Not even bad in a good way

There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

I think that Eraserhead is what no movie should be. That is because this movie revolves around two things: Its heavy usage of pretentious symbolism and its imagery being mostly gore. This movie has nothing more to offer than seeing disturbing imagery while listening to jarring noises. I saw many people say its about the experience, but honestly if I want a 1,5 h long experience about gore images, I can also watch a documentary about the holocaust, or some other cruel part of our history. In this case I actually learn something and care about what is happening, because it happened to real people. This movie doesn't manage to make me feel anything, other than being bored and a little disgusted. I don't know if the movie is supposed to make me feel anything but I think there are only 2 reasons to watch a movie: 1.to feel some kind of emotion. Can be anything, fear from a horror movie, sadness from a drama, excitement from an action movie. I guess that is the main reason why people watch and enjoy movies. The other reason which I personally think is more important is to watch movies to learn something. By that I don't only mean actual knowledge. Learning new perspectives of looking at things, new ideas that may be meaningless in actual life, but keep you awake at night. Now you might say that's what "Eraserhead" is trying to do, but like all Lynches movies and like all of these, "over the top" symbolic movies are their messages too hidden behind symbols. Sometimes it's even not clear if the movie even has a meaning behind its symbols, something the writer actual intended. You know you don't learn something new by interpreting symbols, you only learn what you already know, because YOU yourself are interpreting what is going on. That is my biggest concern about Symbolism. Sometimes it can be quiet interesting to have symbolism in your story. It can make the experience feel unique because it depends on the viewer. But I think that only works if you have a story line as a base to begin with, something to care about. There are some movies, like Eraserhead where this isnt the case.So does "Eraserhead" at least have a meaning behind its images? I don't really know. While watching the movie it seemed to me that with including all this gore he wanted to portrait life as being this inherit ugly things, or if you turn it on its head, that being creeped out is something irrational because it is normal and all around us, because there are a few scenes that show rather unusual, probably even disgusting scenes and all the character react as if it was the most normal thing in the world. He shows events that may occur in anyone's life at some point. Mostly events that can be very unnerving, such as a dinner with your partner's parents while finding out that said partner is pregnant. Or later in the movie it portraits the many sleepless nights a young couple must endure after having a baby and the psychological stress this inflicts onto a person. The movie takes those realistic scenes and sets it in a world full of strange and creepy occurrences. For example, the meal they eat at the dinner is a moving half sized chicken that spills blood constantly, or the baby the story focuses later on is some sort of alien looking creature. But I don't really see that message portrayed at the end with all the overload of gore and the main protagonist's reaction to all of it, which makes me unsure what this movie was all about.Now I watched a few of Lynches other movies. For example "Lost Highway", which is equally meaningless, but at least had some nice cinematography, a few interesting lines of dialogue and something you might even call a story. Eraserhead however had none of it and was a very disappointing watch.

I would say that Eraserhead is a very well made movie. The wide, open shots are very nice, the use of lighting is good, the soundtrack is wonderfully chosen, it is overall a very well made movie.However, that does not mean that i consider this to be a good, or enjoyable movie. This film to me feels like someone got lost in the Twilight zone and i didn't have Rod Serling there to tell me why he was there, what was happening to him, or what the theme of the episode was suppose to be. This movie does not have any kind of plot or structure, it's more like an art house project that is suppose to be taking a look at what absurd means. But it fails to me as a film because it is trying so hard to be a absurd piece of art that it forgets to be a movie that one can really sit down and enjoy.I understand why this movie has its fans. As a piece of art, it could be considered to be genius, but to me, as a movie, it utterly fails.

I had never seen this until it came on Turner Classic Movies. Classic? What a joke. TCM needs to get this as far away from their library of movies as possible. This did not have one redeemable quality. Slow, boring, nothing to like about any of the characters. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME!! Horrible movie.

Unlikable misfit factory worker Henry Spencer (a nicely deadpan portrayal by Jack Nance) lives in hellish squalor in a shabby apartment with his glum girlfriend Mary X (the pretty, but shrill Charlotte Stewart) and their grotesque constantly mewling mutant baby.With its jarring sound design, bleak industrial landscape, hypnotically gradual pace, funky old school practical special effects, and potently brooding gloom-doom mood fraught with dread, decay, and despair, David Lynch's debut full-length feature possesses a surreal nightmarish atmosphere that's uniquely its own singularly warped thing. Better still, the grim dream-like world presented herein proves to be so vivid, aberrant, and strangely convincing that once seen it's impossible to forget about. The interesting array of colorfully quirky secondary characters rates as another substantial asset: Allen Joseph as cranky plumber Mr. X, Laurel Near as a sweet and cheerful swollen-cheeked gal who lives in Harry's radiator, Jack Fisk as the badly scarred man in the planet, Judith Ann Robets as a seductive and predatory neighbor, Neil Moran as Henry's stern boss, and Darwin Joston as browbeaten desk clerk Paul. The striking black and white cinematography by Frederick Elmes and Herbert Cardwell offers a wondrous wealth of startling and bizarre visuals. A fascinating one-of-a-kind oddity.