Set to the haunting melody of Roy Orbison's In Dreams, David Lynch's exploration of a sleepy small town caught in the grips of the American Nightmare retains all of its disquieting power three decades on. 

Colliding sensuality and violence, voyeurism and innocence, menace and magic, Blue Velvet is a deceptively dark story of amateur sleuthing gone weird. Kyle MacLachlan stars as the wannabe gumshoe drawn into a warped lust triangle with a damaged femme fatale played by Isabella Rossellini and an unhinged thug played by Dennis Hopper. Equal parts shocking and compelling, it remains a potent dissection of the American psyche, its social mores and its sexual proclivities.

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