DAVID LYNCH released this Home Box Office drama special "Hotel Room" in the US in the early 1990s and it briefly surfaced and vanished on UK VHS a year later.

If you're a diehard "Twin Peaks"/"Mulholland Drive" freak who's incorrigibly wild at heart, you'll be itching to check out this 90-minute trilogy on the thrilling doings in Room 603 of the Railroad Hotel in New York City.

With Monty Montgomery, Lynch is the co-creator and co-executive producer of "Hotel Room." He directed two episodes, both written by Barry Gifford, author of the novel on which Lynch's movie "Wild at Heart" was based. Credit for the third script goes to Jay McInerney, of "Bright Lights, Big City" fame.

Their efforts yielded one tremendously memorable bit of black comedy - the ending of McInerney's "Getting Rid of Robert" which makes this well worth seeking out! The opening visuals and voice-over are wonderfully pretentious ("For a millennium, the space for the hotel room existed, undefined . . .") and for a moment you wonder if Lynch must be onto himself this time...but his self-indulgence soon blossoms into witty self-parody. The first episode, "Tricks," features Glenne Headley playing a hooker and Harry Dean Stanton as her ill-at-ease client. When Stanton at last is ready to partake of Headley's favours, they're interrupted by a gross mystery man (the ubiquitous-Lynch Mob veteran Freddie Jones) who swills bourbon, makes cryptic references to his past dealings with Stanton and eventually has his way with Headley - while Stanton miserably begs him to desist, with a delicious twist ending.

The conclusion of "Getting Rid of Robert" - not to be revealed here - redeems the somewhat sloppy direction by James Signorelli, the strained bitchiness of the dialogue and the lacklustre acting of Deborah Unger, as a woman awaiting an assignation with her arrogant lover, and Chelsea Field and Mariska Hargitay, as the female friends who keep her company until the heel (Griffin Dunne) shows up. When Dunne spells out Unger's flaws, the cruel words might have more impact if her hair weren't blocking our view of his face.

Apparently concerned that "Tricks" might have made too many concessions to conventional drama, Lynch and Gifford temper narrative movement in the concluding episode, "Blackout." A power failure forces a man (Crispin Glover) and his wife (Alicia Witt) to huddle by candlelight in Room 603 as they talk around and around the subject of their small boy's accidental death. The only surprise is that Glover plays the saner one.

The episodes are set in 1969, 1992 and 1936, respectively, but the same ageless bellboy and maid are on duty in all three.

If you can find a VHS of this in a car boot sale somewhere, purchase immediately, insert, devour and enjoy - and someone out there...let's have a DVDLynch asap!!