Fresh
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.
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
Eraserhead
Where your nightmares end...
1977 · 1h 29m · Not Rated
Horror, Science Fiction
Directed by
David Lynch
Overview
First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
Director and cast
- David Lynch Director
- Jack Nance as Henry Spencer
- Charlotte Stewart as Mary X
- Allen Joseph as Mr. X
- Jeanne Bates as Mrs. X
- Judith Roberts as Beautiful Girl Across the Hall
- Laurel Near as Lady in the Radiator
- V. Phipps-Wilson as Landlady (Long Version)
- Jack Fisk as Man in the Planet
- Jean Lange as Grandmother
- Thomas Coulson as The Boy
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
87%
Tomatometer
Rotten
A murkily pretentious shocker.
Tom Buckley, New York Times
Rotten
The mind boggles to learn that Lynch labored on this pic for five years.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
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.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
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.
V.A. Musetto, New York Post
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