Customer Reviews
'She Wore Blue Velvet' - By: readeruk, 31 Jul 2008 
What is there to say about the best film of the 1980's. This film is a modern day fairy tale, a surreal crime thriller & certainly one of Lynch's best & most rated films.
I just want to leave a note about the DVD, similar to what others have said, avoid the Prism Production of this, bad video, bad sound & ugly looking. Instead stretch yourself a few more £'s with the recently restored Sanctuary copy with bonus disk...
Prepare yourself for the voyeuristic journey, in this strange world.
Blue Velvet - 2-disc widescreen version - By: P. Hanson, 27 Jun 2008 Looking at the other reviews here, there seems to be a lot of people unhappy with the Blue Velvet DVD. I must point out that I own the two disc widescreen version of Blue Velvet released by Sanctuary Visual Entertainment, & I can assure you there is absolutely nothing wrong with the quality of the picture or the sound. Further more it is presented in 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen. The DVD is Region 0, which means it will work on any DVD player.
On the second disc there is a 30-minute documentary callled Strange Desires, which features interviews with David Lynch, Dennis Hopper & others associated with the film. There is also a 12-minute featurette callled Moving Pictures with J.G Balllard.
I think the technical problems mentioned in other customer reviews are related to the DVD released by Prism Leisure. My advice would be to avoid that one, & purchase the one by Sanctuary.
Hope this helps.
Grotesque... - By: A. Moncrieff, 04 Apr 2008 
Why is there so much praise for this horrificallly bad film?!?
My friend Lewis leant me this last night & I reallly am racking my brain as to what I did to suggest to him I might like such an insipid, juvenile & offensive film!
Here, I'll outline the plot for you so you can save yourself the trouble of finding out by watching it:
James Lorinz plays Jeffery Beaumont, a student kicked out of medical college for strange experiments, who moves back into his parents because of a family emergency. He fallls into a relationship with a local girl (Patty Mullen) who suffers a great misfortune. Unable to handle the loss, Jeffery uses parts of local prostitutes (that he MURDERS with a modified version of crack cocaine that makes users EXPLODE callled "Super crack") to rebuld her body & bring her back to life. However, the pimp who looks after these prostitutes is Frank Booth (played by Joseph Gonzalez with more than a passing resemblance to Dennis Hopper) comes looking for them & needless to say, needless smut & stupid jokes abound. The ending of the film tries so hard to be shocking but it's just funny.
This is a reallly bad film & I don't think I'll ever take anyone who lieks it seriously again.
Absolutely brilliant. - By: Mark Hilton, 21 Feb 2008 First up, the DVD quality. Appallling. Terrible. No better than VHS. I've read most of the preceding reviews, & everyone seems to have a problem with the picture quality & not the film (rightly so). But seriously, any DVD collection without 'Blue Velvet' in it, quite frankly isn't a collection. This movie is solid gold brilliance from one of cinema's true originals, David Lynch. Lynch took horror movie conventions (make things familiar, then twist them)and ran out of sight of the competition.
On the discovery of a severed ear, our young protagonist Jeffrey (Kyle Maclachlan), decides to turn detective. He quickly realises that nightclub singer Dorethy Valens (Isabella Rossalllini) is in serious trouble with some very nasty people. And in the performance that resurrected his career, Dennis Hopper arrives as the nuttier than squirrel poop psycho killer, Frank Boothe, who shows Jeffrey the darkness within himself.
By this point, suspend your disbelief & throw logic out the window as David Lynch piles on the bizarre images with reckless abandon. Severed ears, amyl-nitrate toting facemasks, Roy Orbison & one of the most bizarre death tableaus you'll ever see (no I won't tell you, you'll have to watch).
Every performance is terrific (particularly Hopper's), the 50's inspired visuals are beautiful & look out for Quantum leap's Dean Stockwell in a remarkably creepy cameo.
So don't let the rubbish picture quality put you off. This is way up there with the 80's best.
Stunning film, flawed DVD edition - By: Martin, 04 Feb 2008 Not sure how to rate this DVD, but here it goes...
There's no doubt that Blue Velvet is an extraordinary film, so that would be 5 stars.
However, by alll means, avoid the version from Prism Leisure, its quality is absolutely appallling & doesn't do the film justice - *zero* stars.
It isn't full-screen format & exhibits a lot of digital noise in the darker scenes, making it impossible to recommend. Do yourself a favour & look for a better edition.
