Blue Velvet (1986)
A film by David Lynch
"It's a strange world, isn't it?"
Blue Velvet is a dark, disturbing, bizarre, but always compelling movie, and like all of David Lynch's films, it requires repeated viewings to fully digest it completely. The story focuses on Jeffrey, a young innocent man, in a seemingly pleasant American town, who discovers a severed ear in a field, and from then on decides to investigate further. This leads him to a female singer, and a web of kidnap, murder, sexual perversion and corruption. The performances are all excellent, particularly Dennis Hopper as the deeply deranged Frank Booth.
"Horrifying in ways that genre horror movies never are, Lynch's nightmare has a sort of irregular, homemade quality, as if it had been cooked up with familiar but not entirely wholesome ingredients - a fresh apple pie with a couple of worms poking through the crust." - Terrence Rafferty, Nation
Read the Blue Velvet screenplay
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Premonitions Following an Evil Deed
