Frank Booth (Blue Velvet)
Frank Booth is a fictional character and the main antagonist in David Lynch's 1986 psychological thriller Blue Velvet, portrayed by Dennis Hopper.A violent drug-dealer, he has kidnapped the family of lounge singer Dorothy Vallens, holding them hostage in order to force her into becoming his sex slave.[1] Frank Booth is an over-the-top, crazed, loud, foul-mouthed and psychopathic gangster, drug-dealer and pimp, who is the central figure in Lumberton, North Carolina's criminal underworld.He is an aggressively unhinged, sadistic, perverse, abusive and animalistic man with a hair-trigger, light-switch-like temper that flares instantly into extreme rage and/or violence without warning or provocation.He also appears to have suffered extreme trauma and abuse as a child and had an incestuous relationship with his mother, which manifested his horrific and monstrously inhuman character traits—which he seems to enjoy having, as he enhances these traits by inhaling an unidentified gas from a tank.Using a police radio to distract Frank, Jeffrey hides in a closet with a gun and watches while Booth returns to the apartment to execute the Yellow Man.Several samples of Frank Booth are used in the Acid Bath song "Cassie Eats Cockroaches" from their debut album When the Kite String Pops.[citation needed]In a documentary on the 2002 Special edition DVD version of the film, Hopper says the drug was amyl nitrite, an angina medication used recreationally as an inhalant in the disco club scene.