MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Rachmaninoff28 Here's my take on this incredibly disturbing delight of a film.The film is an aural and visual depiction of Henry's nightmarish mental struggle with the idea of abortion -- of "erasing" the mistake of his and Mary's baby. A few examples:The lady in the radiator represents abortion/an abortionist. The first time she appears, she's "cajolingly" standing on fetuses/sperm/babies (they're all the same in the symbolism of the film, I belive) while there's the sucking sound of the abortion procedure going on in the background. More evidence of that is that she's both repugnant and beautiful, like the idea of a abortion to Henry.More evidence is the scene in which Henry finally touches her. She's been "wooing" him throughout the film with the idea of an abortion with her sweet smile and her song about heaven, and when he finally touches her (accepts the idea of abortion) he's released from the dark, troubling place depicted so well in the film (worry, fear, guilt over the pregnancy) into pure light. Not only that, after he touches her/accepts the idea of an abortion, you hear the suction used in the abortion procedure once again, and see what looks like a fetus, umbilical cord and placenta being sucked away across the stage. BTW, I believe the little chickens are Mary's sexuality: They're tiny and underdeveloped, and when Henry sticks his phallic fork into one, it bleeds, like breaking the hymen. Mary's mum's reaction to the bleeding chicken and her announcement that Mary's had a baby straight afterwards make perfect sense, if that's the case. So does Henry's amazement that the baby's already at the hospital!If you agree with me, or anyone else, or not about what it all means, it doesn't really matter" This film succeeds in creating its own incredibly engaging "dream" world (emphasis on the word "dream" because that's precisely what the film is depicting: Henry's dream) even without a thought about what it might all mean. That's quite an achievement!

dougdoepke Good thing newly-weds don't see this surreal gem, otherwise we'd be seriously under-populated. Just who is that cosmic welder who turns out squirming sperm that keep turning up in strange places, like a marital bed. And what about that squid-like thing wrapped in swaddling clothes, a mutant of a mutant.Then there's that strange form of birth control—a sweet puffy-cheeked blonde who loves to sing while stomping on the wiggle warts. No wonder Henry goes around in a deadpan daze. And what about his classy neighborhood. It's an industrial heck, noisy enough to turn brains to mush, with more ugly metal than a junk yard, and enough gloom to rival a black hole. Good thing our puffy-cheek blonde promises a better place somewhere above, like heaven. But please, I shudder to think of Lynch's land beyond the Pearly Gates. Of course, all this is seen through a glass very, very darkly. Meanwhile, I'll break out my DVD when some literal-minded obsessive needs a dose of compelling imagination, like Lynch's.

Martin Bradley The first time I saw "Eraserhead" was in the Ritzy Cinema in Brixton. My friend Gerry had already seen it in San Francisco and was still in paroxysms of praise for the picture so I went in with high expectations; even so, I still wasn't prepared for what I saw that night. I was meeting Gerry in the bar next door afterwards but when I left the cinema I was still in something of a daze, or perhaps a trance, and started walking in the wrong direction. I knew I had seen some kind of masterpiece but I also knew here was a film I wouldn't want to sit through again, at least not for a very long time. Well, here we are 40 years later and I've just seen "Eraserhead" again.For anyone still ignorant of the fact, "Eraserhead" was the film that introduced David Lynch to the world and a few minutes into the film was enough to tell us that here was a singular new talent worthy to sit on a pedestal next to the young Welles, not that Welles would ever make a film like "Eraserhead"; indeed who, other than Lynch, would.There is a plot of sorts but essentially Lynch's film, luminously shot in black and white by Frederick Elmes and Herbert Cardwell, unfolds like a living nightmare, but whose? Lynch's? Henry's, (the central character that established Jack Nance as a cult actor for a new generation), or our own? Certainly there are images here enough to give the strongest of us nightmares, images and sounds, (this film has some of the finest sound designs ever recorded).It has been described as experimental, as avant-garde and by some just as a plain old horror film. You could say it's also a kind of love story, though a very warped and forbidding one. Lynch, of course, would go on to the likes of "Blue Velvet" and "Twin Peaks" and would never fully abandon the sensibilities first seen in this extraordinary film. I was more prepared for it this time but it still blew me away.

ben hibburd Eraserhead is David lynch's directorial debut. It follows a man named Henry played by jack Nance. Henry is a shy loner, holding down a job at a local printer factory. The film starts by following Henry go about his mundane life. After an awkward dinner at his girlfriends house he's informed that he has a baby. This sounds like a fairly simple story, but that's where the normality ends.Upon learning this news he soon finds out that his baby is a mutant. When you first witness the mutated baby it's something to behold. It's both surreal and incredibly disturbing. Especially in a scene towards the end of the film where you see it fully. The practical effects used, make what I can only describe as a cross between a worm a chicken and E.T. The film is shot on an extremely low budget and what lynch is able to achieve on screen is nothing short of remarkable.This maybe Lynch's debut, but it's definitely a film from his wheelhouse. It is filled to the brink with all his usual motifs. The film opens with a deformed man in a room pulling levers, what's he doing? why Is he doing it? It's up to the viewer to interpret. Watching Eraserhead feels like being stuck in a nihilistic lucid dream. Just when you think you've got a hold of the film, something new comes into play and throws you off.Eraserhead is Lynch at his most surreal, however it's still an accessible film to viewers who aren't familiar with Lynch's films. The film can be taken at face value. It doesn't ask the viewer to answer any questions or decipher it's deeper meanings. Rather it's to viewed as a cinematic experience, one that everybody should at-least try once. It's a beautifully shot film, one that washes over you with it's intoxicating atmosphere. It's a film that can be appreciated on just its visuals alone.However should the viewer decide to delve deeper, into it's meaning and subtext. There are themes of fear, guilt, sin, good and evil, and the contemplation of life, that is an even more rewarding experience to be had. Eraserhead is a film that requires multiple viewings like all of Lynch's films to be truly appreciated. It's a film that is both engaging and rewarding on many different levels.