The Alphabet

1969

Animation / Horror

7
IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 9143 9.1K

nightmare sleep painting black and white alphabet

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Plot summary

A woman's dark and absurdist nightmare vision comprising a continuous recitation of the alphabet and bizarre living representations of each letter.

Director

David Lynch Photo
David Lynch

Top cast

Peggy Lynch Photo
Peggy Lynch as Girl
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
34.43 MB
950*720
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
12 hr 3 min
Seeds 7
63.99 MB
1424*1080
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
12 hr 3 min
Seeds 17

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Ben_Cheshire 8 / 10

Disturbing animated short shows Lynch had it from the beginning.

This was the first time David Lynch shot live-action footage. It isn't really a narrative film, like The Grandmother, but its more than a filmed moving painting like Six Men Getting Sick. It is mainly animation, truth be told, but it combines live action with it. This is what a child's nightmare looks like inside David Lynch's head - and let me tell you, its quite disturbing, on a par with Grandmother and Eraserhead.Some of its images, like the girl bleeding from the mouth and reciting the alphabet - i can't get out of my head. I don't know if that's a good thing... Lynch is a very strange man, indeed. And what we get in his films isn't half the story, as members of his website will tell you. There are images there that you wouldn't even know to be wary of, to not think about - images you don't even know to protect yourself from. But as Elephant Man showed us, he is also a master director, who can control himself and a major production to perfection. As Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks and Mulholland Dr showed us, Lynch's world can also be lots of fun. He's one of my favourite filmmakers because he gives me both fun AND haunting in the same frame - a feat not many can do.
Reviewed by preppy-3 8 / 10

Downright horrifying

VERY weird short by David Lynch. It's in black and white and shows a girl who looks like she's going completely mad while the letters of the alphabet go flying around her. She also sings that alphabet song.I should have expected something weird from Lynch but this is even stranger than I thought it could be. In 4 short minutes he gives you a morbid and disturbing little story about the alphabet and terror. It doesn't make a bit of sense but the imagery is so strange and the sound so odd that you're pulled right in. Basically a short little horror film. You can see where "Eraserhead" came from. Worth seeing but only for those who don't scare easily. An 8.
Reviewed by dbborroughs 7 / 10

Frightening imagery

Based on an actual event, Lynch's niece had a nightmare where she recited the alphabet in her sleep, this film is basically the same thing, with a young woman reciting the alphabet in her sleep while we see nightmarish imagery.Its an interesting piece with truly frightening images. Unfortunately the animation isn't all that spectacular, consisting of animated drawings. Its a good piece that mostly works and shows the seeds of the later Eraserhead.If you come across one of the short film videos of Lynch's early work this film, and one or two others, makes it worth renting.
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