Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newborn mutant child.

This is probably David Lynch at his weirdest/most abrasive? A true cult masterpiece.

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My fave Lynch film. Nothing else comes close. See here: https://archive.org/details/the-lady-vanishes-1938_202204/Eraserhead+(1977).m4v

For those that don't know, the soundtrack to this movie had a great impact on the Dark Ambient genre: https://davidlynch.bandcamp.com/track/side-b

The mood and tone of Eraserhead and its soundtrack were influenced by Philadelphia’s post-industrial history. ... Lynch and Splet used avant-garde approaches to recording on the soundtrack; including crafting almost every sound in the soundtrack from scratch using bizarre methods. The ambiance of the love scene in the movie, for example, was produced by recording air blown through a microphone as it sat inside a bottle floating in a bathtub.[10] Lynch and Splet worked “9 hours a day for 63 days” to produce the soundtrack and all of the sound effects in the film. Splet recalls the sound effects Lynch called on him to produce for Eraserhead as "snapping, humming, buzzing, banging, like lightning, shrieking, squealing” over the five years it took to produce the film and its soundtrack.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eraserhead_(soundtrack)

I wanted to like this movie. I tried to like this movie. I could not finish this movie.

It can be pretty rough.

The audience reactions are fantastic.

Movie Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVJICfUx8M0

David Lynch trailer for reshowings of Eraserhead where he hangs out with five Woody Woodpecker plush dolls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiaWFi70HP4

Entire movie on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GrFfkNvMU4