Synopsis
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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Cast
- Jack NanceHenry Spencer
- Charlotte StewartMary X
- Allen JosephMr. X
- Jeanne BatesMrs. X
- Judith RobertsBeautiful Girl Across the Hall
- Laurel NearLady in the Radiator
- Jack FiskMan in the Planet
- Jean LangeGrandmother
- Thomas CoulsonThe Boy
- John MonezBum
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The A.V. Club
See Eraserhead once and it’ll lodge itself firmly in some dank recess of your brain and refuse to vacate. - 100
Empire
Gothically shot in black and white and numerous shots that have influenced the next generation of directors, this is a classic, no matter how comfortable it is to watch. - 100
Time Out
Eraserhead is a singular work of the imagination, a harrowing, heartbreaking plunge into the darkest recesses of the soul. - 100
Chicago Tribune
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; Lynch's complete control over this material, where, working on a shoestring, he served as director, producer, writer, editor and sound designer. - 100
The Guardian
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. - 100
RogerEbert.com
Here was a film that took elements that one might have encountered in other movies in the past—black humor, gore, surrealism, erotic imagery, gorgeous black-and-white cinematography and oddball performances—and presented them in such a unique and deeply personal manner that the end result was something that literally looked, sounded and felt like nothing that had ever come before it. - 100
Slant Magazine
Eraserhead is an extraordinarily raw film that’s not so much an announcement of its filmmaker’s obsessions, but a complete, intimate, and heartbreaking fulfillment of them. - 90
The New Yorker
The slow, strange rhythm is very unsettling and takes some getting used to, but it's an altogether amazing, sunsuous film; it even has an element of science fiction and some creepy musical numbers, and the soundtrack is as original and peculiar as the imagery.
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