Teringer An Exercise In Nonsense

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

jtychambers Watching this movie is not like watching a movie. It's like experiencing someone's dream first hand.

Rachmaninoff28 Here's my take on this incredibly disturbing delight of a film.The film is an aural and visual depiction of Henry's nightmarish mental struggle with the idea of abortion -- of "erasing" the mistake of his and Mary's baby. A few examples:The lady in the radiator represents abortion/an abortionist. The first time she appears, she's "cajolingly" standing on fetuses/sperm/babies (they're all the same in the symbolism of the film, I belive) while there's the sucking sound of the abortion procedure going on in the background. More evidence of that is that she's both repugnant and beautiful, like the idea of a abortion to Henry.More evidence is the scene in which Henry finally touches her. She's been "wooing" him throughout the film with the idea of an abortion with her sweet smile and her song about heaven, and when he finally touches her (accepts the idea of abortion) he's released from the dark, troubling place depicted so well in the film (worry, fear, guilt over the pregnancy) into pure light. Not only that, after he touches her/accepts the idea of an abortion, you hear the suction used in the abortion procedure once again, and see what looks like a fetus, umbilical cord and placenta being sucked away across the stage. BTW, I believe the little chickens are Mary's sexuality: They're tiny and underdeveloped, and when Henry sticks his phallic fork into one, it bleeds, like breaking the hymen. Mary's mum's reaction to the bleeding chicken and her announcement that Mary's had a baby straight afterwards make perfect sense, if that's the case. So does Henry's amazement that the baby's already at the hospital!If you agree with me, or anyone else, or not about what it all means, it doesn't really matter" This film succeeds in creating its own incredibly engaging "dream" world (emphasis on the word "dream" because that's precisely what the film is depicting: Henry's dream) even without a thought about what it might all mean. That's quite an achievement!

Dylan Dunmyer I would say that Eraserhead is a very well made movie. The wide, open shots are very nice, the use of lighting is good, the soundtrack is wonderfully chosen, it is overall a very well made movie.However, that does not mean that i consider this to be a good, or enjoyable movie. This film to me feels like someone got lost in the Twilight zone and i didn't have Rod Serling there to tell me why he was there, what was happening to him, or what the theme of the episode was suppose to be. This movie does not have any kind of plot or structure, it's more like an art house project that is suppose to be taking a look at what absurd means. But it fails to me as a film because it is trying so hard to be a absurd piece of art that it forgets to be a movie that one can really sit down and enjoy.I understand why this movie has its fans. As a piece of art, it could be considered to be genius, but to me, as a movie, it utterly fails.

Woodyanders Unlikable misfit factory worker Henry Spencer (a nicely deadpan portrayal by Jack Nance) lives in hellish squalor in a shabby apartment with his glum girlfriend Mary X (the pretty, but shrill Charlotte Stewart) and their grotesque constantly mewling mutant baby.With its jarring sound design, bleak industrial landscape, hypnotically gradual pace, funky old school practical special effects, and potently brooding gloom-doom mood fraught with dread, decay, and despair, David Lynch's debut full-length feature possesses a surreal nightmarish atmosphere that's uniquely its own singularly warped thing. Better still, the grim dream-like world presented herein proves to be so vivid, aberrant, and strangely convincing that once seen it's impossible to forget about. The interesting array of colorfully quirky secondary characters rates as another substantial asset: Allen Joseph as cranky plumber Mr. X, Laurel Near as a sweet and cheerful swollen-cheeked gal who lives in Harry's radiator, Jack Fisk as the badly scarred man in the planet, Judith Ann Robets as a seductive and predatory neighbor, Neil Moran as Henry's stern boss, and Darwin Joston as browbeaten desk clerk Paul. The striking black and white cinematography by Frederick Elmes and Herbert Cardwell offers a wondrous wealth of startling and bizarre visuals. A fascinating one-of-a-kind oddity.