David Lynch, the peerless director behind such masterpieces as Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Twin Peaks, and Mulholland Drive, was one of cinema’s all-time greats, a unique visionary whose dark and surreal films were the stuff of both unsettling dreams and sumptuous nightmares.

Reactions to the death of David Lynch, the visionary filmmaker behind “Twin Peaks” and “Mulholland Drive,” whose death at 78 was announced Thursday.

Steven Soderbergh’s “Presence” requires some initial audience disorientation. Mistake? If so, why do we miss David Lynch so much?

"I always operate the camera, but this was next level," the director says. "I’m really in there with the actors."

Steven Spielberg, Nicolas Cage, and Kyle MacLachlan are among the prominent figures paying tribute to David Lynch, whose death was announced Thursday. “I loved David’s films. Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive,

David Lynch's unrelenting 1992 horror film, a prequel to his "Twin Peaks" series, aimed to kill "Twin Peaks," which had been a television sensation just two years earlier. "Fire Walk With Me" famously starts off with a shot of static on a television set,

Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh takes us there in “ Presence ,” a ghost story filmed entirely in a New Jersey home. Unlike most films in the genre, the movie, in theaters Friday (Jan. 24), is told solely from the point of view of the ghost.

The director, who was 78, was known for films and TV shows like 'Blue Velvet,' 'Mulholland Drive' and 'Twin Peaks.'

Lynch broke through in the 1970s with the surreal “Eraserhead” and rarely failed to startle and inspire audiences, peers and critics in the following decades.

The onetime painter broke through in the 1970s with the surreal “Eraserhead” and rarely failed to startle and inspire audiences and critics in the decades after.

The cause of death and location was not immediately available, but Lynch had been public about the effect emphysema had had on his life.

Jim Tauber, a longtime executive and the president of Sidney Kimmel Entertainment for a decade until his retirement in 2015, died Wednesday from complications of multiple myeloma, his family confirmed.