Is this the strangest drag number in screen history?
Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a re-watch.Kyle MacLachlan seems to be having a ball this week amid the lunacy of Joe vs.
Carole. In honor of said nuttiness, we hereby refer you to one of his earliest–and strangest–cinematic outings.Blue Velvet blindsided audiences back in 1986 with its mix of mystery, satire and graphic sexuality.
The plot follows Jeffrey (MacLachlan), a college student who returns to his small, middle-American town after his father has a heart attack.
On a routine walk, he discovers a human ear in an empty field. That leads him onto the trail of a mystery involving organized crime and a leggy nightclub singer, Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini).
