Eraserhead

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Eraserhead (1977)

It's hard to come up with a synopsis for this film that had a script a mere 22 pages long. There is little dialog and even less linear plot or storyline. Eraserhead isn't viewed so much as it is experienced and reacted to.

Here's the IMDB summary:

Is it a nightmare or an actual view of a post-apocalyptic world? Set in an industrial town in which giant machines are constantly working, spewing smoke, and making noise that is inescapable, Henry Spencer lives in a building that, like all the others, appears to be abandoned. The lights flicker on and off, he has bowls of water in his dresser drawers, and for his only diversion he watches and listens to the Lady in the Radiator sing about finding happiness in heaven. Henry has a girlfriend, Mary X, who has frequent spastic fits. Mary gives birth to Henry's child, a frightening looking mutant, which leads to the injection of all sorts of sexual imagery into the depressive and chaotic mix.

Brilliant, disturbing, funny, frightening. The film seems to have a different meaning for everyone who sees it.

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...i STILL have never been able to track a copy of Lynch's initial work down..

Believe you me, the day i find it will be a momentous one!