MPAA Rating: NR
Director: David Lynch
Starring: Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph, Jeanne Bates
"Eraserhead" Video
"Eraserhead is an American film, but it's a little bit in an in-between place. It's like a dirty, little, forgotten, hidden corner. And I love those areas. You can discover secrets." —David Lynch
It took Lynch, a former art student, five years to make Eraserhead, a curious blend of Kafkesque horror and Orwellian nightmare. Jack Nance portrays total loser Henry Spencer (a couple of years ago, I read that Nance was murdered during a fight at a donut shop). "Poor old Henry, dead and gone, left us here to sing his song . . ."
After viewing this film, you'll know who served as the inspiration for fight promoter Don King's unique hairstyle. Lynch once revealed in an interview that he had a chocolate shake at Bob's Big Boy at 2:30 PM every day for seven years: "Two-thirty is Bob's time . . . I can think there and draw on napkins and have my shake. Sometimes I have a cup of coffee and sometimes I have a small Coke. They both go great with shakes."
Anonymous - 2008-10-27 17:31:21
Piece of Shit Movie Some cocksucker that thinks that can call a black and white and horrible rectum made acting a 7th Art... !!
Anonymous - 2008-11-01 15:19:58
Genuinely disturbing, consistently dark, mysterious and unforgettable, this movie will not sit well with you, whether you love it or hate it, it leaves the mind with more question than answers. Set in a world of truly strange and bizarre events that disconnect from reality making you unsure what is real and what is just a dream or set in the mind of Henry Spencer, a disturbed individual who will forever be plagued by his world, imagined or not. I recommend this movie to everyone, though odds are, you will not enjoy the film. Eraserhead is one movie I will never forget.
Dave DuBose - 2009-03-06 15:42:15
Watching this movie made me think of Tim Burton. Great for people who love watching things out of the ordinary.
DoctorBlack - 2009-05-20 22:40:52
I seen this movie 3 times and every time I see it I see the meaning of the film further while others see this film and see David Lynch as an idiot. I can't believe that people said that because this movie is very symbolic and has meaning if you want a film that you can watch leisurely don't watch. Watch your action films not a symbolic movie.
A.I.Guziel - 2009-07-15 14:16:26
Growing up in the midwest of Michigan, I have a perspective on Lynch's films that I can identify with. From the Grandmother, Eraserhead, The Elephant Man and Blue velvet all have characteristics of people I have known. What this particular film means to me is the strict religious past fighting with the liberalism emerging in the last quarter of the 20th century. The sexual awakening is shown as a horror and the baby is a monster, a fetus crying for help in a world of machines, emotion is forbidden and life is death, dreary oppression of poverty. The afterworld is represented in the angel that lives in the radiator, she sings a song about real living comes when we die. The end of the movie is a treatise on anti-abortion with fetus's being crushed. So this is my review I wrote in about 5 min. for Eraserhead.