Eraserhead

Directed by David Lynch, and released in 1977. This is Lynch's first feature-length film, produced using a $10,000 grant from the AFI. However, the grant was not sufficient to complete the film and, as a result, Lynch worked on Eraserhead intermittently until its release in 1977. Lynch used money from friends and family, including boyhood friend Jack Fisk, a production designer and the husband of actress Sissy Spacek, and from odd jobs to finish the film.

The film follows a short period of the life of Henry Spencer (Jack Nance), a printer on vacation. Henry discovers that his estranged girlfriend, Mary X (Charlotte Stewart), has given birth to a deformed, amphibious baby. He marries her, and, after a tumultuous and brief time living together, Mary leaves Henry who then cares for the ill baby himself. A bizarre sequence of events ensues, including visions of a woman in Henry's radiator dancing and stomping on small sperm-like creatures, a tryst with the woman across the hall, and a dream sequence in which Henry's head is used to make pencil erasers.

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