Eraserhead

Eraserhead is a 1977 independent surreal-horror film written and directed by David Lynch. The film stars Jack Nance and Charlotte Stewart. Eraserhead polarized and baffled many critics and movie-goers, but has become a cult classic. In 2004, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. Lynch has described his film as a "dream of dark and troubling things." The setting of the film is a slum in the heart of an industrial center. It is rife with urban decay, rundown factories, and a soundtrack composed exclusively of the noises of machinery. Henry Spencer (Jack Nance) is a printer who is "on vacation." He gives off an air of nervousness, but makes few direct complaints about his life situation. At the start of the film, Henry, who has not heard from his girlfriend, Mary X (Charlotte Stewart) for a while, mistakenly believes that she has ended their... full article at wikipedia