‘Where your nightmares end…’
Eraserhead is a 1977 surrealist film about a young man trying to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newborn mutant child.
The movie was the first film by David Lynch, who wrote, produced and directed.
Lynch began working on the film at the AFI Conservatory, which gave him $10,000 to make the film after he had begun working there following his 1971 move to Los Angeles. The budget was not sufficient to complete the film and, as a result, Lynch worked on Eraserhead intermittently, using money from odd jobs and from friends and family until its 1977 release.
Eraserhead polarised and baffled many critics and filmgoers, but has become a cult classic. In 2004, the film was deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. Lynch has called it a “dream of dark and troubling things” and his “most spiritual movie.”
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Eraserhead parody music video by Steve Toner for the Half Man, Half Biscuit song ‘Restless Legs’:
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