Eraserhead

Now I understand why it is a cult movie, I love this kind of movies where you have to spin your brain to discover the message of it.
I love how it represents the fear that fatherhood generates in the protagonist and how his subconscious deals with it.

This black-and-white, overcast film is irrepressibly unsettling and immerses the viewer in a visual experience that is almost like peering into the mind of a madman. David Lynch's crazy visual universe began here and reached its climax with "Mulholland Drive". It is a film that transcends the categories of mere avant-garde and surrealist cinema, and is a film of overwhelming experimentation, dinners that abnormal psychologists and psychopathologists are in hot pursuit of, and eerie images that look like a psychological test created by a psychiatrist as a desperate measure for the sake of untreatable mental patients. Even ten years after my first viewing, the eerie images stick in my mind like mold. It is David Lynch's masterpiece and perhaps one of the most important films made since the 1970s.

One of the best films I've ever watched. Every time I see it I see new things. This one always stays with me. Also, this is the first and only movie I own on 4K. I don't even have a 4K TV but the Criterion collection blu-ray (which was restored with the help of David Lynch himself) was worth saving up for. (Yes I am broke haha) I am no good at reviews.

“Eraserhead” is one of those symbolic movies, more like a collection of unsettling moving paintings. It’s Lynch's only feature film to be old-school surrealist, though the way reality is distorted could be considered as expressionist.

There are sequences that could be interpreted in multiple ways, but the main plot is pretty straightforward. Not that the plot is the main focus here: most situations seem to be visually unsettling just for their own sake. The dark and eerie atmosphere that permeates the whole film is disturbing but at the same so fascinating that it gets addictive over time. You don't exactly know why, but you want to go back and rewatch it every now and then just to feel those weird sensations again, like a haunted house. Every shot has been meticulously constructed with the aim of deeply resonate with your subconscious and awaken feelings or sensations that are hard to express logically.

Sound plays a crucial role as well: there is no music at all, extremely limited and uncanny dialogues, but a lot of humming and wheezing mechanical noise which melds perfectly with the cold, hostile wastelands and bare, wretched houses and apartments.

That baby is probably one of the most disturbing I have seen in a movie. I still wonder how they managed to make something like that on their own.

David Lynch you are a genius.

Never before have I seen a movie that disturbed me, grossed me out and left me confused, but for some reason I can't stop thinking about it. Eraserhead is both shocking and unique, as this movie drives into the mind of a man who's having a crisis rising a child that he never asked for. What David Lynch is so good at doing is making he's movies feel like a nightmare or a dream, just by how it's directed and shot creates the effect perfectly, and Eraserhead is the icing on that cake.

Watched the movie twice already and after thinking about it, Eraserhead is a work of art.

The first thing I thought when I went into the film was that it was an imitation of Ingmar Bergman's cinema: A noisy silence, the expressionism use typical of European cinema (for example, "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari"). However, this is not the case. It is a unique film of its own, with a totally terrifying dystopian setting. The sets are dingy, dark, and set in some gnawed and sick 1920s.

The story, in a nutshell, deals with the delusions of a man upon learning that he is the father of a "worm" son. A Kafkaesque story.

For me, although I may not have understood the film, or the nightmares of the protagonist, I am totally enraptured by the aesthetics of the film.

10/10symbolism, visuals, sound
Creepy, eery, cozy and natury sounds sprinkled out perfectly
Incredibly unique and brave artistic visuals
Simple but impactful story no doubt
10/10 risk and payed off

Probably one of the weirdest & most surreal films that I've seen, but still one of the best.

I get the people who are like ‘what did that even mean’ because there’s certainly still parts more abstract than others, but it does feel clearly to me a fear of parenthood and mundane, oppressive life in a suffocating city. I think in many ways it’s a ‘typical’ early director self insert movie of navigating life but through the lens of Lynch and his sensibility and abstraction and that’s what trips people up. That’s not to diminish the movie at all but really praise for Lynch for being able to at this stage already make that conceit so distinct and so uniquely him and focusing more on the subconscious feeling of it all than the literal reality. In Heaven is a stunning musical piece, the baby is still a startling and horrific piece of effect work to this very day, and I love the truly dreamlike atmosphere and visuals. The radiator lady shifting back into the dark and her shaded visual silhouette, or the door swinging a beat too late after Bill arrives, just to name a few standout moments. Lynch arrived on the scene with his first full length feature boasting a vision and unique sensibility many filmmakers go their whole careers trying to achieve.