Eraserhead (1977) trailer

what is this movie about exactly?

Just watched it today and I must say - it was an experience like no other. Absolutely fantastic, Lynch really captures a nightmarish essence throughout. Brilliant. The best thing about it was it's simplicity - no heavy reliance on explosions or CGI like all of today's horror movies. They don't make 'em like this anymore.

@Tangetastic I totally agree. When I first saw it years ago, late at night on telly, it absolutely freaked me out. Its just fascinating and creepy at once. But I still cant work out what its about...Some of the images are so weird and freaky they just stick in the mind forever. Even strange things like the black and white lino on the stage - I dont know why - the strange lady - and esp the infamous baby which makes me cringe in my stomach. Excellent.

I really wanna know the full disclosure behind the Baby prop. Not to mention where it was buried.

"The audio commentary (in the special features) by Lynch is a fucking trip in itself. Even he didn't have any idea what this film was about and if anybody here has taken LSD before they would understand why.
I believe that the film puts us inside the mind of an insecure,anti-social,paranoid schizophrenic.
This film is and experience more than it is a movie.
The first time I watched this I couldn't get past the guy at the start moving the levers, all through the film I was baffled(brainmelt)

@D4MVP you're totally right man

@TheMainbox  agreed

Lynch said, I think somewhere in the Blue Velvet featurettes, that Eraserhead is based on his life during the time he spent in Philadelphia. So really the entire film is a metaphor for what its like to live in the heart of an industrial environment.

I just saw this movie a couple of days ago. It is amazing, simple amazing. One of my favorites now. I have never had a movie elicit such feelings for me. I don't even know what the feelings were really...uneasiness and an eerie feeling were 2 I could identify. His show dumbworld was EVEN stranger!!! I stopped watching that because it was too creepy.