Eraserhead

1977 Directed by David Lynch

In Heaven, Everything Is Fine.

Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.

Jack Nance Charlotte Stewart Allen Joseph Jeanne Bates Judith Roberts Laurel Near T. Max Graham Jennifer Chambers Lynch Hal Landon Jr. Jean Lange Darwin Joston

Alternative Titles

Cabeza borradora, Labyrinth Man, Голова-гумка

fantasy horror

89 mins More details at IMDb TMDb Report this film

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Review by Wes ★★★★ 5

david lynchs kids: aw you made a movie about what its like to be a dad?? can we see it?
david lynch: ....um
Review by Lynchead ★★★★★ 20

Funny how this film doesn't seem disturbing until you describe it to those who haven't seen it.
Review by maria ★★★★ 11

fuck them kids
Review by Stevie 🚀 ★★★★★ 8

I have a big poster of this hanging in my dorm room and one time a boy from tinder came over and looked at it for a while and said "is that Niall Horan?"
Review by nathaxnne (hiatus due to injury) ★★★★½ 8

Marrying early silent film comedy with gnostic body horror, Eraserhead is the sort of movie experience which everyone can probably relate to, even when they wish they could not. If you have been uncomfortable going over to your romantic partner's parents' house for dinner, if you dread the long walk home from the pencil factory, if you feel weird interacting with the neighbor across the hall with whom you would like to have or have had amorous intrigue with, if you would like to escape into the calming sounds emitted by the radiator, if you have just picked the new baby up from the hospital and don't know what to do now that it is really home and sitting on…
Review by Cinema Strikes Back 20

Ja, da hab ich Eraserhead wohl endlich geschaut.
- Jonas
Review by brat pitt ★★★½ 4

fucked up if true
Review by katie ★★★★ 5

david lynch, WHAT THE FUCK
Review by Nicole Kubrick 🏳️‍🌈 ★★★★½ 7

I watched this movie on my small ass iPod Touch screen, the way David Lynch intended.
Review by 👽 Zara 👽 ★★★★★ 11

i love the baby so much, such a sweet, precious and pure little angel
Review by Karsten Runquist ★★★★ 6

We've all been there.
(In all seriousness this was my introduction to David Lynch and I have to say, definitely intrigued and excited to watch more of his stuff)
Review by Mike D'Angelo ★★★★★

94/100
[originally written on my blog]
A.V. Club review. So many superlatives. Best sound design ever. Best nightmare evocation of young adulthood ever. Most disturbing "character" of all motherfucking time EVER. (Presaged by the classic line "Mother, they're still not sure it is a baby," which I suspect is the first thought most new parents have if they see the kid straight out of the womb, before it's been cleaned up.) I had a vague memory of finding some of the surrealism willfully obscure, but this time was deeply affected even by things I can't necessarily "explain"—most notably the Lady In The Radiator, whose gigantic swollen cheeks still baffle me, but whose loving embrace of Henry in the final shot…

Recent reviews

Review by sarkey ★★★★

Real art and very unsettling
Review by Adam ★★★★★

im never having children
Review by JaredOT ★★★★★

The sound in this movie is incredible.
Review by HarryJames Clifford ★★★★★

God I can’t wait to be that grandma.
Bitches love eraserhead but hate mainstream movies, I’m bitches
Review by Joshua Beck ★★★★

Well... that just happened
Review by Calvin ★★★★★

Beautiful beautiful beautiful
Loved every second of it
It felt like a dream in the sense that the stuff on screen looked familiar but also completely foreign
Review by Maggie Paris ★★★★

Men are so annoyingly pathetic sometimes. I hated Henry the second he read his first line.
Also, my dog HATED this movie. He just side-eyed it the entire time and growled.
But so beautiful. Who tf comes up with a story like this? Amazing.
Review by Charles ★★★★

No doubt that anything I say adds nothing new to the complicated nature of this movie, but wow does Lynch craft something incredibly unique and wild in this one.
My first David Lynch adventure and certainly begs you to watch the rest. As beautiful as they come and the minimal dialogue let’s you inhale the movie from the start.
Review by paige

I think we could get the teen pregnancy rate down if we included this in the school curriculum
Review by diego ★★★★

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Review by jcordis ★★★★★

Still wondering how Lynch was still afraid of sex after he had a baby. Repressed King shit.
Review by Aidan Mcgehee

ok