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".

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.

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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.

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

very cute and cosy film

David Lynch you are a genius.

Never before have I seen a movie that disturbed me, grossed me out and left me confused, but for some reason I can't stop thinking about it. Eraserhead is both shocking and unique, as this movie drives into the mind of a man who's having a crisis rising a child that he never asked for. What David Lynch is so good at doing is making he's movies feel like a nightmare or a dream, just by how it's directed and shot creates the effect perfectly, and Eraserhead is the icing on that cake.

Watched the movie twice already and after thinking about it, Eraserhead is a work of art.

This is one noisy ass film.

Level "Interesting" • 7 :heart: • Entertaining and Good.

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 categories of mere avant-garde and surrealist cinema, and is a film of overwhelming experimentation, dinners that abnormal psychologists and psychopathologists are in hot pursuit of, and eerie images that look like a psychological test created by a psychiatrist as a desperate measure for the sake of untreatable mental patients. Even ten years after my first viewing, the eerie images stick in my mind like mold. It is David Lynch's masterpiece and perhaps one of the most important films made since the 1970s.

Dark as it should be,with an excellent black & white usage. The plot however...

Even if you don't get it, it's a totally mesmerizing film. I've seen more expensive movies that failed to held my attention for even a half of its length.

The first thing I thought when I went into the film was that it was an imitation of Ingmar Bergman's cinema: A noisy silence, the expressionism use typical of European cinema (for example, "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari"). However, this is not the case. It is a unique film of its own, with a totally terrifying dystopian setting. The sets are dingy, dark, and set in some gnawed and sick 1920s.

The story, in a nutshell, deals with the delusions of a man upon learning that he is the father of a "worm" son. A Kafkaesque story.

For me, although I may not have understood the film, or the nightmares of the protagonist, I am totally enraptured by the aesthetics of the film.

I can appreciate the cinematography, the score, and a big ball of weird being left up for a whole lotta interpretation. But I found this film to be more frustrating than entertaining.

I finally decided to check Eraserhead out after seeing it at the tippy top of a bunch of lists and receiving recommendations from friends. In the end, I just wasn’t as satisfied as so many other viewers were.

I watched this... I had no idea what I watched, but... I am glad I did. It is one of the more unsettling movies I have ever seen. The atmosphere is terrifying. A lot of the movie has no dialogue, but that is quickly overlooked because of the background noise. There is always one, and that's what makes it more unsettling. _It is frightening without any need for physical horror._

I can comfortably and repeatedly say David Lynch is a "no" for me. In every way. In those ways that haven't been invented or given words yet. So many ways, just "no."

The movie had a 50s twilight zone kind of vibe to it :sparkles: :dizzy:

I know that it's supposed to be a weird mindfuck movie. Still, I didn't freak out, and that could be because I looked at the more profound meaning of how society is affected by industrialization/capitalism and the negative consequences. I could be off, and it could have many other interpretations or none at all.

I'd recommend this to people who have watched some weird movies so that they can feel a bit comfortable with this one. It's not scary, but it is strange for sure. I had a good time.

Easerhead appears on many lists as a “too see movie”, but I have to say it’s terrible. I’m sorry, but just because it’s David Lynch’s first movie doesn’t mean you have to like it. I couldn’t get past the first 20 minutes of this movie. It has all the traits of being a student film but somehow appears as one of the best sci-fi movies on many lists. Sorry but it’s terrible. There’s no amount of weed which would make this a great experience.