Eraserhead

It reviews better than it plays — admired more than it is enjoyed.

• “See Eraserhead once and it’ll lodge itself firmly in some dank recess of your brain and refuse to vacate.”

  Mike D'Angelo, The A.V. Club · 100

• “Gothically shot in black and white and numerous shots that have influenced the next generation of directors, this is a classic, no matter how comfortable it is to watch.”

  Steve Beard, Empire · 100

• “Eraserhead is a singular work of the imagination, a harrowing, heartbreaking plunge into the darkest recesses of the soul.”

  Tom Huddleston, Time Out · 100

• “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; Lynch's complete control over this material, where, working on a shoestring, he served as director, producer, writer, editor and sound designer.”

  Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune · 100

• “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.”

  Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian · 100