Cross-media picks for David Lynch fans — films, series, games and books in the same vein.
These picks share a preoccupation with the hidden life beneath ordinary surfaces — the dread underneath suburban calm, the unreliable mind that can't be trusted, the body that betrays its owner. You'll find stories where identity fractures, obsession warps perception, and dark ritual bleeds into the everyday. The tone is rarely comfortable: Crash, Dead Ringers, Twin Mirror, Pathologic — each pulls you into a world that looks almost familiar, then quietly reveals it is not.
Film
Lynch (one)
A rare documentary glimpse into David Lynch's many creative interests, filmed over two years.
Film
Crash
A car-crash survivor finds himself drawn into an underground subculture built around shared, transgressive desire.
Film
Vanilla Sky
After a disfiguring accident, a man's charmed life unravels as the boundary between dream and waking reality dissolves.
Film
Coming Soon
Two projectionists discover a deeply disturbing film, and strange events begin to follow them afterward.
Film
Disturbing Behavior
A newcomer realises his small town's model student clique is something far more sinister than it appears.
Film
Dead Ringers
Identical twin gynecologists share patients and lives in a slow, deeply unsettling spiral into codependence and ruin.
Film
Mimic
A couple's last attempt to save their relationship ends in shocking discoveries in a secluded woodland.
Film
Flesh and Bone
A man haunted by his father's violence meets a drifting woman whose past is entangled with his own darkest memories.
Series
Had I Not Seen the Sun
A filmmaker interviewing a serial killer finds the encounter triggering a string of mysterious events from a buried past.
Series
LOVED ONE
A forensic-medicine drama that quietly traces the grief and love that outlast sudden, irreversible loss.
Series
Dies Irae
Nazi officers perform a ritual sacrifice in Berlin's final days, seeking to resurrect something ancient and catastrophic.
Series
Holocaust
A Jewish family's fate under the Nazi regime is traced across years of escalating horror and fractured humanity.
Series
Our Movie
A director with no future and an actress with no tomorrow fall into a love story that cannot wait.
Series
Horizon
A long-running science documentary that unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you have never seen before.
Series
Reverse with Me
Two dreambound lovers travel back in time to mend the past, only to unleash consequences beyond anyone's control.
Series
Terror in Resonance
Tokyo is decimated by a shocking terrorist attack, and the only clue is a bizarre video no one can decipher.
Game
Alfred Hitchcock – Vertigo
A traumatised writer insists his crash survivors existed, tumbling into a mystery where memory and truth unravel.
Game
Serial Cleaners
Four mob cleaners swap contradictory stories on New Year's Eve, each version rewriting what really happened.
Game
Seen
In a dark, unforgiving world, a lone figure struggles again and again to follow the light past closing obstacles.
Game
Twin Mirror
A film-noir psychological thriller built on duality and redemption, where identity itself becomes the central mystery.
Game
Pathologic
A mystical town steeped in lies, betrayal, and intrigues, with a pervasive atmosphere of loss and hopelessness.
Game
SEPTEMBER 1999
A free, VHS-styled first-person found-footage horror game that runs for exactly five minutes and thirty seconds.
Game
Close To The Sun
In 1897, a vast golden ship moored in international waters draws a visitor into something deeply wrong aboard.
Game
Amid Evil
Seven distinct episodes of FPS action, each with a completely different setting and enemies to overcome.
Book
Freewill
A teenager grieving his family believes he is somehow responsible for a wave of suicides in his town.
Book
Consumed
Two journalists entangled in a French philosopher's death find themselves on a surreal journey into global conspiracy.
Book
Take Two at Bedtime
Two novellas of unease, each centred on a new companion discovering something wrong in a seemingly respectable household.
Book
Iron cast
In 1919 Boston, two friends with blood-born gifts work as illegal illusionists in a gangster's club — until the law closes in.
Book
Memory
An actor sustains a head injury and severe memory loss, left to fend for himself in a town where no one knows him.
Book
My friend Dahmer
A young Jeffrey Dahmer struggles to belong during his high school years, before the darkness fully takes hold.
Book
Shadows
An anthology collecting short fiction from across horror's literary tradition, spanning atmosphere and the uncanny.
Book
The Treatment
A husband and wife are found imprisoned in their south London home in this tightly wound crime thriller.
Films like Crash and Vanilla Sky share Lynch's interest in fractured identity and reality coming apart, while Dead Ringers and Disturbing Behavior bring that same unease to bodies and social control.
Yes — Twin Mirror and Pathologic are strong fits, both building oppressive, mystery-soaked worlds where truth is slippery; Alfred Hitchcock – Vertigo pushes further into trauma and unreliable memory.
Consumed — a surreal journalists-meet-conspiracy thriller — and Memory, about an actor who loses himself after a head injury, both carry a Lynchian sense of identity coming completely undone.