7. Blue Velvet (1986)
So what do you do after you jumped from art house director to creepy drama to science fiction? Return to kick small-town Americana in the balls with Blue Velvet; Dennis Hopper's creepiest movie ever and featuring one of the oddest
voyeuristic WTF moments of popular cinema in the eighties. It's stellar cast included Hopper, Isabella Rossalini, Dean Stockwell and Kyle MacLachlan and was billed as a quasi-mystery/crime-thriller of unusual style and finish. It bounced from a sado-masochistic romance to a John Waters'-esque send up of American culture. It also showcased the start of a trend that was to become a trademark of Lynch's style, the bi-polar feel of his movies; the idea that there were 2 different movies you were watching that had been spliced together. To quote Roger Ebert;
"Blue Velvet" is like the guy who drives you nuts by hinting at horrifying news and then saying, "Never mind."