Eraserhead

Parenthood is a real horror in David Lynch’s striking, utterly original and deeply unsettling feature debut.

  • Director

    David Lynch

  • With

    Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph

  • USA 1977. 89min

  • Digital 4K

  • Certificate

    18

A young man discovers his girlfriend is pregnant. The responsibilities and pressures of fatherhood soon unfurl around him in a spectacularly surreal fashion. A master of challenging content and form, Lynch’s first feature remained arguably his most raw and wild. Shot in striking black and white, featuring unique, industrial-inspired production design and an ambient soundtrack, Eraserhead is unfiltered Lynch – utterly unique and unsettling.

Kimberley Sheehan

See more screenings of Eraserhead at BFI Southbank.