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It's long been available for paid-for viewing on top streaming sites from YouTube to Apple TV+, but now Blue Velvet has been made available for free.
The eighties classic, directed by David Lynch, is well known for its graphic sexual and violent content, which saw it declined by several studios when it was made in 1985.
But against the odds, and the opinions of studio bosses, it was the launching pad needed to revitalise Lynch's career after his 1984 film Dune flopped.
Starring Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper and Laura Dern, the film follows teenage detective Jeffrey Beaumont in his return home after his father suffers a devastating stroke.
Finding a severed ear near his home, he teams up with Sandy Williams, a detective's daughter, to try their hand at cracking the mysterious case.
But it sees the duo getting themselves caught up in the web of psychopathic abuser and crime boss Frank Booth, and Dorothy Vallens, a nightclub singer being held against her will.
Blue Velvet has been made available for free, with the film available to stream on Prime Video
The film starred actress Laura Dern as Sandy Williams, a detective's daughter who helps main character Jeffrey try to crack a mysterious case
The film, which is considered one of Lynch's most successful films, will now be available to stream for Amazon Prime Video customers.
In 1987, the Evening Standard wrote of the film: 'At the risk of being called a sick son of a b****, I believe it has to be one of the most extraordinary erotic and mesmerising experiences I have ever had in cinema.
'Blue Velvet has the power to unsettle and disturb like nothing else'.
In 2008, Blue Velvet was named among the top ten greatest mystery films by the American Film Institute, having won a number of film critics awards in the years following its release.
And it currently holds an impressive 91% rating on at-home critics site Rotten Tomatoes, with more than one hundred top critics around the globe rating it among the best.
It comes after show star Laura Dern revealed that she was forced to drop out of higher education after landing her role in the 1986 hit.
Dern, 58, famously played detective's daughter Sandy Williams in the neo-noir mystery thriller that spawned a decades-long collaboration with Oscar nominee Lynch, 79.
While appearing on the Where Everybody Knows Your Name podcast this week, the actress said she was enrolled at the University of California when she got the part back in 1985.
The film was initially rejected from a number of studios because of its graphic nature
Lynch was nominated for Best Direct 1987 Academy Awards thanks to the film
'I was 17, so excited to get into UCLA. I was there for two days, and I had auditioned and got offered the role in Blue Velvet,' she told the show's hosts.
Dern faced an immediate roadblock after she requested a leave of absence from the head of UCLA's film department so she could shoot Blue Velvet.
She said the department head responded with: 'Absolutely not.'
Dern was called back to his office the next day after he had read the controversial script for himself, to let the actress know she would be 'out' from the degree course.
He also called Dern, who was studying psychology, 'insane' for prioritising the graphic project over her education.
Blue Velvet shot on location in Wilmington, North Carolina from August to November 1985.
It received an R-rating as it notably features full-frontal nudity, graphic violence and a rape scene, sparking major controversy following its release.
Nonetheless, it earned Lynch Best Director nomination at the 1987 Academy Awards.
Dern forged a tight creative bond with Lynch, who went on to cast her in two more of his films: Wild At Heart (1990) and Inland Empire (2006).
