A boy finds it, bringing it to a pencil factory to be turned into erasers.Īwakened, Spencer seeks out the Beautiful Girl Across the Hall, but finds her with another man. Spencer's head falls from the sky, landing on a street and breaking open. After a sexual encounter with the Beautiful Girl Across the Hall, Spencer has another vision: the Lady in the Radiator sings ("In Heaven Everything Is Fine") as Spencer watches his own head fall off, revealing a stump underneath that resembles the child's face. Spencer begins experiencing visions, again seeing the Man in the Planet, as well as the Lady in the Radiator, who sings to him as she stomps upon miniature replicas of Spencer's child.
Spencer attempts to care for the child, and he learns that it struggles to breathe and has developed painful sores. The sound drives Mary hysterical, and she leaves Spencer and the child. The infant refuses all food, crying incessantly and intolerably. The couple move into Spencer's one-room apartment and begin caring for the child-a swaddled bundle with an inhuman, snake-like face, resembling the spermatozoon-like creature seen earlier. Mary, however, is not sure if what she bore is a child. She tells him that Mary has had his child and that the two must marry. After dinner, Spencer is cornered by Mary's mother, who tries to kiss him. At the dinner table, he is asked to carve a chicken that Mary's father has "made" the bird moves and writhes on the plate and gushes blood when cut. That night, Spencer visits Mary's home, conversing awkwardly with her mother. Spencer leaves his groceries in his apartment, which is filled with piles of dirt and dead vegetation. He is stopped outside his apartment by the Beautiful Girl Across the Hall, who informs him that his girlfriend, Mary, has invited him to dinner with her family. In an industrial cityscape, Spencer walks home with his groceries. A spermatozoon-like creature emerges from Spencer's mouth, floating into the void. The Man in the Planet is moving levers in his home in space, while the head of Henry Spencer floats in the sky. In 2004, the film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Its surrealist imagery and sexual undercurrents have been seen as key thematic elements, and its intricate sound design as its technical highlight. Since its release, it has earned positive reviews and is considered a cult film.
Initially opening to small audiences and little interest, Eraserhead gained popularity over several long runs as a midnight movie.
The soundtrack features organ music by Fats Waller and includes the song " In Heaven", written and performed for the film by Peter Ivers, with lyrics by Lynch. Lynch and sound designer Alan Splet spent a year working on the film's audio after their studio was soundproofed. It was shot on several locations owned by the AFI in California, including Greystone Mansion and a set of disused stables in which Lynch lived. It nonetheless spent several years in principal photography because of funding difficulties donations from Fisk and his wife Sissy Spacek as well as Nance's wife and crew member Catherine Coulson kept production afloat. Starring Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Jeanne Bates, Judith Anna Roberts, Laurel Near, and Jack Fisk, it tells the story of a man (Nance) who is left to care for his grossly deformed child in a desolate industrial landscape.Įraserhead was produced with the assistance of the American Film Institute (AFI) during Lynch's time studying there. Shot in black and white, it was Lynch's first feature-length effort following several short films. Lynch also created its score and sound design, which included pieces by a variety of other musicians.
Eraserhead is a 1977 American surrealist body horror film written, directed, produced, and edited by David Lynch.
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