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09/25/07
Eraserhead (1976)
89 %
Reviews Counted: 37 Fresh: 33 Rotten:4 Average Rating: 7.8/10
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David Lynch's surreal Eraserhead uses detailed visuals and a creepy score to create a bizarre and disturbing look into a man's fear of parenthood.
Runtime: 90 mins
Synopsis: Director David Lynch's feature-film debut is a masterpiece of the macabre and grotesque. Reportedly a reaction to the news that he was about to become a father, Lynch's ERASERHEAD follows a sensitive young man as he struggles to cope with impending parenthood. Henry Spencer (Jack Nance)... [More]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Jeanne Bates, Joseph Allen, Allen Joseph
Director: David Lynch
Screenwriter: David Lynch
Producer: David Lynch
Composer: David Lynch, Fats Waller, Peter Ivers
Screenwriter: David Lynch
Producer: David Lynch
Composer: David Lynch, Fats Waller, Peter Ivers
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Compared to the rest of Lynch's work this is a crude assemblage of ideas that would be used to far greater effect in later movies.
04/17/01
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Disturbing, repulsive, hilarious, frightening, sensitive and challenging.
09/25/07
Top Critic
The mind boggles to learn that Lynch labored on this pic for five years.
09/25/07
Top Critic
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.
09/25/07
Lynch's films exist independent of space and time, and only after twisting and turning through their labyrinthine visual corridors can we begin to piece together how they came to be in the first place.
07/03/07
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.
01/17/07
What a masterpiece of texture, a feat of artisanal attention, an ingenious assemblage of damp, dust, rock, wood, hair, flesh, metal, ooze.
01/17/07
Whether there is more here than meets the horrified eye, is debatable, but 'Eraserhead' leaves no viewer cold.
01/08/07
Nothing more than a pretentious, incoherent and boring exercise in self-indulgent weirdness.
09/02/06
The discomfort we feel with the film indicates that the truths contained in Eraserhead, whatever they may be, are as surely true as they are unexamined.
06/28/06
A stream of subconsciousness work of art, Eraserhead is Lynch's most surreal film. Packed with grotesque physical deformity and quest for spiritual purity, the film flaunts eerie sound and brilliant imagery.
04/27/06
Eraserhead is a work of rare genius and real bravery; it’s a comic nightmare we all have at once and whose meanings lay just out of reach.
07/01/05
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Does anybody have the Eraserhead box dvd?
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