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.

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.

Questlove, Ron Howard and Steven Soderbergh are among those ... the visionary filmmaker behind “Twin Peaks” and “Mulholland Drive,” whose death at 78 was announced Thursday.

Reactions to the death of David Lynch, the visionary filmmaker behind “Twin Peaks” and “Mulholland Drive ... Director Steven Soderbergh, in an interview with The Associated Press.

Steven Soderbergh’s Presence radically subverts the haunted house genre - 4/5 Lucy Liu and Julia Fox star in a film that puts the viewer in the perspective of the ghost haunting a family’s new home

With the audience haunting a sad family through a spirit's POV, Steven Soderbergh's latest experiment is ultimately about the never-ending appeal of voyeurism.

The filmmaker turns a supernatural thriller into a first-person storytelling experiment and a family drama that'd make Eugene O'Neill cringe.

The camera is the ghost in Steven Soderbergh’s chillingly effective, experiential haunted house drama “Presence.”

Steven Soderbergh isn’t just the director and cinematographer of his latest film. He’s also, in a way, its central character.

With the audience haunting a sad family through a spirit's POV, Steven Soderbergh's latest experiment is ultimately about the never-ending appeal of voyeurism.