The famously weird filmmaker set his 1986 movie in Lumberton, with many modifications, and filmed in Wilmington during its film infancy.

Lynch spent time in Wilmington in the mid 1980s, when the director made one of his best-known and most notorious films.

David Lynch, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker who brought surrealist storytelling to the mainstream via "Twin Peaks" and "Muholland Drive," has died. He was 78.