“Shocking, visionary, rapturously controlled, its images of innocence and a dark, bruising sexuality drop straight into our unconscious where they rest like depth charges.”
Screened in tribute to Dean Stockwell (1936-2021)
Kyle Maclachlan stars as Jeffrey Beaumont, an innocent young college student who returns to his home town in order to care for his sick father. But a grisly discovery made while walking through a vacant lot leads Jeffrey into a dangerous world of organised crime, sadomasochistic violence, sexual perversion and drug abuse. Dennis Hopper truly terrifies as unhinged criminal, Frank Booth, and Isabella Rossellini smoulders as damaged lounge singer Dorothy Vallens - while Dean Stockwell all but steals the show as the enigmatic nightclub-haunting “Ben”. Also staring Laura Dern as detective’s daughter, Sandy, Lynch's neo-noir masterpiece is an unforgettable journey beneath the unassuming surface of small town America.
