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Eraserhead

The 100 Best Horror Movies of All Time - Variety, 2024

Eraserhead

1977

David Lynch

Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph, Jeannie Bates ...

6.7

20,107

Fantasy. Drama Lynch's fiendish cult classic adopts the logic of dreams and nightmares as layers of reality dissolve, sucking you into the eerie world of a warped mind. The befuddled "hero" Henry struggles against the powers of the shrinking mutant slab in this demented gem which promises that in heaven, everything is fine.

	Media	Author	Review
		Mike D'Angelo AV Club	"[It] remains one of cinema’s most unsettling nightmares (...) See 'Eraserhead' once and it’ll lodge itself firmly in some dank recess of your brain and refuse to vacate."
		Steve Beard Empire	"This is a lot more radical and enjoyable than his later Hollywood efforts (...) This is a classic, no matter how comfortable it is to watch (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Peter Sobczynski rogerebert.com	"Every time I watch, I remain just as enraptured with the film and its mysteries (...) 'Eraserhead' continues to be a stunning work that quite simply redefines what a feature film can do"
		Variety	"The pic has good tech values (particularly the inventive sound mixing), but little substance or subtlety"
		Tom Huddleston Time Out	"A singular work of the imagination, a harrowing, heartbreaking plunge into the darkest recesses of the soul (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"Some of it is disturbing, some of it is embarrassingly flat, but all of it shows a degree of technical accomplishment far beyond anything else on the midnight-show circuit."
		Walter Addiego SFgate	"Lynch has a remarkable talent for creating richly suggestive visuals that send some viewers into frenzies of interpretation"
		Chuck Bowen Slant	"The images are so alien and frightening, yet so rapturously beautiful, that you feel as if you’re glimpsing the primal id of cinema (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"

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