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Eraserhead

NR
Movie
1977
1h 29m
English
Horror
First time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child. David Lynch arrived on the scene in 1977, almost like a mystical UFO gracing the landscape of LA with its enigmatic radiance. His inaugural work, "Eraserhead" (1977), stood out as a cinematic anomaly, painting a surreal narrative of a young man navigating a dystopian, industrialized America, grappling not only with his tumultuous home life but also contending with an irate girlfriend and a mutant child.
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Directed By: David Lynch
Written By: David Lynch (Screenplay)

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Moorogan-deleted-1458203688 says...
10 years ago
One of the only genuinely frightening films I can think of. Lynch taps into the fears of parenthood and portrays them in his signature surrealist manner, within the setting of a dystopian, industrial world. Explaining anymore would simply ruin the brilliant moments that this film consists of, but I'll end here by saying it gives new meaning to the phrase "winner winner chicken dinner".
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benoliver999 says...
7 years ago
David Lynch started his career as he meant to continue, with this disturbing surrealist tale of a man who discovers he is to be the father of a grossly disfigured child. As he and his new wife care for it, they slowly descend into madness. Eraserhead quickly sucks the viewer into its drab industrial dystopia with some of the most ominous, chilling sound design work ever put to film. A low hum throbs through the whole picture, it’s uneasy and relentless. Putting so much work into the soundtrack was a clever move, it helps create a world outside without having to build expensive sets and hire lots of actors, while still being incredibly effective. Although the film was made on a shoestring, it never feels cheap. Lynch borrows heavily from film noir and builds on it, taking the genre in a new direction. Almost 40 years since its release, Eraserhead is as bold, innovative and downright unsettling as it ever was. http://benoliver999.com/film/2016/10/29/eraserhead/
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orlandojericho1992 says...
7 years ago
Now I understand why it is a cult movie, I love this kind of movies where you have to spin your brain to discover the message of it. I love how it represents the fear that fatherhood generates in the protagonist and how his subconscious deals with it.
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Jordyep says...
9 months ago
It kinda reminds me of _Memento_ in the sense that its scale and ambition pale in comparison to some of the director’s later works; however, intellectually and artistically we meet a filmmaker who’s already really well formed and defined. Industrial sound design, surrealism, mystery and abstractions; it’s all here already. Probably not the easiest film to get into if you’re new to Lynch’ filmography, but also not his most challenging by any stretch (especially if you understand how to read movies like this). 8/10
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Zephir
CONTAINS SPOILERS7/10  8 years ago
David Lynch's movies are not easy to review, in fact I think words can not describe Surrealist "movies" generally speaking. Yeah I put that by purpose in brackets because they are not like ordinary movies where you expect a clear storyline, character development, an appropriate soundtrac More
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Sigeki Ogino
one year ago
This black-and-white, overcast film is irrepressibly unsettling and immerses the viewer in a visual experience that is almost like peering into the mind of a madman. David Lynch's crazy visual universe began here and reached its climax with "Mulholland Drive". It is a film that transcends the catego More
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manicure
9/10  3 years ago
“Eraserhead” is one of those symbolic movies, more like a collection of unsettling moving paintings. It’s Lynch's only feature film to be old-school surrealist, though the way reality is distorted could be considered as expressionist.

There are sequences that could be interpreted in mul More
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