Eraserhead

In honour of our favourite unearthly force field David Lynch, we screen his first feature on the largest screen in the UK.

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  • Director

    David Lynch

  • With

    Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph

  • USA 1977. 89min

  • Digital 4K

  • Certificate

    15

Parenthood is a real horror in David Lynch’s extraordinary and singular feature debut.

When a young man discovers his girlfriend is pregnant, the responsibilities and pressures of fatherhood unfurl around him in spectacularly surreal fashion. A master of challenging content and form, David Lynch here created a radical, raw and wild first feature. Shot in striking black and white, with oppressive, industrial-landscape production design and equally unsettling sound design, Eraserhead is a unique and disturbing nightmare – Lynch at his most unfiltered.

David Lynch 20 Jan 1946 – Jan 15 2025
We thank you, Mr Lynch.