Eraserhead


Eraserhead is a 1977 American surrealist body horror film written and directed by filmmaker David Lynch. Shot in blackandwhite, Eraserhead is Lynchs first featurelength film, coming after several short works. The film was produced with the assistance of the American Film Institute AFI during the directors time studying there. Starring Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Jeanne Bates, Judith Anna Roberts, Laurel Near, and Jack Fisk, it tells the story of Henry Spencer Nance, who is left to care for his grossly deformed child in a desolate industrial landscape. Throughout the film, Spencer experiences dreams or hallucinations, featuring his child and the Lady in the Radiator Near.

The Man in the Planet Jack Fisk pulls levers in his home in space, while the head of Henry Spencer Jack Nance floats in the sky. A spermatozoonlike creature emerges from Spencers mouth, floating into the void. The Man In The Planet appears to control the creature with his levers, eventually making it fall into a pool of water.In an industrial cityscape, Spencer walks home with his groceries. He is stopped outside his apartment by the Beautiful Girl Across the Hall Judith Anna Roberts, who informs him that his girlfriend, Mary X Charlotte Stewart, has invited him to dinner with her family. Spencer leaves his groceries in his apartment, which is filled with piles of dirt and dead vegetation. That night, Spencer visits Xs home, conversing awkwardly with her mother Jeanne Bates. At the dinner table, he is asked to carve a chicken that Xs talkative father, Bill Allen Joseph has made the bird writhes on the plate and gushes blood. After dinner, Spencer is cornered by Xs mother, who tries to kiss him. She tells him that X has had his child and that the two must marry. X, however, is not sure if what she bore is a child. ........

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