David Lynch's surreal peek behind the picket fences of small-town America reveals a corrupt shadowy world of evil, sadism and madness. College boy Kyle MacLachlan stumbles across a severed human ear and with the help of sweet Laura Dern turns detective only to become enveloped in a nightmare of voyeurism, drugs and sex personified by psychotic madman Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper). Even after 25 years there is nothing quite like it and it still looks as modern as hell.