Eraserhead Movie Review 1978

The infamous cult classic about a numb-brained everyman wandering through what amounts to a sick, ironic parody of the modern urban landscape, innocently impregnating his girlfriend and fathering a pestilent embryonic mutant. Surreal and bizarre, the film has an inner, completely unpredictable logic all its own. Lynch's first feature-length film stars Nance, who later achieved fame in Lynch's "Twin Peaks" as Pete the Logger.

Distribution

Sony Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Plz., 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232, Phone: (310)244-7306, Fax: (310)280-2485, URL: http://www.spe.sony.com, Remarks: Formerly Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment

Available on VHS
Running time 90 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Fantasy, Pregnant Pauses

Screenplay

David Lynch

Cast

Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph, Jeanne Bates, Judith Anna Roberts, Laurel Near, V. Phipps-Willson, Jack Fisk, Jean Lange, Darwin Joston, Hal Landon, Jennifer Lynch, Gill Dennis

Cinematography

Frederick Elmes, Herbert Cardwell

Director

David Lynch

Music

David Lynch, Fats Waller, Peter Ivers

Producer

David Lynch

Awards

Natl. Film Reg. 2004.