First time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child. David Lynch arrived on the scene in 1977, almost like a mystical UFO gracing the landscape of LA with its enigmatic radiance. His inaugural work, "Eraserhead" (1977), stood out as a cinematic anomaly, painting a surreal narrative of a young man navigating a dystopian, industrialized America, grappling not only with his tumultuous home life but also contending with an irate girlfriend and a mutant child.
Stars: Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph, Jeanne Bates, Judith Roberts, Laurel Near
Crew: David Lynch (Art Direction), David Lynch (Producer), David Lynch (Editor), Herbert Cardwell (Director of Photography), David Lynch (Screenplay), David Lynch (Production Design)
Country: United States of America
Language: English
Studio: AFI
Runtime: 89 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Feb 03, 1978
IMDb: 3.6
Keywords:baby, nightmare, mutant, claustrophobia, parents-in-law, pencil, surrealism, torture, parallel world