Yep.
How could there be spoilers for Eraserhead?
I saw it in the early 80’s in a cinema in Kilburn, north-west London (a block of flats now stands on the site of which) in a very late night double bill - it started at midnight - with The Satan Bug.
OK, it was a trifle confusing - having seen it a few times since, I still don’t know what the hell it’s “about” - but I couldn’t help but marvel at the look and sound of it and the excellent performances, particularly by the baby…
As a big fan of Blue Velvet, I first saw Eraserhead at home as a rental. I was probably about 18 or 19. I had about the same reaction as the OP - awed befuddlement. Several years later I saw Eraserhead again on a big screen. I still couldn’t tell you what it’s about, but I was much more impressed. Not only by the striking visuals, but the amazing things done with the sound - like the constant white noise. Very disturbing yet so compelling. I feel it’s a real landmark of cinema. David Lynch is one of those directors you can’t be ‘eh’ about. You either love or hate his stuff, and I’ve felt both ways for different works of his. Even within the terrific show Twin Peaks, the quality varied widely from episode to episode, but the ones Lynch directed were always great.
If someone told what the baby is made of.
I’ve seen several of them and I have to wonder how much of the acclaim was drug-induced.
There’s an excellent chapter on Lynch with the main focus on Eraserhead in the book Midnight Movies (and I see there’s now an Eraserhead image on the cover). It covers his career up until Elephant Man and IIRC mentions in a footnote his intention to film Dune.
I have an old pirated copy of Eraserhead around somewhere but I’ve never been able to watch it all the way through. Every time I start watching it I fall asleep, I think from some sort of hypnotic effect as opposed to tiredness or boredom.
In Heaven is my favourite shower song.
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Love.
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Book.
The Pixies did a cover of the “Lady in the Radiator Song”; it’s on the album of outtakes and demos and such that was released as The Pixies. (I think it circulated for a while as a bootleg called “The Purple Album” before release?)
It brings the word “sledgehammer” irresistibly to mind.
I had John Waters autograph my copy years ago. He’d never heard of it and had no idea he had a chapter.
It’s just Pixies. No ‘the’ on band or album.
I say that every time I watch this movie. But I’m gonna keep trying.