Returning home to visit his father who is in intensive care at the hospital, Jeffrey Beaumont stumbles upon a human ear he finds in a field. With local police detective Williams and the local police department unable to investigate, Jeffrey and Sandy, Detective Williams’s daughter decide to do their own investigation. But what Jeffrey and Sandy’s investigation leads them to discover that a dark underworld exists in their hometown. Jeffrey becomes suspicious of nightclub singer Dorothy Vallens, who is involved with Frank Booth, a violent and evil man.

Blue Velvet (1986)
  • Rating: (70,893 votes)
  • Tagline:It's a strange world. »
  • Runtime:120 minutes
  • Director: David Lynch
  • Country:USA
  • Actors:
    Dorothy Vallens
    Isabella Rossellini
    Jeffrey Beaumont (as Kyle Maclachlan)
    Kyle MacLachlan
    Frank Booth
    Dennis Hopper
    Sandy Williams
    Laura Dern
    Mrs. Williams
    Hope Lange
    Ben
    Dean Stockwell
    Detective Williams
    George Dickerson
    Mrs. Beaumont
    Priscilla Pointer
    Aunt Barbara
    Frances Bay
    Mr. Beaumont
    Jack Harvey
  • Genres:Crime, Mystery, Thriller
  • Producers:
    Fred C. Caruso
    producer (as Fred Caruso) 
    Richard A. Roth
    executive producer (as Richard Roth) 
  • Plots: A man returns to his home town after being away and discovers a severed human ear in a field. Not satisfied with the police's pace, he and the police detective's daughter carry out their own investigation. The object of his investigation turns out to be a beautiful and mysterious woman involved with a violent and perversely evil man. Written by Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com>
Blue Velvet
  • User's comment:A mesmerizing piece of cinema with element of masterpiece... by auberus

    The sexual revolution in film came some ten years after the label's coinage in the late Sixties. It probably began with Last Tango in Paris. Directed by the acclaimed Bernardo Bertolucci, Last Tango is notorious for a sex scene involving Marlon and roughly a third of a stick of butter. Theretofore sex in film could potentially be used as a means of revealing the lightest or the darkest character's traits: primarily, vulnerability, instinct, sadism and impulse. Blue Velvet is a good example of a movie using such a dynamic. Blue Velvet is not a film that is easily appreciated. Likewise, it is not a film that is easily forgotten. It is a timeless controversy, and it is a vision demanding attention if not praise.

    Set in a small American town, Blue Velvet is a dark, sensuous mystery involving the intertwining lives of four very different individuals. The film's painful realism reminds us that we are not immune to the disturbing events which transpire in Blue Velvet's sleepy community. There is a darker side of life waiting for us all. And as a critic said 'you either think it's dementedly wild at heart or a lost highway to nowhere'. Even some eighteen years after the release of Blue Velvet its vision remains wildly adamant relative to the stride of other works of contemporary noir. There have been many films about suburban crime, but none as dangerously imposing as this. Why is that so?

    If Blue Velvet might not be labeled as a masterpiece one has to acknowledge that there are in this movie a lot of so called 'masterpiece element' and if Blue Velvet will never considered as Mr. Lynch best feature, I personally can see a lot of David Lynch's genius flowing in that movie.

    First of all, the way David Lynch makes Blue Velvet increasingly disturbing is a perfect example of how pristine the dynamics of weirdness and tension are built (remember Eraserhead and Elephant Man). Through this process Mr. Lynch indeed deconstructs the audience expectations. The film setting and mood are introduced in an exposition lifted directly from older films (there are numerous references to It's A Wonderful Life). In result the film is initially expected to follow a particular path. The way Mr. Lynch associate elements of classic narrative methodology and 'his dynamics of noir' (previously explained) appears to be original at worst 'avant gardiste' at best.

    Second of all, the opposition between the creepiness of the plot and the setting of it is definitely for me a masterpiece element. The film is set in Lumberton. This does not represent a quaint, small town by similarity; it is one. Lumberton is filled with characters that are completely typical. I can almost see the cops eating doughnuts in the coffee shop and the local football star dating the head cheerleader. This typicality is definitely not out of coincidence but of intention. In fact these characters function to punctuate the story, not to distinguish it. The 'infamous' individuality of Lynch's vision is established in the darker side of Lumberton. Our perspective throughout the film is fixed on Jeffery, and is deliberately biased by his good nature. Jeffery is portrayed with great subtlety by Kyle MacLachlan (FBI agent from "Twin Peaks"). He is paired with Sandy (Laura Dern), the daughter of a neighborhood investigator who epitomizes to perfection the 'girl-next-door'; in Blue Velvet it is her literal function. Completing this diverse list of roles is a haunting and brief performance by Dean Stockwell as well as Dennis Hopper who creates a flabbergasting portrait of unrepentant and irredeemable evil. The confrontation or those characters or the collision among themselves makes for a mesmerizing experience.

    Once again Mr. Lynch succeeds in the masterful exercise of controlling the audience's attention. Most of us will not quite know what to make of it and we can disagree on the value of such a cinematic experience. However audacious, erotic, disturbing, haunting are adjectives that will always be linked with Blue Velvet. The 'Thriller' has just been re-invented by Mr. Lynch right in front of are eyes.


  • Quotes: Jeffrey Beaumont: You're a neat girl. Sandy Williams: So are you... I mean, you're a neat guy. Jeffrey Beaumont: See that clock on the wall? In five minutes you are not going to believe what I've told you.
  • Also known as: Terciopelo azul (Argentina), Terciopelo azul (Mexico), Terciopelo azul (Peru), Terciopelo azul (Spain), Blue Velvet (France), Blue Velvet (Poland), Veludo Azul (Brazil), Veludo Azul (Portugal), Ble veloudo (Greece - transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title), Blue Velvet - Verbotene Blicke (West Germany - TV title), Blue Velvet - ja sinisempi oli yö (Finland), Blue Velvet - och blåare var natten (Finland - Swedish title), Kék bársony (Hungary), Mavi kadife (Turkey - Turkish title), Modry samet (Czechoslovakia), Plavi barsun (Croatia), Plavi somot (Serbia), Velluto blu (Italy),

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