Eraserhead (1977)

Eraserhead: Directed by David Lynch. With Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph, Jeanne Bates. Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.

“A surprising number of reviewers here howl at length about how bored they were by this movie. No surprise. I doubt David Lynch intended to entertain the viewer of Eraserhead. He intended to invoke a response, to be sure, but amusement was not it. There is not a single word nor phrase I can use to convey the response this movie brought out in me. Fascinated depression, appalled sympathy, and an ever present feeling of gratitude that although I was present in this bleak, inhuman, industrial, possibly toxic world, it was just a dream and I would be away from it eventually, unlike Henry Nance.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe events draw you along in morbid curiosity as Henry goes about his business, fate not being very kind to him at any particular point. The pacing is slow enough that one has time to muse on the meaning of what transpires while the dank grim surroundings press down on oneself as they do on Henry.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eShould be watched in the evening with darkened lights. It is a trip, if you are willing to take it.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThose who are bored should not watch it. They should rent u0026#39;Rambou0026#39;, or perhaps u0026#39;Smokey and the Banditu0026#39;.”