Blue Velvet

There's something going on behind the white picket fences of Lumberton, North Carolina, in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet. When college student Jeffrey Beaumont (MacLachlan) discovers a severed ear in a field, his curiosity leads him into an investigation that exposes the town’s darker side. With the help of a detective’s daughter (Dern), Jeffrey ventures beyond the familiarity of small-town life into an unknown world of obsession, violence, and corruption. Dean Stockwell plays Ben in a performance featuring what Variety described as “the most indelibly weird scene in any movie since the dawn of movies.” As the publication notes, Stockwell’s portrayal of Ben “will always be the one that immortalized him in film history.”