A Brief Examination of Eraserhead, the Scariest Movie in the History of Cinema to my Knowledge

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Now, are sufficiently traumatized?

Alrighty then, I, Mister Sinister, wish to go farther in-depth to the mind-rape of David Lynch's first feature film, Eraserhead.

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(The film poster is here, since I didn't want such a haunting image on my computer for fear of Computer-Trauma)

The movie is a seeming dream obsessed around a man named Henry Spencer, a printer who is "on vacation," who has recently become a father of...something. It looks more like a Xenomorph then a child and its body is wrapped in bandages. It cries constantly to the man's irritance.

Also he is scared of the mysterious and ominous, Man in the Planet, who seemingly controls his life. He is also lusted after by the nightmare-haunting "Lady in the Radiator," star of our original excursion into this insanity. Henry has a girlfriend (Mary X) who is the baby's mother. They are betrothed due to the child's early, early birth. Oddly enough, I've never seen a fetus that looked like that. Ever.

Amidst all this though, Henry seems to be having a nervous breakdown and constantly "visits" his neighbor, Beautiful Girl Across the Hall, whom he has "relations" with. The title comes from one of the almost comical scenes near the end of the film.

In it, Henry is standing on a balcony near a stage. He leans over & his head falls from his shoulders and onto a pool of blood onstage. He looks up and the "child's" head has replaced his own. His head falls into a street and breaks open and is found by a normal kid. The boy takes it to a factory, where an irritated boss and an irritating clerk say that Henry's brain is perfect for pencil erasers. The clerk sends eraser shaving off his desk.

The film ends more surreal than it began by (usual in a Surrealist view) dropping most of the plot after the climax and dragging you kicking and screaming into hell itself.
Henry finds out BGATH has been cheating on him with another man. Then, the "child" begins to laugh. A lot. Too much.
Henry becomes insane and enraged. He takes a pair of scissors and cuts open the bandages surrounding the child's torso/body, revealing a lot of internal organs. He stabs him in the lungs and we are treated to Hell's psychological fury. The child screams like E.T., its neck extends and then fades into a dark corner where Henry is attacked by its head which has become gigantic and emerged from the shadows to haunt our dreams forever. The lights explode and the electric sockets shoot electricity out of themselves. We see Henry embrace LITR and we see more Eraser Shaving. The scene drifts into white noise and scares me to death. I try not to think of it.

This movie has been said to inspire a number of Surrealist movies for decades and is held to be the most surreal of them all in my book.
The only thing I find funny about this whole thing is Henry Spencer's resemblance to Michael Richards/Cosmo Kramer.
The movie was actually very low budget and took about 6 years to make.
David Lynch has refused almost utterly that he will NOT tell us what the child (nicknamed Spike by the crew) is made of or from.

If you don't know who David Lynch is he is man who did such feats as:
Made us cry in Elephant Man
Made us feel awesome w/ Dune
Made us feel dirty w/ Blue Velvet
Created Twin Peaks
And utterly confused the hell of out of me w/ Mulholland Dr.

He also has created a somewhat scarier short group of films called the Rabbit series which I will not enter on. It would've been my choice of Scariest but it is on the internet mainly & not the cinema so this one stands out mainly. (I read into it and seemed to scary to watch for fear of life-stealing nightmares of horror and pain, making me regret my body's need for sleep and want to live like a Nightmare on Elm Street character, constantly trying to stay awake for fear of nightmares of a reincarnated Satan)
Sometimes his surrealism is entertaining but others are confusing or downright terrifying.
I will see you next with a personal favorite of mine, one of the most entertaining movie of all time in my opinion, Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs.

Thank you, That is all. Good Night.