Product Description

Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rosselini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern Set in the picture-postcard small town environs of Lumberton, Kyle MacLachlan plays the clean cut Jeffrey Beaumont, who whilst returning form a visit to his hospitalised father, makes the shocking discovery of a severed human ear. After reporting his discovery to a local police detective, Jeffery decides to pursue his own line of enquiry, aided by the detective's daughter, Sandy Laura Dern. This sets Jeffrey on a voyage of discovery that takes him to the very heart of Lumberton's seedy and sinister underworld where he encounters a collection of misfits who's various chronic compulsions to engulf him in their twisted and nightmarish world.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3687 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-10-04
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 115 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
David Lynch peeks behind the picket fences of small-town America to reveal a corrupt shadow world of malevolence, sadism and madness. From the opening shots Lynch turns the Technicolor picture postcard images of middle-class homes and tree-lined lanes into a dreamy vision on the edge of nightmare. After his father collapses in a preternaturally eerie sequence, college boy Kyle MacLachlan returns home and stumbles across a severed human ear in a vacant lot. With the help of sweetly innocent high school girl (Laura Dern), he turns junior detective and uncovers a frightening yet darkly compelling world of voyeurism and sex. Drawn deeper into the brutal world of drug dealer and blackmailer Frank, played with raving mania by an obscenity-shouting Dennis Hopper in a career-reviving performance, he loses his innocence and his moral bearings when confronted with pure, unexplainable evil. Isabella Rossellini is terrifyingly desperate as Hopper's sexual slave who becomes MacLachlan's illicit lover, and Dean Stockwell purrs through his role as Hopper's oh-so-suave buddy. Lynch strips his surreally mundane sets to a ghostly austerity, which composer Angelo Badalamenti encourages with the smooth, spooky strains of a lush score. Blue Velvet is a disturbing film that delves into the darkest reaches of psycho-sexual brutality and simply isn't for everyone. But for a viewer who wants to see the cinematic world rocked off its foundations, David Lynch delivers a nightmarish masterpiece. --Sean Axmaker

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Synopsis
A deeply shocking and insidiously funny film, David Lynch's offbeat vision uncovers the nasty underside of small-town America. When a young man finds a human ear in a field, he embarks on an investigation into the dark world of a dangerous psychopath, which leads him to a beautiful nightclub singer. Truly an auteur film, if there is such a thing, BLUE VELVET is a bizarre, disturbing work that stands as one of the best films of the 1980s.

Customer Reviews

'She Wore Blue Velvet'
What is there to say about the best film of the 1980's. This film is a modern day fairy tale, a surreal crime thriller and certainly one of Lynch's best and most rated films.

I just want to leave a note about the DVD, similar to what others have said, avoid the Prism Production of this, bad video, bad sound and ugly looking. Instead stretch yourself a few more £'s with the recently restored Sanctuary copy with bonus disk...

Prepare yourself for the voyeuristic journey, in this strange world.

Blue Velvet - 2-disc widescreen version
Looking at the other reviews here, there seems to be a lot of people unhappy with the Blue Velvet DVD. I must point out that I own the two disc widescreen version of Blue Velvet released by Sanctuary Visual Entertainment, and I can assure you there is absolutely nothing wrong with the quality of the picture or the sound. Further more it is presented in 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen. The DVD is Region 0, which means it will work on any DVD player.

On the second disc there is a 30-minute documentary called Strange Desires, which features interviews with David Lynch, Dennis Hopper and others associated with the film. There is also a 12-minute featurette called Moving Pictures with J.G Ballard.

I think the technical problems mentioned in other customer reviews are related to the DVD released by Prism Leisure. My advice would be to avoid that one, and purchase the one by Sanctuary.

Hope this helps.

Grotesque...
Why is there so much praise for this horrifically bad film?!?


My friend Lewis leant me this last night and I really am racking my brain as to what I did to suggest to him I might like such an insipid, juvenile and offensive film!

Here, I'll outline the plot for you so you can save yourself the trouble of finding out by watching it:

James Lorinz plays Jeffery Beaumont, a student kicked out of medical college for strange experiments, who moves back into his parents because of a family emergency. He falls into a relationship with a local girl (Patty Mullen) who suffers a great misfortune. Unable to handle the loss, Jeffery uses parts of local prostitutes (that he MURDERS with a modified version of crack cocaine that makes users EXPLODE called "Super crack") to rebuld her body and bring her back to life. However, the pimp who looks after these prostitutes is Frank Booth (played by Joseph Gonzalez with more than a passing resemblance to Dennis Hopper) comes looking for them and needless to say, needless smut and stupid jokes abound. The ending of the film tries so hard to be shocking but it's just funny.

This is a really bad film and I don't think I'll ever take anyone who lieks it seriously again.