Product Description

Eraserhead is David Lynch's first full length feature film and was completed over a 5 year period between 1972 and 1976. His post-apocalyptic, dystopian, nightmare vision has amazed and disturbed audiences for over 30 years. In 2000 Lynch underwent the painstaking process of cleaning, restoring and remastered the film frame by frame in order to obtain the best image and sound quality possible. The result brings a brand new dimension to a 'cult classic' that will continue to astonish audiences and dumbfound critics. Extras include an exclusive 85 minute interview with David Lynch about the making of Eraserhead and the original trailer.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3219 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-10-20
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Formats: Black & White, Dolby, PAL, Widescreen
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 85 minutes

Synopsis
Director David Lynch's feature-film debut is a masterpiece of the macabre and grotesque. Reportedly a reaction to the news that he was about to become a father, Lynch's ERASERHEAD follows a sensitive young man as he struggles to cope with impending parenthood. Henry Spencer (Jack Nance) lives in a hopeless industrial landscape, lusting after the beautiful woman who lives in the apartment across the hall. After his girlfriend, Mary (Charlotte Stewart), informs him of her pregnancy, he is forced to eat dinner with her extremely odd family. The baby is eventually born, only it isn't a human baby at all; it's a deformed creature that resembles a lizard. The baby won't stop crying, a horrifyingly piercing wail that drives Mary insane. Left alone with the baby, Henry is serenaded by a woman who lives inside his radiator, and soon he decides to murder his baby in order to stop the nightmare once and for all. Five years in the making, ERASERHEAD contains all of the trademark attributes of a Lynch film--haunting visuals, an ethereal score, unsettling sound design, and, most notably, a black sense of humour--creating a world onscreen that is exhilarating, terrifying, and unique.

Customer Reviews

strangely compelling
I have not the slightest clue what this film is about, but oddly enough that doesn't really bother me. The best way I can describe it is like this: Eraserhead is like one of those really weird dreams you sometimes have which you can neither verbalise or rationalise, and which stays with you all day, and which affects you in ways you cannot quite explain.

Despite it being completely incomprehensible, I still think Eraserhead should be on everyone's "top films to see before you die" list. It is strangely compelling, while utterly baffling at the same time.

Unmissable
I agree completely with T Jones's one-star review: this film is genius! It is David Lynch's greatest film. He has created nothing like it since and you will find nothing like it elsewhere. Everything about this film is beautifully contrived (except possibly for the ending!), from the synthetic chickens to the premature 'baby' wrapped in bandages. Lynch has created a world with such wonderful precision, each moment, each reaction from the characters all working perfectly. A lot of time and thought went into creating this nightmarish film, a film where the cries of Henry's new infant penetrate the deep rumblings of a bleak and shadowy industrial city.

I do not agree with Brady Orme's use of Ballard's 'Rub the Human Face in Vomit' quote. Eraserhead is much more refined than this. It is not crude and it is ceratinly not crude only for the sake of shock.

If you like this film, you'll probably like Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo.

One of a Kind
LONG AWAITED and finally here. Before this EraserHead was, to many people, a rareity to own on dvd, but now we have a newly remastered edition with a couple of interesting extras to match, because what other film could u possibly want to find out more about than this one.
It is a known fact that 'Lynch refuses to tell anyone what the film is truly about, and that not a single person has figures it out as of yet. Also the mysterious and skillfully created 'baby' in the film was, after use, buried in an unknown location so no one could discover how it was made. This film really has been shrouded in mystery since its release, something you rarely see in a film.
EraserHead isn't just about watching a weird film that you'll never see anything like again, its about the experience the film gives you. While being branded as a horror in dvd isles and movie databases, this film is NOT a horror, or any particular film genre for that matter, possible avant garde (?!) The film has simply been known to terrify audiences with being so unpredictable, bizarre and with aid from the monstrous soundtrack, that consists of ambient crashes crunches sparks and screeches that defy any meaning of the word ambient, the film will surely stick with you for the rest of your life. Think of it maybe as a music video for the sound of a your face being scraped off against a blazing furnace in an echoey room.
The film does have a plot, although the plot is meerly a skeleton in which a film with unknown reason is built around, and this lack of knowlage into the film overwhelms any audiences need to understand where the films plot or characters are going. As if the film ran on plot, very little would happen.
An interesting thing i seem to see in this edition of the film is that, when i first watched Lynches masterpiece, EraserHead, the quality was bad and the film was dusty and worn....and i liked it! EraserHead, after watching it in this edition, i have to admit i prefer it in its old seedy, worn and torn version, i believe it all adds to the experience. With the remastered edition (and it is VERY well remastered) it seems too modern, as if it was made in black and white yesterday just to make it look like it looked origonally...
But it'll take more than a hindered experience to shunt the awesome power of EraserHead.
To anyone who collects films, its is blasphemous NOT to own this.
To anyone who simple hasn'y watched this film yet, do so immedietly, you wont forget it...