Eraserhead Reviews and Ratings



  • December 19, 2009
    This is the most terrifying film I've ever watched in my entire life. It was very kafkaesque. Everything was so surrealistic. The people were like broken machines, not human beings. So much fear was embedded into every action. I was terrified throughout the film. I'm afraid to go...( read more) to sleep now.
  • December 15, 2009
    This is the 1st film I ever saw by David Lynch and the film that started my love of his movies. I was completely and utterly mesmerised from start to finish. A real brain twister thats been flawlessly crafted in glorious black and white.
  • December 13, 2009
    This movie is bizarre, art-house nonsense. Very strange and boring.
  • December 7, 2009
    What is Eraserhead? Where did it come from? What does it mean? What madman could have created it? These utterly understandable questions are the first thing that entered my head right AFTER watching Eraserhead for the first time, at the tender age of eighteen. I had seen the myst...( read more)erious black-and-white box leering at me from video store shelves since behore I could remember, and I decided to put a story to the face- so often, the mystique of a classic book can be dissipated when you actually read it, and so far it'd been the same with movies for me too. Not anymore. This movie just refused to be understood in a conventional sense, defying all attempts at explanation or examination, and it bothered the hell out of me. Years have passed since that first unsatisfying viewing, and I like to think that my tastes have matured since then (my knowledge and appreciation of film have, at least), so I decided to give Eraserhead one more shot. I'm glad I did. Eraserhead is a movie that kind of grows on you; the second time through I was struck by the dream-like quality the whole thing had, how it is nearly impossible to tell someone what HAPPENS in the film as you're struck by the feelings and apprehensions it engenders in you without a definable, concrete story. It's literally like watching a dream unfolding before you- a strange and unsettling dream. (more to come)
  • December 5, 2009
    i like David Lynch but this movie was just pathetic
  • December 4, 2009

  • November 22, 2009
    =O que pelicula tan extraña!! sinceramente me costó un poco coger de qué iba al principio pero al final me figuré algo jaja pero es de las películas más extrañas e impactantes que he visto...el pelo del protagonista no tiene palabras jaja y la cara de la chica que canta ni te dig...( read more)o :S
  • November 18, 2009
    Well, I was prepared for it well enough that I didn't hate it as much as I could have, but I can't say that I liked it. It's easily the most messed-up movie I've ever seen, possibly of all time. I get that he's trying to challenge us by showing us something completely and totally...( read more) disturbing in as many ways as he can get away with on the grounds of it being art, and then putting the human form into it. I don't really have a lot of respect for movies that don't make any effort to make sense though. Really, I feel like it's one thing if you tell a story but leave a part out for the viewer to figure out, but another thing entirely if you intentionally make a movie that doesn't make sense and can't make sense so you leave it up to people to make up what they think happened, and then they go on the internet and assert that they're right and anyone who didn't reach their conclusion is an idiot. True to form, I found a guy on the internet right away raging about how brilliant and great this movie is. It's powerful and striking, and extreme, but that doesn't make it good. Anyway, very disturbing, definitely not for everyone (in fact, this movie is not for almost anyone), but just barely art, so it can get away with it.
  • November 17, 2009
    The most bizarre movie I think I've ever seen. David Lynch gives a future to us that no one in their right mind would want to live in. It's just a film experience like no other. I can't really compare it to any other movie because it's just so unique. Jack Nance is priceless, he ...( read more)gives the movie such an earnest personality that is part of the reason it is so amazing. From dead fetuses getting slammed against the wall to chickens cumming blood, it's never stale or dull. I think the fact that it is still untouched after all these is a true testament to the unique nature of the film.
  • November 15, 2009
    creepy and very disturbing.
  • November 15, 2009
    This is a must watch again and again.
  • November 13, 2009
    first major work by David Lynch and a true serreal classic .
  • November 11, 2009
    took a little too long to get to the point When it did you feel you'll need drugs to understand but all in all was a good mind Fu"* type of movie. Its totally in its own class type movie as far as im concerned. Could of went to things just a bit more to understand better.
  • November 7, 2009
    DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE, unless you're a BIG David Lynch fan. For those who remember your dreams this movie will be a frightening experience of the most potent psychedelic features in the darkest corners of your mind. For those with no recollection of your dreams this movie is a ...( read more)short reminder of what causes the cold sweats, setting your mind into a state of depressive consciousness. For those looking for answers, or reasoning behind your dreams, than the answer may lie here. Eraserhead is an emotionally frightening nightmare to say the least. It's a dream simply recorded on film, just as bleak and cold as any nightmare you may really have. It's a shattering, lonely, and sometimes repulsive exercise for our subconscious thinking. Before the creation of Eraserhead, David Lynch had a dream. This is what his dream was.

    I guess it's safe to say we all share at least one thing in common. If not for our personality, religion, or upbringing...than what about our dreams?

    Any interpretation of this film is correct. It relies on our own personal perceivability. What do our inner demons tell us? Is there life in fantasy, and does it really matter? Are there living, breating people, with a pulse and a heartbeat in our dream state? And when we wake up does someone, like our character Eraserhead, impatiently wait for us to return?

    This movie is weird, yes. But what dreams aren't? Believe what you will, and make sense of what you want. Eraserhead is a movie in a cold, and scary world. A dimension of improbable madness. A parallel universe of distortion and paranoia...but it's a world we might all share.

    It's a morbid, strangely beautiful, landscape of horror. It has the texture of death itself, but yet it's still very much alive. It's a work of pure genius.

    Dream while awake. Watch Eraserhead!

  • October 28, 2009
    Believe it or not, I´ve seen weirder films than this one! Enthralling, with a unique style and structure, but don´t ask me to explain what it´s all about.
  • October 23, 2009
    I can only assume that Lynch set out to make the most dismal, depressing, miserable and boring film that he could - and succeeded. A definite "marmite" movie.
  • October 22, 2009
    this film is timeless it has to be one of the movies to watch when you have the itch to watch a creepy weird movie
  • October 11, 2009
    Classic weirdness at its best....youll either love it or hate it....
  • October 11, 2009
    A completely weird and surrealist look at parasitism and the horrors of the industrial age.
  • October 9, 2009
    I knew what to expect when I watched this, so I didn't find it as shocking as most people do. A good description for this would be, a complete nightmare, awkward and almost unwatchable...One of the most bizarre movies ever. Very enjoyable to watch.
  • September 30, 2009
    Male paranoia can be a bit of a nightmare at times. Lynch's visual realisation of his own version of male paranoia through this surreal journey is cinema at its best. Only Lynch could make such a colourful film as this in black and white!
  • September 26, 2009
    This was some weird sh**! Ms J Bates had me on one! Do not watch this movie high, LOLs! Nah do that but I guarantee you will be weirded out!
  • September 25, 2009
    I am not a David Lynch fan, at all. But Eraserhead really accomplishes what it's for. The theme (male paranoia) is dissected in the most faithful way.

    The movie itself kind of drags along. The only thing that holds you to it is probably morbidity.
  • September 11, 2009
    Review coming someday...

    100/100
  • September 5, 2009
    Not a fan of Lynch at all!
  • September 5, 2009
    unlike anything before or since. david lynch really created something truly original and profoundly disturbing.
  • September 2, 2009
    No explanations, you need to see this movie to even attempt an understanding. I have seen it twice, and am still shocked.
  • September 1, 2009
    whoo..
    The movie where they took the name Eraserheads...
  • August 27, 2009
    I couldn't even stand to watch more than five minutes of this movie. I also think that 'movie' might be too strong a word for what this thing is.
  • August 26, 2009
    It's a good idea to live in someone else 's nightmare :) And our man Henry is not different then any others by his obsessions though !!
  • August 24, 2009
    David Lynch's first major film portrays the bizarre relationship of "Henry"[Jack Nance, who kept his hair in the same frizzy state for the entire five year shoot] and "Mary X"[Charlotte Stewart] when they are told they are the parents of a helpless, mewling, phallic-necked baby c...( read more)reature. Essentially about the horror of procreation, it's full of subliminally sexual, nightmarish images of tiny bleeding chickens, exploding womb sacs and Henry's slowly plummeting severed head. There are echoes of "Un Chien Andalou"[1929], as though Lynch had allowed that film's dark dreams to fester and mutate through Henry, the hysterical Mary, the bandaged fly-blown baby and the putty-faced Radiator Lady of Henry's imagination.
  • August 19, 2009
    El cine surreal es muchas veces mostrado como el arte de los sueños y, siendo este el caso, la única forma de describir a Eraserhead es como una pesadilla fílmica llevada al extremo.

    En esta historia, bizarra por decir poco, David Lynch utiliza elementos propios del c...( read more)ine Buñueliano (principalmente de Un Chien Andalou) para construir una atmósfera de tensión y ansiedad que lleva al espectador por distintas emociones y que desgarra las barreras de la estética en su clímax.

    Empezando con una escena alegórica a la concepción de su hijo, esta película nos muestra los miedos y frustraciones de Henry, un hombre que embaraza a su novia y dado el horripilante aspecto del prematuro "bebé" se ve en la necesidad de casarse con ella.
    Es durante el breve tiempo que viven juntos, que ella se harta de la criatura y decide irse a casa de sus padres, mientras que él busca en sus alucinaciones escapar de la realidad tratando de corregir el daño hecho.
    Durante una de estas alucinaciones, Henry fracasa en su intento de "borrar" sus acciones pasadas, por lo que su cerebro termina siendo justamente convertido en gomas de borrar.
    Una vez derrotado, y presa de la desesperación, Henry decide terminar con su situación con una escena que hace que el ojo cortado de Un Chien Andalou parezca obra de Disney.

    Sin ninguna duda, Eraserhead analiza la psicología detrás del hombre que, de un momento al otro, se ve envuelto en una responsabilidad tan grande que termina atormentándolo y que por más que intenta reescribir sus acciones solo consigue empeorar su problema.
    Todas las demás interpretaciones del espectador serán tan únicas y diveras como lo serían las mismas de un escrito de Kafka.

    Pese a tener problemas de sonido, el mood de la película es sustentado por una excelente fotografía en blanco y negro y cuidado durante toda la trama por una dirección tan personal como cuidada de David Lynch.
    Una película lenta pero nunca aburrida, impactante pero hermosa, simplemente una obra de arte que trasciende incluso a su autor.

    *****
  • August 16, 2009
    i don't know what to think or say about this film, i don't know if i should consider it as one of the most marvelous surrealistic masterpiece i've seen, or if i should consider it as nonsense, disgusting, disturbing, weird and confusing piece of garbage and give it half a star. <...( read more)br/>
    well i think i'll go for the first option, since i already know Lynch's style and work, and i know he's a puzzling director, and by that, everything has a meaning.
    i oughta see this again, and again, and again... the many times i may need, to solve the puzzle.
  • August 16, 2009
    Weird wild stuff. Not sure it amounts to much but certainly worth your time if you're a Lynch fan, or if you just like weird movies.
  • August 15, 2009
    Hands down the craziest shit I have ever seen. Makes Lynch's other movies look like they were directed by Frank Capra. Gave it 2 stars b/c I wouldn't put myself through it again. Dead cat in the DVD menu.
  • August 14, 2009
    Although impossible to understand, Eraserhead is fascinating, visually appealing, and eerie at the same time. Should be regarded as Lynch's best film, probably because it reflects his mysterious elements so well.
  • August 10, 2009
    David Lynch is WAY overrated.
  • August 3, 2009
    This has to be one of the most surreal movies i've ever seen.It has no real narrative and no structure,with some beautiful imagery married with an incredibly affective soundtrack that cranks up the atmosphere. Watch it on the biggest screen you can,and turn the volume right up.It...( read more)'s an original experience you wont forget in a hurry.
  • August 2, 2009
    Take from it what you will, words are beyond me.
  • July 20, 2009
    Haven't seen it in beaucoup years.
  • July 15, 2009
    Wow! Holy shit! What the fuck just happened?! was my response in that order.. you don't just see this movie once, that's all I have to say..and my opinion of it doesn't have a conclusion yet..wow...i'm just stunned.
  • July 12, 2009
    You could ask me what this movie is about, and I could give you at least six different answers. Saying this movie is "weird" is the understatement of the decade. You truly have to see this for yourself...and then see it again.
  • July 4, 2009
    Most disturbing 4-15
  • July 4, 2009
    surreal world !! i didn't understand a thing :)) i need to watch it again
  • July 2, 2009
    Creepy, weird, surreal, & solid. What a nightmare!
  • July 2, 2009
    WHAT THE HELL!?!? THAT BABY THING WILL GIVE ME NIGHTMARES FOR YEARS!!
  • July 1, 2009
    The only movie the more I watch it the more I want to watch it again.
    When I am watching it, nothing else exist. It is like a hypnosis, such a strange feeling that I cannot explain.
    Fascinating, amazing, so strange and beautiful.
    For his first movie, Mister Lynch made a timeless ...( read more)masterpiece (the first but not the last).
    For information, the first time I have seen it, I watched it 3 times in one go.

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