Eraserhead
by David Lynch1h291972United States
Recommended byBong Joon-Ho, Stanley Kubrick, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Atom Egoyan, Amat Escalante, Jessica Hausner, Jaco Van Dormael, Abel Ferrara, Lucile Hadzihalilovic
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Henry Spencer lives in a hopeless industrial landscape. After his girlfriend, Mary, informs him of her pregnancy, he is forced to eat dinner with her extremely odd family. The baby is eventually born, only it isn’t a human baby at all; it’s a deformed creature that resembles a lizard.
Credits
- Production Compagny : American Film Institute (AFI), Libra Films
- Distributor : MK2
- Photo Director : Frederick Elmes, Herbert Cardwell
- Sound Recorder : Alan R. Splet
- Original Music : Peter Ivers, David Lynch
- Director : David Lynch
- Scenario : David Lynch
- Set Decoration : David Lynch
- Editing : David Lynch
- Producer : David Lynch
Technical details
- Printed format : 35 mm
- Sound mix : Stéréo 2.0
- Year of production : 1972
- French release date : 17 décembre 1980
- Category : Feature film
- Color : Black and White
- Language : English
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