Really not my type of film. I just found it annoying and boring. I'm sure a lot of stuff happens in the subtext and stuff but I just wasn't interested. I didn't want to find out what was going to happen. There were many moments where I really felt 'what on earth is going on?'. I ... read more
Jack Nance,
Charlotte Stewart,
Jeanne Bates,
Allen Joseph,
Judith Anna Roberts
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Filmed intermittently over the course of a five-year period, David Lynch's radical feature debut stars Jack Nance as Henry Spencer, a man living in an unnamed industrial wasteland. Upon learning that ... read more
Directed by: David Lynch
Release Date: January 1, 1977
DVD Release Date: June 7, 2005
Stats: 4,974 reviews
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May 19, 2012
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March 4, 2012fb1664868775Horror in white noise. The "In Heaven" scene is great.
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November 6, 2011
A bizarre surrealist film by one of my favorite directors, David Lynch, is what Eraserhead is. My take on this film the first time I saw it was that it was strange and cool. My second take said the same thing, just with the scary factor removed... but on my third take, I decided ... read more
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October 25, 2011
Its not scary but different. I didn't love it or hate it, I just thought it was something that separates itself from the crowd. In the end, I have no idea what its about but I want to see more Lynch!
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October 2, 2011
Eraserhead presents a terrific plot, just like the direction of Lynch, our screenplay and the strange and unforgettable actings of the cast. A surrealist and shocking portrait of parenthood, an schizophrenic view of another side of the cinema. Bizarre, scary and until funny, Davi... read more
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July 20, 2011
Just it's hard to imagine cinema without Steven Spielberg or Stanley Kubrick, so a world without David Lynch seems as absurd and as nightmarish as one of his films. The man who is arguably America's greatest living filmmaker has so completely re-written the rulebook for surrealis... read more
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July 13, 2011
I sometimes dream of waking to a completely dark world, a world with no sunlight and minimal artificial light. My vision is blurred, but there is nothing to see. The streets are virtually empty, and my friends and family are lifeless; sitting, standing or even walking, but with n... read more
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February 11, 2011
I can easily say tat Eraserhead is one of the most fascinating science fiction movies ever made and certainly the most obtrusively bizarre. David Lynch gives a future to us that no one in their right mind would want to live in, being a warped 50s vision of a nuclear holocaust. It... read more
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January 29, 2011
Plays out like a really bad dream, and I mean that in a really good way.
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January 21, 2011
Many of my friends who had never seen Eraserhead before I practically forced them to watch it, still do not understand what I find so damn compelling about it. The truth is, I don't know either but I do know this - it is one of the most hauntingly original pieces of cinema that I... read more
Critic Reviews
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. Full Review
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. Full Review
What a masterpiece of texture, a feat of artisanal attention, an ingenious assemblage of damp, dust, rock, wood, hair, flesh, metal, ooze. Full Review
It represented a monumental shift in how movies are seen and digested -- one that raised the level of aptitude and film literacy throughout the world.
As pure cinema, Eraserhead is in a universe all its own, writing and obeying its own oblique rules. Full Review
Time drips like old paint in Lynch's surreal experiment, that revels in all things upsetting, disorienting, dark, and mysterious. Full Review
David Lynch's remarkable first film, made in 1976, still looks like a minor masterpiece, mixing Gothic horror, surrealism and darkly expressionist mise-en-scène. Full Review
David Lynch has "cleaned up" his freaky feature debut, but don't worry - it's still an amazing industrial nightmare. Full Review
David Lynch's 1977 feature debut Eraserhead is one of those rare films that really deserves its cult status - a nightmarish, heavily symbolic story set in a postapocalyptic future. Full Review
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