“I don’t know if you’re a detective or a pervert.”

David Lynch has credited the film noir genre as a huge influence on his work, so it seems fitting that we screen his uncompromising vision of the underbelly of the happy suburban American dream as part of our “Gumshoes” series.

After stumbling upon a severed human ear, a young college student (Kyle MacLachlan) becomes obsessed with investigating its origins and gets entangled with a nightclub singer (Isabella Rossellini) and her psychopathic lover (Dennis Hopper). As he learns more about their sinister underworld of sex and violence, Jeffrey is led deeper and deeper into their depraved reality…to the point of no return.

This masterfully eerie, psychosexual nightmare is one of the greatest films of the 1980s and a neo-noir definitely worth revisiting, especially on the big screen!