Lynch allows his preoccupation with the macabre and the perverse to
drip into the cradle of American suburbia and weaves his most
nightmarish tapestry yet. The plot revolves around the rites of
passage of Jeffrey Beaumont (MacLachlan) through a dark and menacing
underworld inhabited by maniacal Frank Booth (Hopper) and
mother-in-fugue Dorothy Vallens (Rossellini). From opening
metaphor to closing utopia, Lynch's film is fully realised, its own
twisted reasoning and sensibility in perfect unity with the lurid,
sultry camerawork. Stunningly unique and idiosyncratic
movie-making; one of the most influential films of the 1980s.
