Eraserhead (1977)
Genre: Fantasy / Horror
Duration: 89 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: David Lynch
Stars: Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart and Allen Joseph
IMDb score:
7,2 (143.988)
Releasedate: 28 September 1977
Eraserhead plot
"Where your nightmares end..."
Henry is an innocent young man with a weakness for insects and dirt. When he gets a girl pregnant, her parents force him into marriage. His wife soon grows tired of marital duties and abandons her husband and baby, a monster in birth. A grotesque, simultaneously moving and repulsive relationship develops between father and monstrosity.
Actors and actresses
Henry Spencer
Mary X
Mr. X
Mrs. X
Beautiful Girl Across the Hall
Lady in the Radiator
Man in the Planet
Grandmother
The Boy
Bum
Reviews & comments
De filosoof
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- 2544 messages
- 1743 votes
Brilliant, intriguing dark surrealist film (in the style of German expressionism). The industrial noise in the background, the black and white images and the hypnotic scenes suck you into a dark world or nightmare where everything is contaminated / taken over by dirt, filth, disease, sin, fear, madness without much meaning in it. discover because the story mainly exposes a stream of the subconscious.
The film is bizarre and inaccessible even by Lynch's standards, but also typical Lynch and possibly no longer matched by him because the film presents Lynch's art so pure (ie without any bow to commercialism).
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Sir Djuke
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- 385 messages
- 1070 votes
'Eraserhead', David Lynch's debut, appeared just like the first albums by The Sex Pistols, The Stranglers, Wire, The Damned and The Clash in 1977. Maybe that's why I've always considered the film a punk film in my mind. . It could also be because main actor Jack Nance's head reminded me a lot of David Thomas, the lead singer of Pere Ubu who also released their first record in 1977. More likely, though, I make the association because of the film's independent and provocative nature. Seeing 'Eraserhead' remains an unprecedented experience. You will never lose the images and certainly also the sounds. Lynch has never been as extreme as in this film and the mysterious elements of 'Twin Peaks', 'Bliue Velvet' and 'Lost Highway' originate here.
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Fisico
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- 10039 messages
- 5398 votes
A special film by Lynch. For some a lost masterpiece, for others a shameful production. For me it's more in between. Eraserhead has its charms and scores especially high in terms of atmosphere. Those black and white images give an ominous and alienating effect on the whole. The jesting soundtrack only reinforces that.
A film about parenthood and specifically fatherhood. A parental role that should be unconditional despite the child's flaws. Surrealism, fantasy and horror meet here.
Too bad this unique film didn't last for me until the end. I saw it a bit then. Technically certainly top, light and camera for example, very surprising in terms of content. Couldn't convince me 100%, but could certainly appreciate it.
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