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Eraserhead(Movie, 1977)

1h 29min | Genre: Horror
EraserheadRating: 3.7/5 (with 11101,110 votes)
Eraserhead is a 1977 American surrealist psychological body horror film written, directed, produced, and edited by David Lynch. Lynch also created its score and sound design, which included pieces by a variety of other musicians. Shot in black and white, it was Lynch's first feature-length effort following several short films. Starring Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Jeanne Bates, Judith Anna Roberts, Laurel Near, and Jack Fisk, it tells the story of a man (Nance) who is left to care for his grossly deformed child in a desolate industrial landscape. Eraserhead was produced with the assistance of the American Film Institute (AFI) during Lynch's time studying there. It nonetheless spent several years in principal photography because of funding difficulties; donations from Fisk and hi... ()
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About Eraserhead

First time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child. David Lynch arrived on the scene in 1977, almost like a mystical UFO gracing the landscape of LA with its enigmatic radiance. His inaugural work, "Eraserhead" (1977), stood out as a cinematic anomaly, painting a surreal narrative of a young man navigating a dystopian, industrialized America, grappling not only with his tumultuous home life but also contending with an irate girlfriend and a mutant child.

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Eraserhead Trailer (David Lynch, 1977)(Trailer, 1:50)

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Shot in: California
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 23 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Burmese (MY), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 03/19/1977
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Cabeza borradora"
"Labyrinth Man"
"이레이저 헤드"
"이레이저헤드"
"Cabeza de borrador"
"Голова-гумка"
Budget: 100,000 USD
Revenue: 7,000,000 USD (= 7,000%)

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:3839, Added: 02/14/2018, Last updated: 03/10/2024