Eraserhead

David Lynch’s inimitable, surreal classic still manages to shock, thanks to the originality of its maker’s vision.

  • Director

    David Lynch

  • With

    Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Laurel Near, Jeane Bates

  • USA 1977. 89min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    18

Henry and Mary live together, with their reptilian looking baby, in a claustrophobic apartment. It’s a world where nothing is quite what it seems and where anything could happen. Lynch’s hugely influential first feature is an utterly unique horror film. With its swirling, industrial soundscape, gloomy, doom-laden backdrop, and outlandish characters (including a noisy, mutant baby – the puppet in question), is a surreal classic and a film that deserves to be seen on the big screen.