Telling the tale of ex-con Sailor Ripley (Nicolas Cage) and his one and only love Lula Fortune (Laura Dern) and their descent down the rabbit hole of passion, sex, murder and misery while evading Lula’s deranged mother Marietta (played by Dern’s mother Diane Ladd), WILD AT HEART is pure Lynch, a film that no one else could make. In WILD, the score is composed primarily by Lynch’s chief collaborator Angelo Badalementi and, like all of Badalamenti’s work, his themes and cues here are evocative and haunting.īut the WILD soundtrack is also supported by a wealth of material, both existing and original, that help define the movie’s emotions, its wanton violence, its rowdy passions and its beating, often broken and, yes wild, heart. They will always belong here.įresh off the first season success of his instant cult favorite TV series TWIN PEAKS, Lynch’s feature adaptation of Barry Gifford’s rough and tumble novel contained all of the obsessions we’d seen in previous Lynch works, namely madness, innocence perverted, extreme love (Lynch has said that WILD AT HEART is about trying to hold on to love while in Hell), dangerous and eccentric characters and marvelous music.

Certainly, Lynch’s films are often infinitely more disrupting than any FRIDAY THE 13th sequel or reboot could ever hope to be so, with that, they will always have a place here. And if those images happen to be more than a bit deranged, well, that’s why we love him.Īnd that’s why coverage of his work continues to appear here at SHOCK, a website that focuses on horror. He shoots the images he sees in his head. Like the greatest filmmakers, Lynch never sets out to make a “type” of film.

Sound SHOCK looks at one of the great film soundtrack albums: David Lynch’s WILD AT HEART.ĭavid Lynch‘s 1990 film WILD AT HEART is, like most of Lynch’s work, indefinable in terms of genre.

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