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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 sensitive young man as he struggles to cope with impending parenthood. Henry Spencer (Jack Nance) lives in a hopeless industrial landscape, lusting after the beautiful woman who lives in the apartment across the hall. After his girlfriend, Mary (Charlotte Stewart), informs him of her pregnancy, he is forced to eat dinner with her extremely odd family. The baby is eventually born, only it isn't a human baby at all; it's a deformed creature that resembles a lizard. The baby won't stop crying, a horrifyingly piercing wail that drives Mary insane. Left alone with the baby, Henry is serenaded by a woman who lives inside his radiator, and soon he decides to murder his baby in order to stop the nightmare once and for all. Five years in the making, ERASERHEAD contains all of the trademark attributes of a Lynch film--haunting visuals, an ethereal score, unsettling sound design, and, most notably, a black sense of humour--creating a world onscreen that is exhilarating, terrifying, and unique.Product Identifiers
ProducerDavid Lynch
EAN5706152399201
eBay Product ID (ePID)70594731
Product Key Features
ActorLaurel Near, Jeanne Bates, Allen Joseph, John Nance, Charlotte Stewart
Film/TV TitleEraserhead
DirectorDavid Lynch
LanguageEnglish
Run Time85 Mins
Aspect Ratio1.85 Wide Screen
Release Year2008
FormatDVD
FeaturesBlack & White, Widescreen, David Lynch Interview\Trailer
GenreHorror/Occult, General
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate18
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
ComposerFats Waller, David Lynch, Peter Ivers
ReviewsVillage Voice - What a masterpiece of texture, a feat of artisanal attention, an ingenious assemblage of damp, dust, rock, wood, hair, flesh, metal, ooze, Empire - This is a classic, no matter how comfortable it is to watch, Time Out - Lynch's remarkable first feature is a true original, New York Post - 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
ScreenwriterDavid Lynch
Art DirectorDavid Lynch
CinematographerHerbert Cardwell
Sound sourceDolby Digital Stereo 2.0
EditorDavid Lynch
Movie/TV TitleEraserhead
Director of PhotographyFrederick Elmes