Fish in the percolator🐟: Twin Peaks Meetup Wellington

"Faster and faster. And for a long time you wouldn't feel anything. And then you'd burst into fire" - Laura Palmer

TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME.
DAVID LYNCH | USA & FRANCE | 1992 | 135mins | R18+| 4K DCP PROVIDED BY JANUS FILMS DISTRIBUTION

Join us for this very special community fundraiser screening of the prequel to the critically acclaimed series, "Twin Peaks".

ABC cancelled the original series after season 2 but a month later, Lynch announced he was "not yet finished with the material" and principal photography for the full length prequel film, began on September 5th 1991 at a caravan site in Snoqualmie Washington. Which became the "Fat Trout Trailer Park" where the story of the last 7 days of Laura Palmer begins.

Since its showing at the 1992 Festival De Cannes, no other Lynch film had polarized audiences to such an extent. Fans that wanted more "Cherry Pie" and "Donuts" from the TV show were served a much darker, unflinching and unforgiving work - in Lynch's own words, a movie about "the loneliness, shame, guilt, confusion and devastation of the victim". Derided by critics and many fans at the time it was a commercial box office flop.

Yet in the years since the initial reaction, a gradual wave of reappraisal and appreciation began. With time it's brilliance came into focus with growing acknowledgment, that the film is a more accurate, complex and powerful account of trauma. Combining the dramatic ferocity of Sherly Lee's tour de force and the beauty of Angelo Badalamenti's score, Lynch reclaimed full ownership of the material creating a harrowing, compassionate and enigmatic hymn to Laura Palmer.

As we approach the films 34 year anniversary and since Lynch's passing in 2025, it is now regarded by critics and fans worldwide, as a revered epilogue, essential predecessor to "The Return", and Lynch's most chilling, terrifying, and yet empathetic and humane cinematic masterpiece.

WHERE: The Roxy Cinema. 5 Park Road. Miramar. Wellington.
Cinema 1 - The big cinema upstairs with the massive screen, red italian leather sofas, and of course those red curtains!

WHEN: Wed 25th Feb 2026. Seating is unreserved so arrive early to check-in at the table upstairs, enter the raffle and get seated.
8:15pm - Doors close and the film starts. (no trailers)

COST: Tickets are $20 per person. (plus booking fee).
Get your tickets here:
https://events.humanitix.com/fwwm

This is a not for profit community screening put on for the pure love of Twin Peaks and the fans. All proceeds go to help pay for the cinema hire and licensing the film with any extras donated to charity. So spread the word and come celebrate "Twin Peaks Day 2026"!

TWIN PEAKS RAFFLE: Check-in at the desk upstairs and get a complimentary raffle ticket, to enter into the draw for 1 of these companion books.

• The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer - By Jennifer Lynch with foreword by Mark Frost & David Lynch (paperback, 2012 edition)
• Fire Walk With Me: Your Laura Disappeared - By Scott Ryan with foreword by Jeff Jensen (paperback, 2022 edition)
• Laura's Ghost: Women Speak about Twin Peaks - By Courtney Stallings with foreword by Sheryl Lee (paperback, 2020 edition)
  Cutoff to enter is 8:10pm and prizes drawn just before the start of the film.