Inland Empire/YMMV
- Crazy Awesome: The "Do The Locomotion" scene, as well as the ending.
- Crowning Moment of Funny: Kingsly yelling at Bucky, the lighting technician.
- The beginning of the credits is filled with strangely hilarious callbacks and visual puns.
- Arguably, the scene where the Phantom menaces Nikki with a lightbulb in his mouth. Yeah... what.
- Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: The ending scenes before the credits.
- Crowning Music of Awesome: "Ghost of Love".
- "Polish Poem". Bordering on Tear Jerker.
- "Black Tambourine" by Beck
- "Secrets Of The Life Tree" by Kroke
- "Polish Night Music No. 1" by David Lynch and Marek Zebrowski, mixed with High Octane Nightmare Fuel. Used for THAT scene.
- And bringing it on home, Nina Simone's "Sinnerman".
- High Octane Nightmare Fuel: The whole movie. David Lynch seems to specialize and making things creepy that shouldn't be creepy, and this movie could be called Nightmare Face: The Movie. The whole thing is packed to the brim with Jump Scares, Hell Is That Noise, and Surreal Horror. And while the whole film is full of Nightmare Faces, the one in the climax (if you've seen it, you know the one) is an example. As mentioned under Dream Sequence, the film is quite possibly the closest a film will ever come to emulating a dream, and much of the horror comes from the realistic and striking resemblance of a terrifying dream that you can't escape. It's considered by some to be one of the most terrifying films ever made.
- Love It or Hate It: Any film by David Lynch is subject to this, but Inland Empire is divisive even amongst Lynch fans. It's either his Magnum Opus or Shark-Jumper.
- True Art Is Incomprehensible: Oh so very incomprehensible
- Uncanny Valley: The remarkable thing is that David Lynch managed to create this effect just by manipulating light and sound (with...at least one exception...). Subtle things like sound and lighting manipulations make everything feel so wrong. At one point, just the location of the lighting make Nikki's eyes appear to just be black holes. Nothing else scary happens in the scene.