Blue Velvet movie poster (Alamy/PA) Major success came in the 1980s with the release of The Elephant Man, loosely based on the life of Joseph Merrick, a severely deformed man who lived in London ...
The auditorium was packed, and to say that the movie lived up to that poster would be an understatement ... with the film-noir-gone-mad genius of “Blue Velvet” (1986). Then came the dread ...