Blue Velvet
Blue Velvet is a 1986 American neo-noir mystery film written and directed by David Lynch. Blending psychological horror with film noir, the film stars Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, and Laura Dern, and is named after the 1951 song of the same name. The film follows a college student who returns to his hometown and discovers a severed human ear in a field, which leads him to uncover a criminal conspiracy involving a troubled nightclub singer.
Plot
College student Jeffrey Beaumont returns to his suburban hometown of Lumberton, North Carolina, after his father, Tom, has a near-fatal attack from a medical condition. Walking home from the hospital, Jeffrey cuts through a vacant lot and discovers a severed human ear, which he takes to police detective John Williams. Williams's daughter Sandy tells Jeffrey that the ear somehow relates to a lounge singer named Dorothy Vallens. Intrigued, Jeffrey enters her apartment by posing as an exterminator. While there, he steals a spare key while she is distracted by a man in a distinctive yellow sport coat, whom Jeffrey nicknames the "Yellow Man".
Awards
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author | David Lynch |
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award | Sitges Film Festival Best Feature-Length Film award |
contentLocation | North Carolina |
director | David Lynch |
editor | Duwayne Dunham |
genre | crime horror mystery thriller |
keywords | abduct blue velvet break in cheat college student drug dealer drug dealing drug lord evidence room frank booth hide in dreams in the closet kill lip-sync meet morning nightclub act police detective police raid police station property room psychopath roy orbison sadomasochism sadomasochistic secret lover selling drugs sever sexual slavery sport coat steal walk walkie-talkie wound |
musicBy | Angelo Badalamenti |
nomination | Academy Award for Best Director |
producer | Fred C. Caruso |
publisher | De Laurentiis Entertainment Group |
recordedAt | North Carolina |
theme | film noir independent mystery thriller neo-noir psychological horror psychological thriller |