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Blue Velvet [Region 2]

starring: Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Hope Lange
directed by: David Lynch

: Blue Velvet [Region 2]
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5014293158954
Format: PAL
Number Of Discs: 1
Region Code: 2
Sales Rank: 204282
Theatrical Release Date: September 19, 1986



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Amazon.com essential video:
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



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A SADISTICALLY EROTIC DREAMSCAPE
This is, in my opinion, Lynch's best film. There are few director's that could play with psycho-dramas ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - 2.5 stars out of 4
The Bottom Line:

A bizarre fever-dream of a movie, Blue Velvet succeeds in its attempts to ... Read More


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Blue Villain
I saw "Blue Velvet" listed in "The New York Times list of Best 1000 Movies ever Made". The reviews that ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Very close to velvety smooth...
Let it be known that David Lynch has a very unique style; a style that is a very acquired taste. You either ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - yummy! =)
this movie is a classic mind bender! if you like david lynch's other stuff, like lost highway or wild at heart, ... Read More

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