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11/11/04
Eraserhead (1976)
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Reviews Counted:40
Fresh:36
Rotten:4
Average Rating:7.9/10
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.
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
US Box Office: $0
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... [More]
Starring: Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Jeanne Bates, Joseph Allen
Director: David Lynch
Reviews for Eraserhead
The mind boggles to learn that Lynch labored on this pic for five years.
09/25/07
Top CriticDisturbing, repulsive, hilarious, frightening, sensitive and challenging.
09/25/07
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
No review available.
07/27/04
...unwrap this baby and you will discover a whole universe of untold depths and hidden textures in which to become trapped, lost or sublimely elevated. Lynch's debut feature is freakish perfection.
09/03/08
Gets under your skin in ways that very few movies ever have.
01/29/03
No review available.
10/09/03
Nothing more than a pretentious, incoherent and boring exercise in self-indulgent weirdness.
09/02/06
Time drips like old paint in Lynch's surreal experiment, that revels in all things upsetting, disorienting, dark, and mysterious.
04/12/09
No review available.
08/08/02
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
...I found this imaginative work to be one of the more interesting films to come out of the '70s.
01/01/00
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.
09/12/08
Whether there is more here than meets the horrified eye, is debatable, but 'Eraserhead' leaves no viewer cold.
01/08/07
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.
06/14/03
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
Lynch's remarkable first feature is a true original.
01/26/06
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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