweek, Twin Peaks fans gathered at the American pavilion to watch VHS tapes of the TV show rather than attend premieres of international soon-to-be classic films.

But swiftly there was a backlash. Wild at Heart underperformed at the US box office, Lynch's next feature was Fire Walk With Me, a prequel to Twin Peaks that should have been a sure thing for that show's fan base.

But because the film was much more challenging in terms of form and content than anything Lynch had been allowed to do on ABC, it was reviewed negatively and perceived as a failure.

Five years passed before Lynch would release another feature, the longest gap between major projects of his career to that point.

That feature would be Lost Highway, a nightmare journey through the darkest depths of masculinity and the sexual underbelly of Los Angeles.

Partially inspired by O.J. Simpson and the 1994 murder of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and sort of anticipating the trials of Lost Highway co-star Robert Blake.

Who, like Simpson, would be tried in both criminal and civil court for the murder of his wife?

But Lost Highway also shares some themes with a 1993 Lynch release, Boxing Helena, written and directed by David's eldest child, Jennifer Lynch.

Boxing Helena debuted at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival and then opened theatrically later that year.

But the actual movie was swallowed by years of press coverage involving two actresses who had considered starring in the film.

In fact, the legal battles over Boxing Helena stretched almost all the way until the release of Lost Highway in early 1997.

Starring the late Julian Sands and Twin Peaks actress Sheryl and Fen, it is a movie about a man who is driven wild by a sexually liberated woman who doesn't want him, and his compulsion to take away her power by literally hobbling her at her knees.

Though Lost Highway is a much more narratively complex film, it is also ultimately about how men are driven to capture and tame the highly sexual women who, quote unquote, drive them crazy, allowing the men to blame their violence on female sexuality and uncontrollability.

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