Al Strobel Movies

David Lynch's prequel to his cult television series "Twin Peaks" concerns the last seven days in the life of Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee), whose plastic-wrapped corpse, found floating in a river, was the fulcrum for the television series. During the day in the town of Twin Peaks, Laura is a top honors student at the local high school. By night, she is a sex-crazed cokehead, prostituting herself at a sleazy sex club to get money to feed her drug habit. Her race to oblivion is fueled by her father, Leland (Ray Wise), who, as his alter ego Bob (Frank Silva), has been sexually abusing Laura since she was a child. But Laura has an attack of conscience when she realizes that she is leading her best friend Donna (Moira Kelly) down the same rocky road. Leland, however, discovers Laura's nocturnal debauchery when, during a business trip out-of-town, his mistress for a sexual tryst sets him up with his own daughter. In a fit of jealous rage, Leland follows Laura as she travels to a sex party in an abandoned railroad car. Consumed by insatiable longing, Leland transforms himself into Bob, with tragic results for Laura and her friends. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi

An author is haunted by the spirit of her dead husband in this routine supernatural thriller by Susan Shadburne. Morgan Hanna (Dee Wallace Stone) returns to the island where her husband died several years earlier in hops of breaking through her writer's block. She stays with her late husband's mother (Cloris Leachman), joins a local drama group, and starts working on a play. But she begins to see her husband in the mirrors and windows of the house, and is compelled to investigate. At the heart of her turmoil is she really doesn't know if he fell accidentally from the roof of the lighthouse, or if he was pushed. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi