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Blue Velvet (1986) Movie Information |
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Overall Rank: |
311 |
Avg. Rating: |
3.05/4 |
# of Ratings: |
319 |
Genres: |
Drama, Crime |
Rating: |
R |
Language: |
English |
Theater Date: | 09/19/1986 |
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Director: |
David Lynch |
Actors: |
Kyle MacLachlan
Dennis Hopper
Isabella Rossellini
Brad Dourif
Laura Dern
Dean Stockwell |
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Plot Outline:
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After finding a severed ear in a field, a young man unsatisfied with the police's work delves into a dark and sordid world.
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Yojimbo 07/06/2012 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
Rating of
3/4 |
Archetypal David Lynch which examines his favourite subject matter of the dark underbelly of superficially "normal" middle America, this is as dark and disturbing as it gets. Human beings are far more frightening than any "monster"... |
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mitchellyoung 12/08/2010 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
Rating of
2.5/4 |
I appreciate some of the creative elements in this film - particularly the soundtrack and visual cues - but it's too weird for me without having a meaning behind the weirdness. Dennis Hopper's character, though, is a purely memorable villain, for better or worse. |
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Tia Maria 08/31/2008 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
Rating of
3/4 |
I enjoyed this movie much more than Mulholland Drive, although i don't think it has the same standard of suspense and mystery as Mulholland drive.
It is about a guy called Jeffrey who, after finding a severed ear in a field, takes it to the police. But after hearing that he can't be told what the police find out about it, he takes the mystery into his own hands. Eventually, he becomes so wrapped up in the happenings that he can't get out.
Good movie, but different to how I imagined. |
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01/20/2013 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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Take a deep breath!!!!! |
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Beautiful, disturbing, suspenseful, hypnotic!
Wide eyed college student Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) returns to his hometown of Lumberton, North Carolina when his father falls ill of stroke. While walking home from the hospital, he discovers a severed decaying human ear in a vacant lot, and with the help of sweet-as-pie all-American girl, Sandy Williams (Laura Dern), the daughter of the town sheriff tracks that ear to the gloomy Lincoln Street apartment of a sultry, seductive singer Dorothy Vallens, who, as played by Isabella Rossellini, seems both terrified and turned on.
Jeffrey ends up drawn into Dorothy's bizarre world - a world where she is being repeatedly sexually abused by her husband and young child's kidnapper, Frank Booth, a nitrous oxide huffing sadist who has a st... |
Rating of
3.5/4 |
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02/01/2012 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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Blue Velvet review |
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An erotic thriller that can be enjoyed in repeat viewings based on its film-noir style, enticing plot, menacing antagonist, background music and spectacular cinematography. One of the most accessible as well from Lynch coupled with a very ferociously creepy villain. Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) visits his father and detects an ear from a field. He meets-up with Police Detective John Williams (George Dickerson) to show the ear and converses with her daughter Sandy (Laura Dern). Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini) maybe connected to the ear according Sandy so she and Jeffrey investigate her apartment. Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper) does something sexually perverted to Dorothy.
The screenplay was noteworthy with quotes from the character: Jeffrey/Sandy – "It’s a strange world i... |
Rating of
4/4 |
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01/19/2011 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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The Secret World of David Lynch |
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A film that only Lynch could've made, Blue Velvet is a surreal tale of the hidden world beneath the innocent facade of American life. Like all Lynch movies, Blue Velvet is about the unseen, the hidden, the unknown. However, this is the only film of his that truly explores every aspect of humanity. We are introduced to Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan), a young college student brought home to a town where not everything is peaceful as it seems. We are shown the terrifying underground controlled by the deranged Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper) and the people he controls, including the singer Dorothy Vallens, whose son Frank kidnapped. We are forced to look at the violent wretches that even the most innocent people can become when pushed to their limit. Although at first glance, the plot i... |
Rating of
4/4 |
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