Post by Hug_the_Dead on Jun 2, 2008 12:40:50 GMT -5
to Obscure for the rec, by the way.
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Title: Eraserhead
Taglines: In Heaven Everything Is Fine./Warning: the nightmare has not gone away/Where your nightmares end.../A dream of dark and troubling things.
US Release Date: 19 March 1977
Directed by: David Lynch
Written by: David Lynch
Running Time: 89 min | USA:108 min (approx.) (premiere version) [/glow]
Plot: Henry Spencer, a printer on vacation, goes to his girlfriend's home for dinner with her parents. But after dinner, he finds out that Mary, his girlfriend, has had a baby! They are hitched almost immediately. But the baby is deformed. No ears, no limbs, slits for a nose, a thin neck, and a reptilian head! Mary, who can't sleep because of the baby's crying, decides to leave Henry to take care of it. A nervous Henry begins to have weird visions of a lady in the radiator and a man in a planet. Next Henry learns that the baby is sick and goes through a nightmare full of bizarre imagery and weird violence. Henry is trapped in this nightmare. What will become of the baby and himself is unsure until the fantasti finale.
Review: To get it out of the way, this film is indeed the most bizarre movie I've ever seen. I was waiting to review a bizarre film simply because they're very hard to think about for me. Interpreting this film is harder than figuring out a Rubik's Cube with no matching colors. But the acting is superb. Jack Nance is the only actor I can think of who can pull it off. I have yet to see any other David Lynch film. But now I have a good idea of how his other films will go. Plus, with make up effects like that, I'm excited. This film used some of the best gore effects I've seen in a 70s horror. Especially the final scene. This movie isn't attractive in the slightest, and is definately hard to look at for me. But it's still brilliant. It's not ugly in the same sense as, say, Mr. Jingles. More in the sense of Begotten's grittiness and ugliness. An almost perfect film, and a must see for any fan of horror.
Final rating: 9/10
Last thoughts: See it to believe it. David Lynch has said that nobody's interpretation of the film has come close to his. So see if you can decipher the message, if possible. Or go in expecting to be entertained. Either way, you'll come out fulfilled.
[glow=red,2,300]
Title: Eraserhead
Taglines: In Heaven Everything Is Fine./Warning: the nightmare has not gone away/Where your nightmares end.../A dream of dark and troubling things.
US Release Date: 19 March 1977
Directed by: David Lynch
Written by: David Lynch
Running Time: 89 min | USA:108 min (approx.) (premiere version) [/glow]
Plot: Henry Spencer, a printer on vacation, goes to his girlfriend's home for dinner with her parents. But after dinner, he finds out that Mary, his girlfriend, has had a baby! They are hitched almost immediately. But the baby is deformed. No ears, no limbs, slits for a nose, a thin neck, and a reptilian head! Mary, who can't sleep because of the baby's crying, decides to leave Henry to take care of it. A nervous Henry begins to have weird visions of a lady in the radiator and a man in a planet. Next Henry learns that the baby is sick and goes through a nightmare full of bizarre imagery and weird violence. Henry is trapped in this nightmare. What will become of the baby and himself is unsure until the fantasti finale.
Review: To get it out of the way, this film is indeed the most bizarre movie I've ever seen. I was waiting to review a bizarre film simply because they're very hard to think about for me. Interpreting this film is harder than figuring out a Rubik's Cube with no matching colors. But the acting is superb. Jack Nance is the only actor I can think of who can pull it off. I have yet to see any other David Lynch film. But now I have a good idea of how his other films will go. Plus, with make up effects like that, I'm excited. This film used some of the best gore effects I've seen in a 70s horror. Especially the final scene. This movie isn't attractive in the slightest, and is definately hard to look at for me. But it's still brilliant. It's not ugly in the same sense as, say, Mr. Jingles. More in the sense of Begotten's grittiness and ugliness. An almost perfect film, and a must see for any fan of horror.
Final rating: 9/10
Last thoughts: See it to believe it. David Lynch has said that nobody's interpretation of the film has come close to his. So see if you can decipher the message, if possible. Or go in expecting to be entertained. Either way, you'll come out fulfilled.