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. — “He’s one of those filmmakers who was influential but impossible to imitate.

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.

"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,

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.

Director Steven Soderbergh, in an interview with The Associated Press. — ''I am astounded and heartbroken I can't express with any words the profound loss of the great David Lynch my friend.''

Reactions to the death of David Lynch, the visionary filmmaker ... they were clearly highly organized in his mind.” — Director Steven Soderbergh, in an interview with The Associated Press.

These 10 movies are remaking titles that already exist, and each of them is at least as good as their predecessor.

Soderbergh's unique, creepy and moving ghost story will give you goosebumps - 4/5 The acclaimed director delivers a new spin on the haunted house film which makes for an eerily effective mystery

Mayfair Witches Recap: Fall of the House of Mayfair Rowan and the gang get back on track with an episode full of twists, stakes, emotional beats, and everything that makes for great television.

A 10th anniversary screening of 'Selma,' Richard Linklater's 'Waking Life,' the Australian 'Muriel's Wedding' in 35mm and remembering David Lynch.