Eraserhead

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"For anybody of a given age or someone who is a real cinephile... You only need to hear... David Lynch. The first impression I had was tension, then I watched it again... it's nightmarish." David M. Brown.

"It's one of those things that can only be described as a lucid dream come to life. It takes a certain caliber of person to actually put out work like that. And it's not crazy.... It's Genius." Sarah Peterson.

"Definitely a brain Burner. It was definitely the weirdest movie I've watched. I can't describe this movie in words... It's not of this earth. I want to go sit in a corner in a dark place and think. This is not a movie.... It's beyond a movie." David Veerkamp

We believe that films should "make people happy" (euphoria). No, we believe it should. Of course, there were thorny issues in getting there. I used to say that "movies are the art version of pornography" if there was even a hint of sexuality, and in middle and high school I mainly watched "erotic" movies ("A Clockwork Orange" being the first of these). Looking back, I was a "foolish spectator." One day, however, a change came to me. I believe that an encounter with a movie can change your life, and the movie I encountered was "Mulholland Drive," which turned my view of movies upside down, saying, "I have never seen a movie like this. Until then, to my surprise, I had never even heard of David Lynch (I'm embarrassed to say ‼︎). From memory, between the ages of 12 and 13, I saw this surreal, showbiz-crazed entertainment at least a dozen times and was not only never bored, but drawn in. Isn't that amazing? I mean, "It was a 'monumental' movie in my life" (my strongest experience in a movie theater was when I saw "The Return of the King"). ...... So I had to see this film by a great filmmaker. In comparison, "Lost Highway" was an insignificant film. Honestly, I don't know, but it seemed to be well received by the public. However, this is a common phenomenon. A friend says, "This movie is interesting," so I take his opinion and watch it, only to find that it is actually not that interesting. Now it has become my "rule" and "motto" to "choose my own movies." Even 'Blue Velvet,' which is considered Lynch's best film, was really bad." What is so interesting about David Lynch?" I am often asked. It is difficult to answer this question. In fact, even if he had retired from the film industry after one film, "Mulholland Drive," David Lynch would still be revered as the king of surrealist cinema, but my "Lynch experience" ends there. However, it was "Eraserhead" that started my "Lynch experience" back to the classics, and that is where it should have ended. This cree...

Straight up: I don't like this movie. It is a grotesque, bizarre horror movie. There is no real plot. The only thing this movie will do is make you feel uncomfortable. It makes you feel like in a bizarre nightmare. And this it does really well. I give it 3 stars for the artistic creation that it is and the effect it can create on the audience. Disclaimer: I walked out of the cinema after 3/4 watching...

Score: 10/10 A Singular, Unshakeable Vision of Nightmare Cinema

Eraserhead is not a film you watch; it is a film you survive. It is a descent into a world that feels both alien and uncomfortably familiar—a surrealist nightmare that operates on dream logic, industrial dread, and the visceral terror of parenthood. David Lynch's feature debut is a landmark of avant-garde cinema, a work so singular and uncompromising that it defies comparison. It earns a perfect score not because it is "entertaining" in any traditional sense, but because it achieves exactly what it sets out to do: it gets under your skin and stays there forever.

The Atmosphere: A World of Industrial Horror

From its opening frame, Eraserhead announces itself as something wholly unique. The film's world is a grey, grimy, industrial wasteland—a landscape of hissing pipes, buzzing lights, and a constant, oppressive mechanical drone. The sound design, by Lynch and Alan Splet, is as much a character as any of the humans on screen. It is a masterclass in auditory unease, a relentless assault of ambient noise that feels like the planet itself is in pain.

The black-and-white cinematography is stark and beautiful, evoking German Expressionism and film noir while remaining entirely its own. The visual compositions are meticulous, every frame a painting of despair and alienation. The world Lynch creates is one where the ordinary rules of reality do not apply, yet everything feels horrifyingly literal. It is a nightmare, but it is a nightmare that makes perfect, terrible sense within its own internal logic.

Jack Nance: A Performance of Suffocating Intensity

Jack Nance was amazing in this role. There is no other way to say it. As Henry Spencer, Nance delivers a performance that is simultaneously expressionless and deeply expressive. His face—with its pale, gaunt features, his hair standing on end like a man perpetually electrocuted—is a mask of quiet, bewildered suffering. He moves through the film...