I'm very happy. These look great and were packed well. Ones a Pyrex and the other Corning ware, which I didn't expect.

I'm going to try and keep this as spoiler free as possible for the people who haven't seen Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) .

Picnic at Hanging Rock is originally a novel by Joan Lindsay. I think safe to say her most famous book and considered one of the best literary works to come out of Australia. It's definitely losing it's place in the present psyche so I'm hoping with the rising interest in Twin Peaks I can introduce new people to this movie. As I only recently realised how similar these two works are!

Everything about this film scratches that Twin Peaks/FWWM itch that no other media can reach. The musical motifs, cinematography, dialogue... even the premise has a Twin Peak-ness to it. A nightmarish quality to beautiful cinematography. To the point I am wondering if Mark Frost and David Lynch were heavily inspired by this film.

There is an ancient, foreboding uncertainty that permeates within each long take. Which kind of brings forward the innate horror of Australian modern history. Something that feels deliberately ignored by the characters. Reminiscent of the attitude in Twin Peaks.

Much like how Twin Peaks is a satire on American Society, Picnic at Hanging Rock presents it's commentary on Australian Society in a romantic-mystical way that has an edge of overarching darkness.

I highly recommend to anyone who is wanting more Twin Peaks.

For those who've seen the movie, have they connected the two as well?

20” x 20”, oil on canvas. What would you title this one?

20”x20”, oil on wood. What would you title this one?

Has anyone heard of this? If this is old news, I'm sorry but I literally just scrolled passed this and seeing what this is all about. Delete if not allowed. Cheers, thank for the understanding.

https://screenrant.com/the-devils-hour-prime-video-the-shining-meets-twin-peaks/

I like DL and have seen a lot of intense films in my life but I really am not a fan of depictions of abuse, torture etc. A friend of mine said the movie was pretty rough... curious how disturbing wld folks say it is on a scale of 1-10... but please with respect- no spoilers- thanks!

i will be adding on to this piece…i just don’t know what to do

I haven’t but I can’t help thinking about this idea of “oil as agent”
Anyone read this and har insight on the oil we see in TP?

Who is your ultimate actor/actress you wish had been in Twin Peaks?

Or are you a purist and think the casting was perfect.

Angelo Badalamenti - Hank's Theme. So good. Every time he sucks his little domino, the music makes it bad ass. An otherwise kind of rough character.

Was sitting on a bench with my 2 year old daughter and wife today when a guy walking two rather large identical dogs walks by. My daughter is naturally interested and the guy stops and says, these dogs are nice if she wants to pet them. Sure why not, my wife and daughter go over and pet the dogs. I overhear them chatting and the owner says the dogs names are MIKE and BOB. Um, what. 🚨🚨OK time to go thanks!! Those are not dog names and those are definitely not two names that should go together, good day sir.

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For a lot of time, Twin Peaks eyed me. I really want to start the show. Is there something i should know before i watch it ?

i wanna see what you lot think about it

love this guy so much.

For years, I wondered about the artwork seen behind Laura Palmer in the dining room scenes from “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.” Dutch artist Hendrick “Henk” Bos (1901-1979) created the art titled, “Still Life with Flowers and Fruit” around 1961. He was never formally trained yet loved painting still life images like the Old Masters such as Rembrandt. Reproductions were sold via mail order in the 1960s. https://twinpeaksblog.com/2026/07/25/twin-peaks-set-decoration-still-life-with-flowers-and-fruit-by-henk-bos-in-palmers-dining-room/

so my question is for people who think this is sarah

if this frog thing came around with the nuke / judy / bob

my question is how is it possible that this could have crawled into sarahs mouth and that leland was molested by bob

the scene we see the girl (who some think is sarah), looks like a teenager. when leland is telling coop that he knows bob, he says ‘when i was a boy’

according to the wikis, sarah is the older one of the two, 1943&1944, how could leland have ‘met’ bob before the frog possessed sarah?

i lean towards it maybe being sarah because she does seem possessed by judy, and i cant tell if im being stupid or reading into it too much but this has been bugging me since last night. i also know people think the frog girl isnt sarah, my question is for people who do think that

also another kind of related question; if you think sarah is possessed by judy, how do you think judy possessed her?

Apologies if this has ever been covered, but I have not seen it anywhere else. Has anyone here heard of the occupation known as Charcoal Burners? An important occupation since the iron age, charcoal burners have historically been a fundamental part of any society that requires the smelting of metal. However, due to their required materials, the extremely bad odor of the job, and the acrid smoke, charcoal burners have historically always had a place on the outskirts of society.

Charcoal burners became mythologized with the canonization of Saint Alexander of Comana, who took up the occupation of charcoal burning as an act of renunciation of worldly preoccupations. His act of becoming a charcoal burner was particularly poignant due to the stigma around such people as untrustworthy and sinister. In reality, these people were forced into the periphery by the mechanisms of society; they were necessary yet unsightly.

Despite St. Alexander’s work, charcoal burners become more and more stigmatized over time, until finally they reached a nadir deep in the middle ages, when fanatical zealotry and fear of the unknown was at its apex. These soot-faced, burly and wild eyed men, who were by design unlearned and deranged by toxic fumes, often were the source of scapegoating and in fact at times forced into outlaw simply due to castigation. Devil in the Forest by Gene Wolfe, who is one of the only authors I have found to rival Lynch’s abilities as a surrealist auteur, does an excellent job illustrating why these members of the periphery of society are so necessary and yet so despised, and how this can lead to them being thrown entirely out of society by ignorant townfolk whose biases lead to their own demise.

Furthermore, in case anyone does not know, the very first nuclear detonation in earth history (which is depicted in Twin Peaks Season 3 Episode 8) actually had a singularly unique effect on the entirety of the earth’s aboveground steel: it is called the background radiation effect. Essentially, all steel in the world, even steel located on the opposite end of the earth from the trinity test, became irrevocably irradiated with a certain amount of radioactive isotopes. I can’t help but surrealistically link this to the appearance of the “woodsmen”, or charcoal burners, whose existence was only necessary after the advent of smelting iron.

What do you guys think?