Eraserhead

A Masterpiece of 70's Cinema....Eraserhead has been praised and condemned by audiences and critics alike.... ... Full Review

A Masterpiece of 70's Cinema....Eraserhead has been praised and condemned by audiences and critics alike....In fact, part of what makes Eraserhead so fascinating is its impenetrability, where the answers lie just out of reach..... ... Full Review

I think 'Eraserhead' is a piece of crap. If 'Eraserhead' is supposed to be 'Everyone's-Favorite-Cult-Film',I don't care. in the opening sequence of 'Eraserhead' is,in reality,a piece of poop. ... Full Review

It also amuses, in its own weird way, with scenes of preposterous, macabre comedy, among them a memorable family dinner involving a cooked bird that wiggles obscenely on its plate while it gushes forth a menacing dark liquid. Less a straight story than a surrealistic assemblage, "Eraserhead" brings together many of the now-familiar Lynchian visual themes and narrative figures, including the naïve man, the slatternly woman, the shabby period furniture, the contorted flesh and forms, the yawning orifices and ... Full Review

Eraserhead" concerns a couple's efforts to cope with their newborn - a repulsive cross between a cow's fetus and some sort of reptile, and blessed with a ravenous appetite and a habit of wailing all night. MoMA says it restored the 1977 classic "from the original film elements" given to the museum by Lynch, who had a hand in the work. ... Full Review

One of the most unusual and powerful American films ever made, David Lynch's Eraserhead (1977, www.davidlynch.com, $39.94) has finally been released on DVD in the USA --....but it's certainly not just weird for weird's sake..... ... Full Review

any film that has momentary lust leading to a death sentence is asking for a rational refutation.....can't rejoice in David Lynch, what is there to be happy about.... ... Full Review

At times darkly funnyHenry's dinner with Mary X and her equally bizarre parents is a comic nightmare Eraserhead is also a profoundly unsettling film that evokes visceral dread through its odd collision of banal dialogue and surrealistic imagery. DVD DETAILS Nattily dressed and smoking a cigarette, Lynch provides an eccentric and detailed account of Eraserhead 's genesis and production in the DVD special feature entitled "Stories," which features stills and film clips. ... Full Review

But Lynch tells Henry's story in warped, image-driven episodes rather than a traditional narrative, and it's these images and their inevitable, dream-like rhythms that make Eraserhead so extraordinary. The talent behind Eraserhead is that one truly surrealist presence in mainstream American film, David Lynch. ... Full Review

And like a dream, Eraserhead is best experienced alone, in the dark. Eraserhead isn't quite abstract -- there's a story of sorts, involving Henry (the late, great Jack Nance, sporting that immortal finger-in-the-socket hairdo), his spastic girlfriend, and their mutant baby -- but it isn't quite narrative either. ... Full Review