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EPISODE · Sep 2, 2022 · 50 MIN

Eraserhead (1977)

from Subversive Cinema

A story about parenthood, anxiety, a strange baby, and who the hell knows.Listen in as me and new guest, Jon, stare into the magical radiator that is this film and try to divine just what is going on here.Written and directed by seminal auteur David Lynch (Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive), Time Out called the film "a singular work of the imagination, a harrowing, heartbreaking plunge into the darkest recesses of the soul," while the New York Times said it was "a murkily pretentious shocker." Sounds like someone at the NY Times is butthurt they didn't make a weird movie that inspired countless filmmakers...It tells the story of Henry (Jack Nance, Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet) as he learns he has a premature (mutant) baby while his girlfriend/mother of his child Mary (Charlotte Stewart, Twin Peaks, Tremors) is constantly on edge. She leaves Henry to care for the child alone and he sees visions of a strange woman in his radiator. It gets much, much stranger from here.The film is currently available on HBO Max, Amazon Prime, DVD and Blu-Ray.

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