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Eraserhead [1976]
starring: Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph, Jeanne Bates, Judith Anna Roberts
directed by: David Lynch

Used Price: £2.99
Collectible Price: £9.99

Audience Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0044005180039
Format: Black & White, Dolby, PAL, Surround Sound
Label: 4 Front Video
Manufacturer: 4 Front Video
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 4 Front Video
Release Date: April 12, 1999
Running Time: 85 minutes
Studio: 4 Front Video
Theatrical Release Date: January 01, 1977
Sales Rank: 2855

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Editorial Review:

Synopsis:
A very original horror movie in which a fuzzy-haired young man has a series of nightmarish experiences, among which is a scene where his head is reduced to the rubbers that fit on the ends of pencils...

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- The realm of REM
Why use a lot of words to describe a motion picture that visualizes the subconscious? Suffice it to say that this is still David Lynch's best. An oneiric odyssey, the sort of troubling, never-ending dream one can have when suffering from a high fever, in which the most bizarre and seemingly hopeless situations nearly drive one to despair. So far, I've never seen another film evoking that sort of atmosphere so well. Strange yet familiar. Archetypal. ERASERHEAD is a unique work of art, a milestone in cinema. Don't try to understand or explain this film, open up your mind and simply undergo it, visit the dream world while being awake. An exceptional experience.

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- Disturbing Horror
Henry (Jack Nance) lives in a grim apartment in a Hellish industrial nightmare. When his peculiar girlfriend gives birth to his mutant lizard baby, Henry struggles to cope with the responsibilities of fatherhood.

Eraserhead is, without doubt, the most disturbing film I have ever seen. It's like watching your most intense bad dream on film. David Lynch has translated absolute discomfort and fear so vividly into a film that I don't ever want to watch it again. It's a film that you can't really enjoy on any level but I think that it leaves such an impression that it truly is a piece of art. It repulsed me but I'd rather be repulsed than feel nothing. From the weird radiator woman to the live chicken dinner, I still have no idea ... Read More:

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- not to everyone's taste
Saw another review on here and just felt compelled to write.

I am not going to review the film as such - just comment on something that David Lynch has been consistenly able to do in just about every film I have ever watched of his (besides, perhaps, the lyrical and generally just downright pleasant "Straight Story").
Unnerving the viewer with the apparently trivial. Many people bandy about the phrase "surreal" without having a true idea of what it means. In fact, the "surrealist" movement in itself (it could be argued) became something of a parody of what it started out as. Take that lobster-as-telephone "work-of-art". It's nothing more than the ridiculous juxtaposition of two apparently incongruous objects. No more, no less. ... Read More:

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- Disturbing but thought provoking
First of all, let me say that Eraserhead is not a film for everyone. Many people will find themselves confused by the strange atmosphere, surreal imagery, and signature David Lynch sense of purposefully awkward pacing.

That out of the way, I would have to say that this is possibly one of my most personal favorite films. It is dark, tense, atmospheric, and filled with sounds and images that will send chills up your spine. It is a film that takes more than one viewing to truly begin to comprehend, but is quite a ride nontheless. There are moments in this movie that will literally scare you, so much so that one could almost call this eerie surreal art-film a deconstructed domestic horror movie. This film, along with the original black and ... Read More:

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- Brilliantly Weird
I remember watching this film about 15 years ago in which various images of the baby etc were seared into my subconsious. Watching it again recently it pulls you into a dark and disturbing place which takes a while to leave your system. A nightmarish film which you should watch not just because it is strange but at a different level teases your mind into various perceptions of reality. A film that shows an extreme of human abstract thought coupled with a dream-like reality. It seems to be an insight into madness. You must see this film at least once in your life. For me it will be every 15 - 20 years.

VHS : Eraserhead [1976]