- Actors: Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph, Jeanne Bates, Judith Anna Roberts
- Directors: David Lynch
- Format: PAL
- Language English
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: 18
- Studio: Universal
- DVD Release Date: 8 Jan 2001
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (64 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00004YVDJ
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 41,005 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Suspend disbelief - here comes David Lynch,
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This review is from: Eraserhead [DVD] (DVD)
The first time I saw Eraserhead I had heard neither of the film itself, nor of David Lynch, and had no idea what to expect. To put it mildly, I was seriously uneasy - not sickened as in gore-fests, shocked as in the he's-behind-you school, nor even spooked by the supernatural. No, what makes this film disturbing is that Lynch has plumbed the film directly into the viewer's psyche. You understand what you seen on the screen, but can't understand or relate to it directly. And don't expect explanations or loose ends to be tied!Weird is one word, but it goes much deeper - a trance-like dream state where inexplicable events occur at random intervals, with no obvious rational logic or emotional consistency. By taking away many of the trappings of conscious reality and leaving you in a stylised world akin to a Dali painting where normal objects don't necessarily appear in the expected context, nor to behave as you would hope. From the odd appearance of John Nance, through to the bizarre roast chicken and all peculiarities thereafter, Eraserhead succeeds in disorientating the viewer better than any film I've come across before or since. In hindsight, the heavy metaphors about parenthood seem more obvious, but no less disturbing for all that. Even comedy in this context (like the roast chicken) can have the opposite effect. You might laugh, but it's tension relief with a difference. The suspense notches up another gear in the process. As another reviewer says, this is still fresh today, and certainly an alternative to the bland production line that is Hollywood. Perhaps the Hollywood machine toned down Lynch's act (though in the light of Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks and suchlike, not by that much!), but first films have rarely been more startling. If you're a student of David Lynch, look here to see where his creative imagination was fired.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Surreal psycho-horror.... or a slice of everyday life?,
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This review is from: Eraserhead [DVD] (DVD)
Summarising Eraserhead's plot is fairly simple - a regular guy with a strange haircut living in a world with a lot of pipes fathers a curious limbless mutant/alien baby, and some stuff happens. Hm. Not the best way to approach this movie. It's David Lynch, remember. So...Eraserhead is a work of cinematic genius. Low-budget, yet the black and white cinematography is as crisp and expressionistic as anything from the 20s and 30s. The sound is dense and threatening. The overall look of the movie is noir horror; the psychological tone sheer barking paranoia. Eraserhead isn't so much a story as a set of vignettes from the life of a man stuck in a world he can't understand, struggling to understand the bizarre and arbitrary nature of life. It's almost inappropriate to discuss matters such as the quality of the performances or the nature of the plot - what Eraserhead is about is the creation of a disturbing, surreal, threatening atmosphere that leaves you just as trapped inside the movie as the cast are. Even the "escape" that seems visible in the world inside the radiator (don't ask...) is just as grim... A total masterpiece. And remember: In heaven...
22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
strangely compelling,
This review is from: Eraserhead [DVD] (DVD)
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.
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