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Eraserhead
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This surrealist body horror examines male paranoia: Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his hideously deformed baby.
This surrealist body horror examines male paranoia: Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his hideously deformed baby.
Actors:
Brad Keeler,
Gill Dennis,
Peggy Lynch,
Jennifer Lynch,
John Monez,
Jack Fisk,
Jack Walsh
Brad Keeler
Gill Dennis
25 January 1941, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Peggy Lynch
8 February 1947, USA
Jennifer Lynch
7 April 1968, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
John Monez
Jack Fisk
19 December 1945, Canton, Illinois, USA
Jack Walsh
Country:
United States
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Linear plots with easily defined cause and effect are the kinds of stories we are used to, but sometimes it's refreshing to enter a world where logic takes a backseat to purely evocative storytelling.September 25, 2007
The mind boggles to learn that Lynch labored on this pic for five years.October 14, 2014
David Lynch's Eraserhead must stand as a pinnacle of screen surrealism to rival Bunuel's Un Chien Andalou.September 25, 2007
Some of it is disturbing, some of it is embarrassingly flat, but all of it shows a degree of technical accomplishment far beyond anything else on the midnight-show circuit.January 13, 2017
"In heaven, everything is fine," but in Eraserhead (1977) nothing is fine. David Lynch's debut feature is grim, disturbed, mutated, claustrophobic, a world that appears to be unraveling-or, more accurately, decaying-before our eyes.October 14, 2014
What makes Eraserhead great -- and still, perhaps the best of all Lynch's films? Intensity. Nightmare clarity. And perhaps also it's the single-mindedness of its vision.September 29, 2015
It is the vision of the paranoid transposed upon the screen; the fact that it remains extremely interesting ought, I suppose, to be worrying. But perhaps our eyes have become so desensitised that nothing, any more, will widen the iris.January 17, 2007
Lynch, as he does with all his films, refuses to explain anything, although he does say that he has yet to read an interpretation that matches his.October 14, 2014
It's beautiful and strange, with its profoundly disturbing ambient sound design of industrial groaning, as if filmed inside some collapsing factory or gigantic dying organism.October 14, 2014
A murkily pretentious shocker.January 17, 2007
What a masterpiece of texture, a feat of artisanal attention, an ingenious assemblage of damp, dust, rock, wood, hair, flesh, metal, ooze.