89 mins - United States 1977 Director: David Lynch Starring: Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart and Allen Joseph Made independently over a five-year period, ERASERHEAD introduced the world to the remarkable talents of David Lynch and is widely considered to be one of the ultimate midnight ‘cult’ movies. It follows Henry Spencer who lives in a squalid apartment with a strange girl and their monstrous baby…what the film is about beyond these details is anyone’s guess. A nightmare in black and white, ERASERHEAD is a surreal mixture of horror, fantasy and black comedy. “Beautiful and strange…a black-and-white nightmare of creeping horror and anxiety.” The Guardian
FROM THE MIND OF DAVID LYNCH On 15 January 2025, we lost David Lynch, one of the most original, singular and unique artists of American cinema and television in the last fifty years. Some of his most notable films include ERASERHEAD, BLUE VELVET and WILD AT HEART as well as of course the seminal TV series TWIN PEAKS. The term ‘Lynchian’ is used to describe something that has a dreamlike quality with an air of mystery or menace. His work
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