Anthony Mora Now, I can see where a big majority of humans who see this movie will think this movie was pointless, random. I hope this majority shares these thoughts with me, for the better of course. This is everything an actual nightmare (or at least every one in my sick mind) is: creepy and distorted noises, quick flashes of haunting faces, and of course the voices of children skipping on Satan's front yard as they recite the innocent Alphabet song, a song that was one a sweet and timeless song that we all learned in kindergarten, now turned into what sounds like a damning, ritualistic chant that will summon the beasts of the blackness out of of your screen and onto your lap. Yeah, this movie did that amount of damage in the less than 5 minute run-time.Props to David Lynch, who really created a disturbing experience. So simple at how it's done and what it is, but strong in how it's presented. This is the first short film I've seen, and I'm looking forward to more, especially knowing Mr. Lynch has more short films out there.I highly recommend for a quick scare.

gavin6942 David Lynch's earliest work... a short film that somehow involves a girl (Peggy Lynch) and the alphabet, and what seems to be the most screwed-up nightmare anyone could ever possibly imagine. What inspires this sort of thing? I have no idea.The film has been called "avant garde", and I really can't think of a better classification. I'd say something a bit more vulgar, but I won't. One reviewer said this film is what should have been on the tape in "The Ring", and I think that's a fine suggestion. This could scare the pants off of many people.If you've seen Lynch's films, and I recommend pretty much all of them, you know he's capable of some messed-up imagery. I mean, the ear in "Blue Velvet"? Or all of "Lost Highway"? Crazy weird. But after you see this early work, you'll understand that Lynch has been weird for over forty years...

preppy-3 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.

Michael_Cronin 'The Alphabet' has to be one of the most successful attempts to bring the atmosphere of a nightmare to film, even more so than 'Eraserhead', which Lynch once described as a filmed nightmare.The original inspiration for the film came from Lynch's then-wife, Peggy (who appears in the film as the little girl), describing to him how she heard her niece having a dream & repeating the alphabet.This mostly animated short is very abstract & disturbing, with a suitably twisted soundtrack, & although it's based around the alphabet, there's plenty of blood & a bit of sexual imagery. It really does invoke the type of loose, irrational feel of an actual dream, as opposed to the usual filmed 'dreams', which try to define themselves as such with soft focus & slow motion.