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  • LOL, just lol!!!!!

  • Thank you for killing off my future unborn children, Creepy-Ass Lady.

  • Masterwork of art!

  • this isnt normal, but on meth it is.

  • A woman who resides in the radiator, where the radiator is symbolic of suicide... a lady of death who captivates Henry, especially at the end when he embraces her.

  • Obviously the "worms" kind of steal the show.

  • I just love her little "eager to please" shrug at 1:33. :-P  You go, Lady In The Radiator! Stomp them sperms!

  • The music is reminiscent of john frusciante's solo work.

  • @smokinbill

    hahaha you mean creepy? like his niandre lades and usually just a t-shirt stuff?

  • mommy, wook! gwandmas twining to be on tv again!!

  • I haven't seen this before, but this has to be the strangest/creepiest movie ever fucking made. That whole scene was seriously unsettling.

  • I submitted a charcoal drawing of her to Showcase(:

  • So Henry what do you know?

  • HOW CAN THIS BE MORE AMAZING?

    fucking touching..

  • @SquidellyDiddely Your a fad gadget

  • Hey!

    That woman has ovaries on her cheeks!

    And she's stomping on giant sperm!

    What kind of sick twisted shit is this Eraserhead?

  • @SquidellyDiddely its a band..an EPIC band

  • Davis Lynch spent way too long on a sophomoric, uneven piece about the hostility men feel towards being home-and-woman- bound.

    He had no choice but to employ campy schlock, and an amateurish attempt at hallucinogenic atmospherics to mitigate the significant lack of characterization and dialogue in the film.

    Lynch attracts sympathy as an underdog, and perhaps inadvertently, enjoys a certain esprit-de-corps with his largely undiscerning fan base. He was and still is an overrated filmmaker.

  • @HomoBronzeBaterectus you are a complete pretentious fuck

  • I think thebronzebat's favorite part of Eraserhead is the sperm.

    He says it tastes like chicken.

  • @ bronze boy - They're sperm. You should have hands-on experience with the little buggers, right? A wee bit touchy, are we, laddie?

    David Lynch and other creative people have little use for worshipful fan-boys, as they tend to lack perspective and a critical eye. And the "old man" reference - Ah ha hą ha *cough* *cough*....

    What a worthless, infantile, sniffer of other people's b○tţ○ms.....

  • David Lynch shot his wad, oh ah hah ha hahahaha ahhh get it, shot his wad aaaahhhh ha ha hahaha uh uh uhhnnn...

    ....with this one.

  • Its actually quite a catchy song

  • what is she stepping on

    this might be weird but sum1 told me it was sperm

  • it's sperm, the meaning of that it's that she is anticipating the death of eraserhead son

  • Uhhh... yeah. Those slimy things dropping from the ceiling are spermatozoa.

  • wtf? this is disturbing...

  • @SpoofChicken - So TheCrapfather is a moron, for reacting in the way ol' Lynch intended. Mr. Eraserhead himself said his movie (and all the little bits it's made of, including the sperm) came from a place inside him that was disturbed by the experience in the decaying environment of an industrial city, an environment wholly unlike that he grew up in. He had feelings of inadequacy regarding marriage and fatherhood as well.

  • Well, all that is a load of crap, 'cause I'm not disturbed by his silly movie. That wouldn't be cool anyway, it'd be just like CrapFather, falling for Lynch's dumbass movie.

    I guess everybody's noticed that every one of Lynch's subsequent movies has rehashed bits of Eraserhead in them. What a one-hit wonder Ol' David Lynch is.

  • that fucking face.

  • But she is so beautiful I can't help but watch!

  • Mio cugino dice il vero

  • Ho visto questo grande film insieme a mio cugino, e abbiamo ipotizzato che la donna deformata sia il Diavolo tentatore, che risiede nella coscienza del protagonista.Henry Spencer vuole uccidere suo figlio(il feto) e vede la donna che lo tenta schiacciando a sua volta feti, lui sa che senza il figlio che gli rovina la vita starà meglio..ma non starebbe a posto con la coscienza e il Diavolo lo tenta, facendogli vedere una possibilità di vita migliore (Il paradiso)

  • esatto!

  • Se non è proprio il diavolo è perlomeno quella parte egoista della sua coscienza che lo spingerebbe ad abbandonare le sue responsabilità uccidendo metaforicamente il figlio.

    Tanto Lynch ha detto espressamente che nessuno finora ha capito il senso del film e che lui non lo rivelerà mai.

    Pare che abbia letto un verso della Bibbia e in esso abbia visto una visione di insieme del significato dell'opera, ma io ci vedo più la trasposizione simbolica e tetra di alcuni momenti della vita di Lynch

  • of the entire movie, the lady in the regester freaked me out the most. That or when his kid got sick

  • Is it me, or is this movie hard to follow?

  • Only if you try to follow it.

  • this is why i don't like david lynch.

  • I don't know why people find eraserhead so disturbing.

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  • In first two minutes i was like: SING IT BITCH! XD

  • WTF?

  • Hollywood sure doesn't know how to film a love story like they used to. Keep up the great work!

  • Jesus. I had forgotten how hauntingly unsettling this film is. This is the kind of film I want to show to friends, however they'll probably never look at me the same way after.

  • @VonCouch I feel the same way

  • what the hell were those things the lady was stepping on 0_0

  • Those are spermazoa. She represents the ovum inside the uterus, but she is not excepting the sperm so she steps on them. That's why she is called the Radiator Lady.

  • Wow! Thank you for that analogy.

  • You're welcome.

  • Sperm. Individual spermatozoa. Not fetuses.

    The symbolism is, his sperm don't have a chance of impregnating her, as opposed to his wife. So, he can have sex and no monsters to worry about. Except.... she is a monster herself.

    All women are.

    I don't get the testicle face part, though.

  • Is that Lynch singing?

  • i'm fucked upp & disturbed to the point where nearly everyone assumes that nothing can make me cry, but no matter how many times I watch this, I still cry everytime. The most powerful & disturbung film I've ever seen. It's almost toomuch for me.

  • That's the best blurb for a film I've ever read! :-D

  • That song. That song will allways haunt me.

  • i know. the worst phrase to have stuck in ur head is "in heaven everything is fine" because its like telling you to commit suicide or something. and it sounds fucking creepy, and to top it off that girl looks so fucked up.

  • I know. They say if anyone who watches this movie on LSD has 9 in 10 chance of commiting suicide.

  • that is so funny you should say that, I saw it 24 years ago with my girlfriend, we were on mushrooms, she ended up in the emergency ward because she had a bad trip and couldn't stop puking!

  • This was the film I watched, all of eighteen, the first time I took LSD. I couldn't make it through the film, and had to leave. Thus I am in the 10%! But you are correct - not a children's movie.

  • Why would you even want to watch this movie or anything like while tripping? Doesn't sound too fun to me. But then again I'm the type who likes to be outdoors chillin not sitting inside watching a movie while on a trip, bugs me out a little. :)

  • I know what you mean. The first three times I tried to watch Pulp Fiction, I was tripping! I never made it past where Samuel L Jackson was drinking the Sprite from Big Kawuana Burger. It is so much better to be outside where you can breathe.

  • WTF?

  • One of my TOP 3 FAVORITE MOVIES.

    Fucking LOVE Eraserhead!

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  • Questo film è veramente PESANTE O_O

  • Eraserhead was a film about abortion. Henry contemplated killing the baby he didn't want to raise. Quite disturbing.

  • i don't think it's only about abortion, there's a much more deep meaning, even if it's hard to understand it.

    one word: Surrealism, that's all

  • scusa ma cosa c'entra la velocità in questo film?è un film sperimentale e la velocità non ha significato..sono sicuro che al cinema usciresti in ogni caso terrorizzato..più di ogni film veloce ma è un discorso che non ha senso.. e poi non era il film preferito di Kubrick era semplicemente uno dei tanti film che lo emozionavano ancora..come tutti quelli di Kieslowski e il cinema Felliniano di ultimo stampo.Era ovviamente a favore degli sperimentatori.

  • kubrik faceva sì che i suoi attori prima di recitare per shining, vedesseo eraserhead per porli nella condizione di angoscia e paura..

  • condivido raccatacca. qui velocità e ritmo non contanto dato che tutto viene destrutturato a partire dalla trama!!La messa in scena, L'uso della fotografia e gli stessi personaggi hanno un'impronta surrealistica senza precedenti. E qui non si parla del surrealismo di bunuel che è tutta un'altra cosa.Questo è surrealismo d'avanguardia.

  • in heaven everything is fine. what does it mean?

  • @kippero: To me, it means that the individual does not exist in the afterlife. That is, until we are born again are forced back into a world of suffering.

    In heaven, everything is fine. You've got your good things and you've got mine.

  • Daniele.

  • Wtf...

  • Me too. Lets do it together

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  • What a film, more experienced than enjoyed but one thing is for sure is that you will never forget it. In heaven everything is fine!

  • david lynch is fucking sick!

  • What's normal then?

  • Creepy movie!

  • I watched this movie for the first time tonight, it's amazing.

  • WTF IS THIS FUCKING MOVIE OMG

  • AHAHAHAHAHA!!!

  • This really is the only movie that has ever scared me. It's so bizarre that it makes no sense at times, but grasps the imagination. I'll never watch it again, once was more than plenty.

  • seriously! my friend i guess watched it on smack and I really don't think she'll ever get over it lol this movie freaks me out!

  • loser

  • aww thanks =)

    lets be friends

  • drratburn: truth spoken here, guy

  • I think it's M. Monroe.... Death is a trip we know, not of. Lynch conveys so many, msg's here. It's ashame about the death of Jack Nance. RIP.  Trippy movie :).

  • And what a sad last few years it must have been for him after the death of his wife. Truly is a shame about his death, which was also rather sad. RIP Jack. =(

  • great!

  • One of my favorite movies, just bizarre. : )

  • go hug a tree

  • Right right! Or... you could just shut the fuck up.

  • I really love these kinds of arbitrary, dream-like films. Obviously Frank Black did also.

  • dam that shits scary

  • Horror/slasher flicks really don't scare me that much. Movies like Eraserhead however scare the crap out of me in the most unsettling and interesting ways.

    I guess it's because so many of the scenes contain themes that are completely incongruous but yet are blended seamlessly. This scene for example. Pretty girl, pretty music + deformed face, critter squishing.

    The effect is disorienting, disturbing on the most primitive level. Awesome.

  • I second that ^_^

    I was so uncomfortable when I first watched this movie.

  • I've always had a strange crush on the lady in the radiator.

  • sorry about that comment about the drugs, I didn't know what that was about till I got some messages about it but that was my cousin right before he decided to get an account

  • The Elephant man = Eraserhead - all the wierd shit.

  • A disturbing movie. I've watched it three times since I first encountered it many years ago. Each time it gives me the creeps and I swear I won't watch it again...but it is fascinatingly bizarre...

  • i'm a lynch freak and in general a movie freak ,gonna study it btw but what i wanna say is ,everytime i see it ,saw it 4 times or so ,only at night ,i have the most fascinating dreams or nightmares ,watched it yesterday and i dreamt that i was given a black cup by some guy i've never seen before and told me i should listen in the cup,beautiful sounds he said ,so i did that and i heard a very strange alien language or something,suddenly a creature was standing near my bed and i was terrified ...

  • this scene = salvia

  • let's all think shall we,why would lynch put this in the movie ,it still looks creepy but does this give you hope ? that in heaven everything would be fine ? that when you die,it's no biggy ? i love lynch movies soo soo much ,gives you alot to think about,he wasn't high when he made this,the most of the viewers are high :) but i wasn't either,i found it comepletely mesmerizing,kubricks fav movie ...

  • even being high on crack can't help me interpret this movie !

  • You can't get high on Crack, you can get stoned though so It's hard to believe you actually use it.

  • you get stoned on pot. you get high on crack. and you'd be surprised how many of us have done it

  • The first time I saw it, I hadn't even heard of it. My bud said to me "it's the most disturbing movie in history. It's so insane that it has even been know to make people hallucinate" Little did I know he sliped me about 8 hits of LSD in my drink. That was not fun. AT ALL. The funny thing is, I actually belived it was the movie that made me see shit, It wasn't until years later he told me.

  • 8 hits? shit man, and watching this too

  • wow eraserhead is not the time to be on 8 hits of lucy. when i trip L i like happy, warm movies like aladdin or curious george. or better yet, experience nature, the trippiest of all

  • hahahaha

  • um, being a regular stoner, and never having used crack; i'd have to say you have no idea what you're talking about. Pot gets you stoned. Crack gets you high. Opiates make you sleep, but that's something else.

  • While Lynch has a long history of demonizing women, this film is not so much opposed to women as it is opposed to birth; conception. -a long standing theme in Lynches work, who has a deep fear of the fallible process of gestation. The Elephant man, for example-.

  • Oh man, it was almost at my fave part! 5/5

  • bizarre, its all the faces of the madness

  • leapin' lizards:))hehe..heavent heard it since little annie.nice one.

  • I am actually kind of scared that I will be depressed after watching this movie if I ever see it. This little clip made me sad and feel and odd emotion and I don't think i'll even understand it at all.

  • thats funny i felt the EXACT same way about this film. in fact I have kind of avoided it over the years even though I was intrigued by it. I thought that if I watched it it would put me through an existential crisis.

  • a friend of mine learned all of this in school, where they studied the film:

    the film is very anti-women. the cheeks represent ovaries and the fact that they belong to the lady in the radiator explains that they are being "burned"... she is using sex as a means of control over men (hence the stepping on sperm). the mutilated baby and mary x's depression represents how women use children and their resulting hardships as ugly tools of persuasion to keep men in their lives.

  • if you watch the movie again with the idea that it is very opposed to and angry with women, it makes quite a bit of sense.

  • David Lynch stated that no one has ever came close to the true meaning of the film. The idea you are presenting might make sense, but so do all other ideas and explinations given to this film. The meaning mostly depends on the personality of the person who's giving an explination. To me, that might could've been the purpose of the film: there is no meaning and so many meanings at the same time.

  • you have no clue what the fuck you are syaing. David Lynch himself has stated that he doens't even remember making this film.

  • This is an excellent analogy. Mine was close but you hit the nail on the head!

  • its an audition for heaven

  • DL is the best

  • TY for the explanation. I was really confused. It seemed like a tool music video for a minute there.

  • My guess is its a film about how people deal with what 'they' believe to be mistakes. For me a baby is not a mistake, but to Henry, obviously it's a big problem, and how he deals with his problem is the essence of the film.

  • lynch rulez!

  • WTF is on her face and WTF is she stomping on?

  • fetus'

  • Her face has gigantic cheeks: it's an emphasis on how happy she is. She is stomping on spermcells that created the mutulated child: she's getting rid of his problems. Then she sings that everything is fine in heaven: Henry is thinking about comitting suicide. In fact, in all when Henry is looking at the radiator, it symbolizes his suicide plans. In the end they embrace each other: he finally finds peace in death.

  • Another excellent analogy! It is refreshing to see intelligence in these rooms when studying David Lynch's films.

  • OMG! Pixies!

    with your feet in the air and your head on the ground....

    i had no idea

    i want to see this movie sooooooo bad.

  • Does anyone else get an evil, almost foreboding feeling from this movie? I love it regardless though.

  • @babyduck1, yes I "smell" that feeling, too. As for me that scene inclines me to believe that this baby is a strong emphasis to the fact that unborn human beings reveal human's lack of divinity; babies without cute look who would be just bigger fetus thus would function as a reminder of that fact. We have to deceit ourself about the fleshness of each living being by cute and naive appearence - just as that (in fact, not esteem) cruel woman. Consenting to the killing of such reminder is "evil".

  • That scene with the analogy of the chicken and the human baby also got me to think; can you have an objective respect for the dignity of a human being when you are no vegetarian? In his first steps towards live human beings can hardly be distuinguished with other animals (some animal and human fetus share by nature optic and biological features).

  • We may tread other animals merely as means, but we must tread humans as ends in themselves - this movie questions the border between the two.

    If some human beings may be - with our very consent! - treated as nonhumans the question arises: so what about our own value?

    We are trapped: seeing this being without any cuteness can makes us feel as invaluable flesh - killing it, however, verifies this judgement concerning human's absolute value.

  • To get controverse again: either you change your criteria for the validity of a living being to have a value and be an end in itself, or you have might end up in nazi eugenics (as this woman killed "inferior" life).

    Either you can stand the fact that human beings are dirty imperfect flesh and bones, or you have to get rid of all evidence of ugliness; Plato applied for hiding deformed people, the church forbade to analize dead people.

  • But hey... in reality everything is way cuter than in this movie. So that questions do not arise that drastically; in fact to such a small degree that eating a chicken should not remind too much people about eating human beings.

    Babies are tons of times cuter than grilled chicken. So have a good appetite :-)

  • i tihnk shes just supposed to represent happiness through death, at the end when they embrace and he's finally happy, after the baby fire

  • Hm, i didn't see the movie yet, but to me he expresses that for him sexuality is spoiled, since it makes him think about creating ugly things; after all, sexuality and those inclined to sexual intercourse dive into uglyness themselves.

  • no movie i have ever seen has created a more intense atmosphere

  • i would tap it

  • Me too.

    What's wrong with us?

  • nothing. Just really horny I guess

  • One of the most disturbing films i've ever seen! Truly a masterpiece, and Lynch is a genius without doubt!

  • this is one of my favorite movies of all time, i was fortunate to snag the last DVD at the store i got it from

  • Besides that, everytime she steps on the things i cringe.....a lot.

  • My theory (criticize me if you like but the entire movie is open to intepretation), but the things falling on the floor represent (or are)fetuses, and the radiator girl stepping on them represents abortion. Which might go hand in hand with the fact the movie is about fear of parenthood, and some find an abortion an escape. But like i said earlier with this movie one cannot be too sure.

  • yea i kind of thought that too... but more like they were sperms and she was an ovary and she was like weeding out the bad ones or whatever. haha. but i'm glad someone else thought something like that.

  • I would rather say thata she represents death or suicide. The thing she squashes represents as you said the baby. He is simply thinking that suicied (death) is his only option to get rid of the baby.

  • the script was only 20 pages long =) wich is awesome cause the movie makes your head spin of it's weird contents ,the most disturbing 'dangerous' film i've ever seen ,together with Begotten(that's also fucked up) ...i only saw lost highway and mullholland drive (and eraserhead) from Lynch thoug ...oh well

  • indefinably the most disturbing film i have ever watched.

  • Lynch is god!!! no hesitation about it, fuck he's so awesome.

    and for all of you that want to get it or want that GOOD movies make sense to you, please read some essays from people like Daney, Benjamin there are truly a lot of good thinkers that can help you, but don't suppose stupid things or say it doesn't make sense in a bad way, cause you got in a bad position (you make a fool out of yourselves)

  • i don't understand this scene? as far as i understand he is dreaming about a woman in the radiator..? am i supposed to underdtand this scene even?

  • Apparently this movie is not supposed to make sense. The excuse one can always fall back on when their movie or a movie they like makes no sense is the ole; "well it's a dream" argument. I think most feel that applies here.

  • ok werd!

  • spooky!

  • IDWTPH, wasnt that the point of the movie, to make it incoherent to be LIKE A DREAM!!!

  • That is fine if you like it. If you read everything I said you would see that I said it would have been fine if nothing made sense as long as the individual scenes actually stood up on their own and were somewhat entertaining. I happen to think they did not. For the record I loved Mulholland Drive and had a good time trying to figure that one out. Inland Empire, not so much. We're all allowed to have different opinions. It would be boring if we did not.

  • this is one of best movie's that i have ever seen.You really can't explain the movie Eraser Head because the movie really doesn't have a polt to it.

  • you are DEFINATELY a prick!

  • First off it's "D-E-F-I-N-I-T-E-L-Y." Second; really name calling? You can do beter than that.

  • is liked he filmed a dream... i dont understand but i cant stop watching it

  • Scarier than any horror film you'll ever see.