r/horror • u/AutoModerator • Jul 28 '17
Discussion Series Blue Velvet (1986) /R/HORROR Official Discussion
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u/LizardOrgMember5 Jul 28 '17
One of David Lynch's best films but also one of his more linear ones in terms of narrative. You'll never listen to Bobby Vinton's music the same way again once you saw the movie.
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u/mike5446g Jul 28 '17
For me, Frank Booth is one of the most horrifying monsters ever projected on screen. He is why I consider Blue Velvet to be at least partial horror.
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u/Marlowe93 Jul 28 '17
A clear masterpiece.
Also, for me this movie did to Heineken what The Big Lebowski did to the Eagles.
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u/jsagesid Jul 28 '17
Maybe not horror, but it has that growing unsettling feeling that Lynch achieves so well. Fabulous, disturbing, beautiful film. Great Lynchtroduction for the unfamiliar.
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u/knobby_67 Jul 28 '17
The opening scene with the white picket fence, the 50's music, the timeless montage of the American idyll, says safety. Then we see the the farther collapse to the floor writhing in agony, then not moving. And slowly we move below ground, the music fade and our sensors are over come with the sounds and images of repulsive insects. Even in our idyll corruption and death are hiding all around us.
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u/Pokefan982144 Jul 28 '17
One of my all time favorite movies. Fantastic acting, direction, music, story, etc. Dreamlike in a way that only Lynch can creat. A clear masterpiece
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u/homer_j_simpsoy Jul 28 '17
T-Shirt available here. I have the same one, excellent quality.
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u/planetsatan Jul 29 '17
I'll be getting one of those.
Great fucking movie of course. Watched it almost daily when I was in my early teens. Rewatched recently, still amazing.
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u/FakkoPrime Jul 28 '17
I love this film, have since I first saw it in the theatre. One Lynch's greatest.
My wife hates it. She considers it so creepy that she gets upset if I even quote it (which I often do).
Is it horror? Possibly. I know quite a few people that think it's more than just upsetting, but terrifying. Like one of Frank's love letters.
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u/HungryColquhoun Jul 28 '17
I really didn't like it, and like all films I didn't like, I can't really remember why - but for a Lynch film I guess it's likely because it was too weird.
I like Eraserhead (super weird) and Mulholland Drive (not so weird), but I've never enjoyed any of his others that stride that middle ground (Blue Velvet, Inland Empire).
I guess if you like surrealism, then you know it already, so that's probably why most people like these films and I don't.
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u/BetaAlex81 Jul 28 '17
Fun fact: Shot in Wilmington, NC...10 years ago, while I was living there, my studio apartment was in the Blue Velvet building; the 5 story brick one on the corner, where the elevator was broken, and Kyle goes up to find Isabella, etc. That's my claim to fame.
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Jul 28 '17
The voyeuristic aspect of this always disturbed me, it's like Rear Window where Jimmy Stewart can't look away and feels frantically helpless. And Alfred used real life crime stories to construct that film. Blue Velvet has many of those aspects within it including the gruesome details. Lynch put his own spin on it and it's plain to see if you're a Hitchcock fan as well as a Lynch fan. Cleverly done and intimately creepy homage.
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u/SauzaPaul Jul 28 '17
Watched this over and over as a teen. It's been many years since I've seen it now, but I saw it come up on cable so i put it in the DVR.
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u/FloatAround Jul 28 '17
Not sure this should be horror, but a fantastic film none the less. PABST. BLUE. RIBBON!