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interesting, how after more than 50 years that movie is still makes you lose your appetite and disappoints disabled kids
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Не зашлоо, мб зайдет кому нибудь такое, ну есть сцены мерзкие некоторые, но мя не особо впечатлило, однако если представить то ситуация страшная
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not necessarily enticing but it’s definitely made for people who stay for the magic of David Lynch’s mind. how he transforms a desolate industrial landscape into a claustrophobic cage by fear of parenthood and insanity is something only him can think of. For me, it’s a surreal interpretation of why abortion is really a healthcare. Luvvv u David Lynch
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Lynch aleays puts end to every “Normal” thinking. Definitely a horror movie whoever denies put that eraser up your #
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ironic that a film called Eraserhead centres around a man who clearly didn’t use a rubber
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I watched this movie on my small ass iPod Touch screen, the way David Lynch intended.
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I love when I show this movie to friends and they never talk to me again.
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Funny how this film doesn’t seem disturbing until you describe it to those who haven’t seen it.
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I have a big poster of this hanging in my dorm room and one time a boy from tinder came over and looked at it for a while and said “is that Niall Horan?”
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david lynchs kids: aw you made a movie about what its like to be a dad?? can we see it? david lynch: ….um
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Pardon? I’m too stupid for this dude, I think I was halfway there trying to get any semblance of meaning out of it then it just ended. But oh well, it just means I’m gonna be thinking about it for a week at least. I’m a big colors guy in cinema but black and white films are just so special. The shadows and contrast is beautiful and the monochrome enhances the the imagery in such a unique way. Speaking of…
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I’m sorry. What the fuck is going on? I get that it’s like a nightmare and after some research I do understand the deeper meanings behind some specific scenes and the oppressive sound design. But man it was boring to watch. I am not a fan of surrealism, and I know that is probably my sign to avoid David Lynch’s filmography, but I am on a mission to try and find a movie of his that I do like. So, to be quite frank, I did not enjoy this one.
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Euuuuh ouais Et sinon il a la coupe d’Evgeny Kissin c’est drôle
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this movie had one of the most deeply unsettling, otherworldly like atmospheres i’ve ever seen and combined with the nightmarish sound design, the movie felt like an hour and a half long inescapable nightmare. i feel like this was an extremely well done and smart approach, rather than using a traditional plot line and story. it supported the movies theme of the drowning pressure and anxieties of being thrusted into the responsibilities of fatherhood/adulthood very well and much better than traditional storytelling could. resembling the “inescapable nightmare” i said this movie feels like.
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langweilig musste 5 pausen machen fontaines dc lady in the radiator ahh es regt mich irgendwie auf dass der fast keine musik in seine filme packt
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durante todo o filme a única coisa que conseguia pensar era em como o david lynch é artista. o filme de lynch é sobretudo responsável por nos fazer sentir, não perde o tempo de sua obra tentando nos dar explicações verborrágicas sobre suas intenções, ou nos fazer entender a lógica minuciosa do seu universo. pelo contrário, o seu trunfo é a subjetividade de suas obras, o surrealismo de seus mundos que podem significar tudo, assim como podem não significar nada. você decide. e eu senti muito. nojo, desconforto, receio, medo. talvez seja sobre a paternidade, talvez não seja, vai saber.
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Oh my god, man. What a ride. On rewatch, it seems to me like the first time I watched this movie I didn’t pay any attention. I got completely sucked into the experience this time and, thinking back, I cannot understand how on earth this seemed boring to me. Having now read some of Kafka’s work, everything about this movie suddenly makes sense. The first time I watched it I felt completely dissapointed by the film’s lack of a “normal” structure; which led me to rate it a 2.5. But now, since I got used to dream-like and surrealist experiences, the movie felt completely different.
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I’d be willing to stare at you dead in the eye and tell you this is the best horror movie to ever exist and will never be topped. I’d be right
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I got flashbanged by a film
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I have finally arrived. It makes sense for Lynch’s inspirations to come through stronger in Eraserhead than in his later work, with Henry functioning essentially as a Chaplin insert dropped into an industrial hell. What really surprised me was just how strong Lynch’s style permeates throughout his filmography. The concept of something being Lynchian, which to make it easy, is a marriage of the uncanny and the banal — seems as if it was a phenomenon slowly built over a…
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Reminder to never watch this again
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There’s absolutely no doubt that this is one of the most important films ever released. It’s a dreamlike nightmare mixed with painfully real emotions. Henry’s fear of raising a baby reflects his anxiety about adulthood, parenthood, and possibly even his own self-consciousness. He tries to escape into fantasy rather than face reality, but running away solves nothing. When fear replaces compassion, responsibility becomes something monstrous and causes even greater suffering. David Lynch knew in advance what cinema is.
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Well that was quite a ride watching this film. I would say for me it was very deeply disturbingly unsettling watching this film from all of the scenes that I really could understand very quickly but that is David Lynch you just can’t understand everything by just straight watching his films and that’s the beauty of Eraserhead it’s a beautiful film by all of his gory vibes that it has. And that’s why I love David Lynch.
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Sorry to say this about such a seminal film, but ‘Eraserhead’ is honestly a bit of a curate’s egg. It’s obvious that the director/auteur is a genius. I don’t just mean that in hindsight, with knowledge of David Lynch’s incredible career. There are there are moments that take your breath away. The dialogue, what little there is of it, is perfect. The casting, especially for what is essentially a student film, is bang on the money. The set and prop…
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when u run out of medication
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LLeo Campos 8 月 23, 2026
no começo eu não entendi nada, e no final parecia que eu tava no começo
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In heaven everything is fine
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karadeniz sahil yolunda david lynch filmi izleyen ilk insan olmus muyumdur? bi bok anlamadim ama eminim cok iyi bi filmdir
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what the fuck
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you definitely should watch it if you like weird vibes… but it’s not my type of films
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This is horrible. The second half is just random bullshit put together. I decided to give Lynch another shot but never again. That man’s movies just don’t have plot as much as they want to. 0.5 a star extra because of the creative vision he had and the actually okay to good directory
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preemies do kind of look like that sometimes
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pojebany, obrzydliwy i absurdalny ale zajebiscie mi sie podobalo. z jednej strony czulam ciagly dyskomfort, a z drugiej strony industrialna atmosfera i klimat tego filmu wciagnal mnie do takiego stopnia ze realnie ogladalam z otwartym ryjem. wciągający, hipnotyzujacy a dzwieki maksymalnie potegujace niepokoj. mimo zerowego budzetu film wyglada swietnie. jack nance genialna rola. pod wzgledem wizualnym to cos niesamowitego. mimo ze jest powolny to realnie nie da sie oderwac wzroku od ekranu. absolutne arcydzielo kina surrealistycznego. film nie dla kazdego👍🏿
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Imao sam najniža moguća očekivanja jer sam znao u šta ulazim i da će mi verovatno biti pretenciozno, i sva su se ispunila. Eraserhead je jednostavno previše spor, monoton i bez dijaloga koji bi ga pokrenuli. Jasna mi je poruka i strah od roditeljstva u pozadini, ali je u samoj realizaciji i simbolici debelo preterao. Nemam bukvalno nijedan detalj da izdvojim koji me je držao pažljivim. Respektujem jedino to što mu je ovo debitantski film i što je stao iza…
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Ttuturmomo 8 月 23, 2026
Is there more performative maleness than watching this film as a midnight session in an open air theater in exarchia, Athens, while drinking beers and chainsmoking cigarettes?
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Do not make me go eraserhead baby mode >:((
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Why was everyone so mean to that poor innocent premature foal? Oh, it won’t stop crying? Have you tried, I don’t know, not leaving it in dirty bandages on a cold hard wooden table its entire life? Geez, some people should not be parents!
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o david lynch vive mesmo no mundinho dele. só pode ter perdido a cabeça
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Pai do ano 🥰
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an absolute nightmare! would LOVE to see this from the mothers perspective because that would be much more horrifying
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Crazy fucking debut. You just can’t replicate this vibe.
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the way parenthood is portrayed as a horrifying, life-ruining, unwanted, grotesque, insane, and impossible responsibility, all while still portraying the baby as something innocent that needs a level of love and care and patience that you simply can’t give…… i swear he scanned my brain and extracted my thoughts on having kids and distilled it into a weird ass movie
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Me sorprendió el sonido El chavito m hizo reír
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Aller hein
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HAHAHAHA weird as hell so off putting and unexplained i love it it’s so goofy but if you’re a stiff you wouldn’t get it
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Stop 😢 Laughing 😢 At 😢 Him 😢
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I won’t lie, I had to watch the last part in different areas ruining the suspense a little so this isn’t gonna be my full review. But before I rewatch this horror again I’ll give my opinion on it. I thought the tragedies this movie explored and showed were really thought out with each scene bringing an uncomfortable setting to the mind. Making it all feel like we were delving into the emotions of a man not only dealing with…
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This was not an alone late at night movie
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Made me feel bored, confused, disgusted, and generally awful. Couldn’t pay attention even if I wanted to
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32/100. I respect the ambition. I also respect the fact that he wrote, directed, edited, and sound design for this film. Nothing really stuck with me and I thought it was really boring.
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I saw this film in a outdoor cinema in Exarchia (Athens) and I smoked 5 cigarettes in the meantime, it didn’t make the film better
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i dont think im ready to be a father
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David Lynch transports you to a seemingly impossible industrial world where true human connection and nature wanes as factories take over. The anxiety that Henry goes through of raising a kid is something that aggressively latches onto the audience. Lynch’s involvement in editing and sound design cannot be understated; it wouldn’t be the same without it. If you want something done right… So much of Eraserhead informs his later work, and the fact that this is his first feature length…
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In heaven, everything is fine
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Askip j’ai pas la vision
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Tel Aviv GPT generate me some arthouse sludge that all the goyim will love … beep bop beep – i have generated Eraserhead
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Non lo rivedrei però tanta roba
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Praticamente (spoiler) un’opera prima su quanto David (Lynch) odiasse i suoi spermatozoi. Sequenza onirica di un’ora e mezza sul tema della paura della paternità (la canzone In heaven everything is fine però molto bellina).
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Very fever dream-ish, confusing yet intense. Had to look up an explanation after watching it and that just left me even more confused. But, even though I could hardly comprehend what was going on, I simply couldn’t stop watching. Incredible debut of an incredible director.
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Ngl at first glance I thought he was Gordon Ramsay
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Absolutely insane debut. That was one freaky baby, I hope Bo Burnham was not telling the truth in the song Sexting.
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6+/6.5 Il primo film di Lynch. Non posso negare che siastoricamente fondamentale e visivamente molto coraggioso, pero per me il ritmo è molto pesante. Considerato il vero e proprio manifesto del cinema lynchiano, Eraserhead mi ha molto impressionato se si pensa alle condizioni in cui è stato realizzato: girato nell’arco di circa cinque anni con un budget ridottissimo. Lynch dimostra già un talento straordinario nella gestione del sonoro (i ronzii e i rumori industriali creano un’angoscia costante) e in una…
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ce que s’occuper d’un enfant fait à un homme
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Baby’s first movie, we’ll done David. The atmosphere is incredible, the special effects are budgeted but used to perfection. The dream logic is chefs kiss.
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I would NOT like any children. 7.8/10
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I get it now
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During the first half i thought that the film was ok,nothing more,and then drastically in the second half i started to love it and just couldnt get enough of this style.The world feels so immersing and weird. Only Lynch could make a film like this.
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What the sick fuck did I just watch
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Não entendi nada. E esse filme me inspirou ainda mais em não ter filhos, vai que nasce um verme q nem esse
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Unsettling af And kinda hilarious too
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הסיבה שאני אשאר ערירי לנצח והתינוק אשכרה נראה כמו איירפוד
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Sonically terrifying, mentally stimulating, an absolute conversation starter in its approach and symbolism. But, alas, the baby has given me psychological trauma, and I will not be sleeping soundly for months to come. David Lynch is the master of the black and white, lighting and set design beyond what most other directors dream of. Something to chew on in every scene, even if it’s mostly viscous liquids and chicken parts.
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hey what the fuck
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one of the scariest movie and mind-fu*k movie I’ve ever seen in my life. Never in my life watchin’ a 1 and half hour movie could be this painful, really gave me headache fr
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My favourite movie to show people. I love how David lynch characters never have normal fucking names in the credits, this one has schizo names like: – “Mr. X” – “Beautiful Girl Across the Hall” – “Lady in the Radiator” – “Man in the planet”
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oh nah wtf going on in Philly bro I had to accept that I wasn’t going to understand every little thing or even be able to piece together a concrete timeline of real/dream events. But I went along and I was intrigued and moved. Mostly an overwhelming sense of anxiety and dread. This is how it feels to see on insta that other people my age are getting married and having kids I may have to think more about the rating not really sure how to rate this Some really great humor in the first part. The meeting the parents scene felt so real
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I’d be fine never seeing this again
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Tutti dicono che con i film di Lynch non bisogna trovare un significato ma piuttosto sentirli ecco questo mi ha trasmesso una sensazione di angoscia e tristezza. Ho provato claustrofobia pensando al protagonista Henry intrappolato in un incubo tutto dà solo, lui a quanto ho capito soffre di allucinazioni ed in più deve affrontare l’essere padre di un bambino prematuro che non sa gestire. Questo film lo vedo come la rappresentazione della vita di molti di noi quando diventiamo adulti e ci sentiamo schiacciati dalla monotonia e solitudine.
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i should say that its confusing, but what did i expect from a david lynch movie?
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vzivote som nevidela nic strasidelnejsie
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me 20 mins in: you know I think this is one of David Lynch’s easier films to understand me, an hour later: you stupid, stupid individual. die in a hole. Rookie parenting mistake from Henry, btw. Stabbing the baby’s heart with a knife isn’t actually what you’re supposed to do.
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Je savais rien du film avant de le voir donc ça m’a eue mdr Atmosphère de ouf
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Hab nichts gerafft muss nochmal gucken
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holy acid trip david lynch I see why people praise you so much
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🤖BEEP BOOP BEEP 🤖THIS MOVIE WAS SENT FROM THE VOID🌌THE DEEP DARK VOID 🤖🌌 Poor guy. He just looks around confused the whole movie, kind of like viewers.
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Eraserhead is basically a perfect film in my eyes, and a clear masterpiece of surrealism. The whole technical side of the film is done excellently, which is incredible for a directorial debut. Especially considering it came out in 1977. I adore Henry as a protagonist, and the bleakness of the industrial backdrop he navigates. It’s a perfect baseline for the surreal and spiritual world the film is set in. Thematically, it’s great. I think Lynch understood great surrealism always comes…
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Una puta mierda, la más grande de las putas mierdas, la neta, les costó 5 centavos hacer esta mierda. “Quiere alguien pensar en los hombres 😭😭😭” – la película. Es que no entiendo la necesidad de hacer este tipo de basura, el arte es subjetivo y siempre habrá un mamador diciendo “ah claro, se trató de esto”, claro que no pendejo, se nota que tu pinche director al que se la cromas tanto que ya hasta le sacaste brillo, se le antojó hacer una porquería en pantalla grande, ya basta de estas mierdas
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O filme esbanja uma estranha genialidade, e isso é o que consagra Eraserhead como uma obra prima, assim como um dos filmes mais estranhos já feitos. David Lynch se utiliza do estranho e do abstrato para tratar de temas como a total perda da identidade do protagonista Henry, tanto pelo cenário industrial que consumia os trabalhadores na época, assim como a forma como ele é sugado para o mundo da paternidade repentina. Um filme que fica na sua cabeça mesmo depois que sobem os créditos
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Domesticity was apparently the darkest fear of every artist in the ’70s.
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genuine birth control
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Wtf did I just watch Deuxième film de David Lynch que je regarde, avec Diego on captait pas grand chose, mais au moins les grandes lignes (peur de la paternité et des responsabilités en général). Un des films les plus bizarres que j’ai vu, David Lynch c’est très spécial mdrr
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Somehow one of the few Lynchs I had yet to see. K wanted to watch for the sound design and said afterwards of all the droning throbbing noise: “I feel like I’m not alone.” A movie about a man child bewildered at what he has done and made with his seed, represented here by goo-filled sperm-shaped sacks that fall from the air, get stepped on, and flung against the wall. The fear of responsibility, shirking relationships and care in favor…
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Iponico confuso e straniante.
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ser padre es casi claustrofóbico. pensé que me iba a perturbar mucho más
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Need to understand his fixation on skin conditions
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Perfectly encapsulates the fear of being thrown into unwanted fatherhood.
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watch this for isaac tonight ill never forget how much this shit wigged him the fuck out. this movie gets harder to watch the older i get. the scariest part is truly having to hear the baby cry non stop and literally no one fucking help it. Henry maybe wants to try but it’s not because of care as much as it is obligation. It’s fucking haunting and beautiful. and in heaven everything is fine.
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I hadn’t seen it in so long and watching it with someone who had never seen it before and who rarely watches movies made me view it from a new perspective… and it’s simply incredible. So much of what people try to imitate about Lynch is just so pure in this movie. This time around I noticed Henry is acting like a silent film protagonist, especially in the first few minutes of the film; the way he walks and the faint music feels like a Chaplin impersonation.
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83/100 You know i think eraserhead might really be my favourite david lynch so far, I really do love it. henry walking alone through this giant industrial hellscape city is super mesmerising, and reminds me of shaun tans work. I particularly liked the films sound design which i thought helped its desolate immersion immensely. A very lonely movie. Also creature design is very good and detailed
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god this looked beautiful on stellas oled. i’m gonna slowly force this mf to watch more of lynchs movies, and i thought there would be nowhere better to start from the start.
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Rewatched for my film class. Might like it even more since I watched it more analytically and understood more
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Ssaint ian ✰ 8 月 19, 2026
ijbol when that thang laughed
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C’est quoi ce bordel… Si on se demande à quoi ça ressemble la peur panique de la paternité, on a la version cauchemardesque juste la
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İİlke Karataş 8 月 8, 2026
David Lynch’in ilk uzun metrajlı filmiymiş. Benim de izlediğim ilk David Lynch filmi oldu. Sanırım ilk film için biraz yanlış bir tercih oldu… Kadıköy Sineması’nda o an o vardı ama maalesef… Her neyse; filme gelecek olursak, izlediğim en iğrenç, en gergin ve en anlam veremediğim film oldu. Ama bu iğrençlik ve gerginlik, anlatılmak istenenin ta kendisiydi zaten. Bu yüzden ebeveyn olma hayallerime uzun bir süreliğine ara vermem gerekti. Film sırasında başlayan mide bulantım iki gün boyunca geçmedi. Anlam veremediğim sahne…
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Loved the background sound. A little hard to follow, but it did feel like a crazy dream or nightmare—which was the point I think. Thought about it for days afterwards. Justice for eraserhead baby :-/
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no idea what was happening at all loved it. i cried when the thing came out of her. it was so good (???)
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supa cool atmosphere, awesome allegorical points and random disturbing and disgusting moments, absolutely enjoyedddddddd it won’t have kids ever
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yeah i’m never having kids what the actual fuck. watching this movie is what i imagine having sleep paralysis feels like.
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RRob O'Hara 1 月 17, 2025
Abstract take on fatherhood and life. I think.
- Synopsis
- First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
- Director
- David Lynch
- Writer
- David Lynch
- Studio
- AFI
- Country
- USA
- Language
- English
- Year
- 1977
- Runtime
- 89 mins
- USA19 Mar 1977
- UK16 Aug 2019
- USA28 Sep 1977
- Romania03 Feb 1978
- Denmark28 Sep 1977
- USA03 Feb 1978
- France07 Jun 1978
- UK29 Mar 1979
- Australia11 Apr 1980
- Spain13 May 1981
- Japan01 Sep 1981
- Italy30 Jan 1982
- Netherlands22 Dec 1983
- UK03 Sep 1993
- Finland25 Feb 1994
- Poland03 Nov 1995
- South Korea13 Jul 1996
- Netherlands15 Sep 2011
- Russia18 May 2017
- Netherlands23 Nov 2017
- Belgium17 Feb 2026
- UK15 Sep 2018
- UK16 Jun 1986
- UK08 Jan 2001
- UK04 Apr 2012
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