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  • Awesome Music: "Slaughterhouse" by Powermad; "Baby Please Don't Go" by Them, "Up In Flames" by Koko Taylor and "Wicked Game" by Chris Isaak.
  • Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: As a David Lynch film, Wild at Heart has many strange scenes, but the scene where Lula talks about her missing cousin Dell takes the cake as Jingle Dell is, well, a lunatic.
  • Crosses the Line Twice:
    • The opening scene where Sailor beats a hitman to death, due to how long it goes for.
    • Bobby Peru's death is hilariously gruesome. He gets shot by the cops, drops to his knees and accidentally blows his head off with his own shotgun.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse: Bobby Peru is generally regarded as one of the best characters despite only appearing towards the end of the film. It helps that he is a creepy Giggling Villain that manages to outsmart Sailor and has a very gory death sequence.
  • Nightmare Fuel: The lipstick scene, Johnnie's torture/death scene, Bobby threatening to rape Lula and the car accident qualify as rather frightening moments.
  • One-Scene Wonder:
    • Lula's cousin, Jingle Dell, appears in one flashback as a crazy man who loves Christmas to the point of dressing up as Santa every day to make Christmas last all year long and believes that aliens are controlling his mind.
    • Jack Nance plays 00 Spool, an old man who has interesting dialogue about his dog.
    • Sherilyn Fenn appears in one creepy scene as a dying, well-dressed car crash victim who makes Non Sequitur, *Thud* babblings about her mother and her purse before falling to the ground coughing up blood.
  • Signature Line: Sailor's description of his snakeskin jacket is not only a funny quote but also a good summary of Sailor himself.
    Sailor: This is a snakeskin jacket! And for me it's a symbol of my individuality and my belief in personal freedom.
  • Signature Scene:
    • The intro scene is notorious for its depiction of Sailor busting an assassin's head open and then giving Lula's mother a classy yet menacing Death Glare.
    • The two scenes in which Sailor sings Elvis Presley love songs to woo Lula are some of the more popular parts of the movie.
  • Special Effects Failure: Sailor's broken-nose prosthetic in the end doesn't even come close to matching his skin tone.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Juana and Reggie get fantastically ominous introductions and have an implied Evil Is One Big, Happy Family with Sailor's False Friend Perdita, but they remain The Unfought and the only thing they do after being hired is kill Johnnie in a creepy yet short scene.

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