Bobby Vinton's version is featured several times in David Lynch's 1986 film "Blue Velvet." The film drew partial inspiration from the song's lyrics, where Isabella Rossellini, who plays a singer in the film, also sings the song in-character. Lynch selected the song, because it conceptually matched the mood of the film. Specifically, in an interview he gave to the "Village Voice," Lynch said of the song: "The mood that came with that song a mood, a time, and things that were of that time." Songwriter Bernie Wayne would state that at the film's premiere he was told by Lynch that when he was a high school student in 1963 Vinton's "Blue Velvet" had been his favorite song. The film itself heavily incorporates portions of the song.