David Lynch—the visionary director of Twin Peaks and films such as Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet, and Inland Empire —has died. His family announced the filmmaker’s death in

The filmmaker was celebrated for his uniquely dark vision in such movies as "Blue Velvet" and "Mulholland Drive" and the TV series "Twin Peaks."

David Lynch, the surrealist American director behind Mulholland Drive and Twin Peaks, has died aged 78. “There’s a big hole in the world now that he’s no longer with us,” an announcement from his family wrote in a Facebook post.