Eraserhead

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Summary: A haunting dream of dark and disturbing things...
Review: WHEN will they re-release this masterpiece on video and DVD? This film is purest Lynch. It isn't a movie, it's an experiance. David Lynch himself said that he didn't so much think of Eraserhead, than feel it. Never have I heard a more true statement. 'Eraserhead' is Atmosphere with a capital A, and contains some truly unnerving moments that come straight out of our darkest nightmares. David Lynch is a true artist. To watch Eraserhead is to be totally absorbed into another world; Henry and his bizarre hairdo; the gentle yet strangely disturbing Lady in the Radiator; and last but not least, the hideous 'Baby,' a truly grotesque little monster who is more terrifying than any other man-made creature in motion picture history. (Lynch has refused to say how he created the Baby....IF he made it, that is. CREEEEEEEEEEEEPYYYYY! ) There is an unrelenting sense of menace and fear throughout all the proceedings. Some may huff and dismiss 'Eraserhead' as an 'artsy-fartsy' flick intended for the smallest film cults. 'Eraserhead' is not cult; it's timeless. If only Lynch would create another film of this magnitude and purity. Maybe he still will.I look forward to the re-release of this ignored classic with great anticipation.

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Summary: THE BEST PICTURE BY ALL TIME
Review: This is a kind of film that many people don't want to watch, but i think that it's only because it is so strange to make them fear! I never see some like that! And Lynch never did a thing like that ( sic!). Watch it! watch it watch it! If you love art and great cinema!

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Summary: One of the greatest movies ever made
Review: This is the kind of movie that is almost impossible to describe so, I won't even try. I've seen it about 100 times and I still have trouble explaining it to people who havn't seen it. It's one of my favorite movies. The friends I have loaned it to either love it or give it back to me and say, "What the hell is wrong with you? How can you tell me this movie is so great? It was the worst movie I've ever seen." Some have suggested I need psychiatric help for loving this movie. Either you will love this movie or you will hate it. The basic story is this: Henry lives a horribly depressing life in a world that is like a continuously oppressive nightmare. His girlfriend suddenly comes back into his life to let him know she had their "baby" while they were seperated. The scenery, the images, the sound effects and the general atmosphere of the movie have to be seen to be appreciated and the "baby" is every expectant parent's worse nightmare. That's about all I can say to decribe this movie. As I said, you will either love or hate this movie. I recommend you try your best to get a copy of Eraserhead to see which one it will be.

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Summary: A Symbolic Feast
Review: This is one of the most haunting and beautifully made movies I think that's ever been made. The story and the symbols continue on and on and never seem to tire of new interpretations. Henry is haunted by his own problems and contemplates the most ultimate of self-destructive behaviour. I think this movie deserves a premier place in cinematic history as the most visually and symbolically rich film of the latter half of the 20th century. It's a masterpiece that I believe is duplicated in Lynch's recent movie Lost Highway. LH is essentially a re-make of Eraserhead but obviously murder, in Lynch's eyes, doesn't quite capture the depression and horror of suicide. Both movies take place within the mind of the main characters. In the end Eraserhead is by far the better movie and the better story because it was ground breaking. You can't rate this movie on the scale provided. It surpasses the scale for sure.

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Summary: GREAT FILM BY ANY CRITERIA.
Review: This is not a strange movie, if you watch it with that in mind you won't see it for what it is: a smart, funny, satyrical, complex, disturbing, and beautiful masterpiece. Lynch spent five years of his life on ERASERHEAD, which might be why it is one of the greatest films in cinema history.

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Summary: Brilliant
Review: David Lynch's debut is definitely something everyone should see, are they interested in artistic cinema. "A dream of dark and troubling things", as Lynch describes it, it is indeed written and filmed with the logic and coherence of a nightmare - and when you're through dreaming, you start wondering what it all really meant.

Like Andrei Tarkovsky often did, Lynch deliberately tells us as very little of what's actually going on, and it makes it much more interesting than most films; the audience gets to construct a whole out of the pieces and is allowed to think further, beyond what's actually said, and that's what makes artist and audience into equals in the interpretation of the film.

Whether you're interested in art film, cult film or horror, you must pick this up. Not for everyone, though.

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Summary: Bizarre and brilliant
Review: David Lynch's first movie is by far the weirdest movie ever made. But if you can watch it without going mad, you will discover that there is alot of metaphors and symbols that make the movie more fascinating and fun with every time you watch it. Its far scarier than any typical horror movie because it messes with your mind and it plays on your imagination. It also lulls you into a state of pure shock when you begin to feel the whole movie is a nightmare of yours. This movie is filled with wonderful imagery, beautiful cinematography and also appeals to the cult-filmgoer. Watch it and love it.

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Summary: Weird, but thought provoking
Review: This is quite possibly the strangest movie I have ever seen, however, its also David Lynch's first movie, so its justified. The movie is about how Nance and Stewart have a deformed chicken creature-like baby that just screaches all of the time. The scenes with the baby are very disturbing, and eerie. Nance is also visited, intermitantly, by an angel like women who lives in his radiator! He also has several dreams within dreams. Thats the movie's plot, yeah I know its weird, but altogether its a good movie, although impossible to follow. It can only be enjoyed as a Lynchian vision of an over-industrialised society and what the effects of that lifestyle have on us all. Well worth viewing, but keep an open mind.

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Summary: Strange
Review: This is without a doubt the strangest movie I have ever seen. It has no violence, no bad language, and very little sex, yet it is probably the most disturbing movie I have ever seen. It is done in black and white and is almost a silent movie. This makes no sense what so ever. I guess it is good in the fact that it makes you feel different and it disturbs you. Get it, you will think different of movies.

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Summary: Eraserhead: A Pencil Has to Be Made From Something
Review: This was a strange--yet good--David Lynch film to view. Not only does the low exposure B&W film make it all the more foreboding and better, but the visuals--such as Henry's infant child--add to the overall mystery of the film. A little hard to follow here and there, but if you start looking over what your mind recorded when you watched it, thousands of conclusions can be formed. Overall, a great David Lynch film. Buy it, rent it, JUST PLAIN WATCH ERASERHEAD. --Matt Fore [e-mail]