A sensual mystery thriller about strange happenings in a small all-American town. A college student stumbles across a bizarre mystery and wants to know more, perhaps too much more. The oblique world he's found lurking beneath his hometown's picture-postcard veneer is about to become violently stranger.

Jeffrey arrives in the calm and orderly small-town America, a setting that frequently appears in David Lynch's films. In the confrontation between Jeffrey, Dorothy, and Frank, the apparent normalcy of the space begins to collapse, thrusting us into a Lynchian space-time where reality and fantasy, consciousness and unconsciousness, wakefulness and nightmares, day and night, childhood and adulthood, riddles and clues all intertwine. The Slow Club, where Dorothy sings in Blue Velvet, serves as a precursor to the Silencio Club in Lynch's iconic film Mulholland Drive(2001). (Lee Nara)