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What viewers say

TvTrav3ler · 5/10

I can appreciate the cinematography, the score, and a big ball of weird being left up for a whole lotta interpretation. But I found this film to be more frustrating than entertaining. I finally decided to check Eraserhead out after seeing it at the tippy top of a bunch of lists and receiving recommendations from friends. In the end, I just wasn’t as satisfied as so many other viewers were.

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benoliver999 · 8/10

David Lynch started his career as he meant to continue, with this disturbing surrealist tale of a man who discovers he is to be the father of a grossly disfigured child. As he and his new wife care for it, they slowly descend into madness. Eraserhead quickly sucks the viewer into its drab industrial dystopia with some of the most ominous, chilling sound design work ever put to film. A low hum throbs through the whole picture, it’s uneasy and…

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manicure · 9/10

“Eraserhead” is one of those symbolic movies, more like a collection of unsettling moving paintings. It’s Lynch's only feature film to be old-school surrealist, though the way reality is distorted could be considered as expressionist. There are sequences that could be interpreted in multiple ways, but the main plot is pretty straightforward. Not that the plot is the main focus here: most situations seem to be visually unsettling just for their…

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Bradym03 · 9/10

David Lynch you are a genius. Never before have I seen a movie that disturbed me, grossed me out and left me confused, but for some reason I can't stop thinking about it. Eraserhead is both shocking and unique, as this movie drives into the mind of a man who's having a crisis rising a child that he never asked for. What David Lynch is so good at doing is making he's movies feel like a nightmare or a dream, just by how it's directed and shot…

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raingod

Easerhead appears on many lists as a “too see movie”, but I have to say it’s terrible. I’m sorry, but just because it’s David Lynch’s first movie doesn’t mean you have to like it. I couldn’t get past the first 20 minutes of this movie. It has all the traits of being a student film but somehow appears as one of the best sci-fi movies on many lists. Sorry but it’s terrible. There’s no amount of weed which would make this a great experience.

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Jaitower · 9/10

The first thing I thought when I went into the film was that it was an imitation of Ingmar Bergman's cinema: A noisy silence, the expressionism use typical of European cinema (for example, "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari"). However, this is not the case. It is a unique film of its own, with a totally terrifying dystopian setting. The sets are dingy, dark, and set in some gnawed and sick 1920s. The story, in a nutshell, deals with the delusions of a…

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nmahoney416 · 6/10

Slow, creepy, doesn’t make sense, little dialogue and makes me feel uncomfortable after it’s over. Yup this is a David Lynch movie. Not sure if I like this one or not.

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zephir · 7/10

David Lynch's movies are not easy to review, in fact I think words can not describe Surrealist "movies" generally speaking. Yeah I put that by purpose in brackets because they are not like ordinary movies where you expect a clear storyline, character development, an appropriate soundtrack and so on, but here you really have to feel them and be in the correct mood, have enough concentration and be open minded and patient. You can ask ten people…

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