10 Movie Scenes That Went Completely Over The Top

Audiences only vaguely knew what to expect out of Blue Velvet, director David Lynch's first trip into modern American suburbia after his work in art house projects like Eraserhead and, due to Mel Brooks' insistence, big-budget Hollywood films like The Elephant Man. After his failure adapting Dune - something he did after turning down an opportunity to helm Return of the Jedi - Blue Velvet, on paper, looked like an interesting thriller.

A young, all-American boy is walking through a field in Anytown, USA, when he finds an ear. Where did said ear come from? The film turns out to be less interested in that as the camera pans down under the perfectly cut grass lawns to the seedy, insect-filled underbelly. Welcome to where we're spending the rest of the movie, with people replacing insects.

And leading our descent into sado-sexual madness is Dennis Hopper, snorting nitrous oxide and expounding on his love of Pabst Blue Ribbon. Not crazy enough yet? Let's have Al from Quantum Leap appear in drag and lip synch to Roy Orbison's "In Dreams." Even more creepy than Dean Stockwell is Hopper's heartfelt reaction.