40th Anniversary!

There’s something going on behind the white picket fences of Lumberton, North Carolina. And after stumbling upon a severed human ear in a field, mystery-loving college student Jeffrey Beaumont is determined to find out what. Teaming up with the daughter of a local police detective, Jeffrey’s investigation leads him into a strange world of sensuality and violence, with the intrigue of the missing ear seemingly stemming from the relationship between a troubled nightclub singer and a sociopathic sadomasochist.

“A masterpiece of mystery and erotic terror.” — The New York Times critic Vincent Canby

“The first populist surrealist — a Frank Capra of dream logic.” — Pauline Kael

“The last real earthquake to hit cinema… No one could quite match the traumatizing combination of horrific, comedic, aural, and subliminal effects Lynch rumbled out in this masterpiece… Still a hilarious, red-hot poker to the brain.” – Guy Maddin