The famously weird filmmaker set his 1986 movie in Lumberton, with many modifications, and filmed in Wilmington during its ...

Released on September 19, 1986, the film starred Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Laura Dern, Dennis Hopper, and Hope Lange in prominent roles. The plot of Blue Velvet follows a young man ...

Lynch spent time in Wilmington in the mid 1980s, when the director made one of his best-known and most notorious films.

David Lynch answered the call with Blue Velvet. Lynch was an unlikely saviour. He'd made his breakthrough in 1977 with Eraserhead, a deeply disturbing, surreal nightmare of a movie. It was a cult ...