Eraserhead's not a movie I'd drop acid for, although I would consider it a revolutionary act if someone dropped a reel of it into the middle of Star Wars.

| Jan 23, 2025

Monster babies, like concentration camps, are bad subjects for jokes. Although Lynch's taste is objectionable, his directorial talent is unquestionable.

| Jan 23, 2025

I guess you can sell some people on anything as long as you tell them it's avant-garde.

| Jan 23, 2025

David Lynch, the 33-year-old writer/producer/director of this artful, puzzling monstrosity, has totally bypassed the time-honoured techniques and almost comforting clichés of scaring people in darkened theaters.

| Jan 23, 2025

Moviegoers who lean toward curios or who like to follow the careers of potentially important directors from the start should give this one a try. As for the 99.5 percent of the world -- don't say you weren't warned.

| Jan 23, 2025

David Lynch says he had a happy childhood and he never has nightmares, but he's turned out a movie which is the pure substance of nightmares.

| Jan 23, 2025

What you have to say, like it or not, is that there's a real film-maker behind it, bold enough to use black and white with the confidence of someone who really believes in it, and to back the visuals with a sound-track that seeks to confound you.

| Jan 22, 2025

It's beautiful and strange, with its profoundly disturbing ambient sound design of industrial groaning, as if filmed inside some collapsing factory or gigantic dying organism.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 14, 2014

What makes Eraserhead great -- and still, perhaps the best of all Lynch's films? Intensity. Nightmare clarity. And perhaps also it's the single-mindedness of its vision.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 14, 2014

A murkily pretentious shocker.

| Oct 14, 2014

David Lynch has "cleaned up" his freaky feature debut, but don't worry - it's still an amazing industrial nightmare.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 12, 2008

David Lynch's 1977 feature debut Eraserhead is one of those rare films that really deserves its cult status - a nightmarish, heavily symbolic story set in a postapocalyptic future.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 12, 2008

The mind boggles to learn that Lynch labored on this pic for five years.

| Sep 25, 2007

Some of it is disturbing, some of it is embarrassingly flat, but all of it shows a degree of technical accomplishment far beyond anything else on the midnight-show circuit.

| Sep 25, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 24, 2007

Lynch, as he does with all his films, refuses to explain anything, although he does say that he has yet to read an interpretation that matches his.

| Jan 17, 2007

What a masterpiece of texture, a feat of artisanal attention, an ingenious assemblage of damp, dust, rock, wood, hair, flesh, metal, ooze.

| Jan 17, 2007

Lynch's remarkable first feature is a true original.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 26, 2006

Compared to the rest of Lynch's work this is a crude assemblage of ideas that would be used to far greater effect in later movies.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 17, 2001

This is a classic, no matter how comfortable it is to watch.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 1, 2000