My first Korine film, for better or worse. I found the first ten minutes a relentlessly frustrating experience with nothing resembling a coherent style, nor even a NATURAL BORN KILLERS collage of incoherence. Eventually, it settles in to its hazy abandon, and reveals its essential formal structure: to use repetition to the point of tedium to reveal the underlying tedium of repetition inherent in its subject. Which I sort of respect but: tedium. There's a moment halfway through where it…

But having rated it five stars, I'm not sure if I ever want to do this to myself again. It was my first time in the theater, and I forgot that on my previous viewing at home I paused a couple times (toilet break, water). In the theater, there is no escape, and I seriously contemplated fleeing a couple times, just because I found the film so effectively anxiety-inducing.

ERASERHEAD is a miracle of sound design, of no-budget imagination, of…

A lot of negative reviewers seem to take on the very motives of the filmmaker, etc, so let me say that I'm quite impressed by the willingness to make a somewhat unconventional indie film that would have been fucking grueling to make - no sitting around apartments and having conversations for 90 minutes here.

That said, man did I really not like this. It ticks a lot of my pet peeve boxes: sloppy handheld camera, over-emphatic scoring, people yelling at…