Eraserhead (1977)
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Critic Consensus: 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.
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Cast
as Henry Spencer
as Mary X
as Mr. X
as Mr. X
as Mrs. X
as Beautiful Girl Across the Hall
as Lady in the Radiator
as Landlady
as Man In The Planet
as Grandmother
as The Boy
as Bum
as Paul
as The Boss
as Pencil Machine Operator
as Little Girl
as Little Boy
as Person Digging in the Alley
as Person Digging in the Alley
as Man with Cigar
as Man Fighting
as Mr. Roundheels
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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.
A murkily pretentious shocker.
The mind boggles to learn that Lynch labored on this pic for five years.
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.
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.
What a masterpiece of texture, a feat of artisanal attention, an ingenious assemblage of damp, dust, rock, wood, hair, flesh, metal, ooze.
Audience Reviews for Eraserhead
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Oh, what an atmosphere!
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I just don't get it!
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Eraserhead Quotes
| Lady In Radiator: | "In Heaven, everthing is fine. In Heaven, everything is fine. You've got your good things. And I've got mine." |
| Lady In Radiator: | In Heaven, everthing is fine. In Heaven, everything is fine. You've got your good things. And I've got mine. |
| Lady In Radiator: | In Heaven, everything is fine. In Heaven, everything is fine. You've got your good things. And I've got mine. |
| Mrs. X: | So Henry, what do you do...? |
| Mrs. X: | So Henry, what do you do? |
| Henry Spencer: | Oh....I'm on vacation. |
| Henry Spencer: | Oh, I'm on vacation. |
| Mary X: | You wouldn't mind marrying me, would you Henry? |
| Henry Spencer: | Well... No. |