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Summary:

An obscure man with a vertical head of hair is living with his spaced-out girlfriend and their fetus-like child. By the end of the film, Henry is decapitated and processed into erasers in this bizarre horror film which closely approaches a nightmare.

Contributors:

Lynch, David, 1946- , presenter, screenwriter, film producer, film director, film editor

Nance, Jack , actor

Stewart, Charlotte, 1941- , actor

Joseph, Allen , actor

Bates, Jeanne , actor

Roberts, Judith Anna , actor

Near, Laurel , actor

Phipps-Wilson, V. , actor

Elmes, Frederick , director of photography

Cardwell, Herbert , director of photography

Ivers, Peter , composer, singer

Waller, Fats, 1904-1943 , performer

Christie, Thomas A. , interviewer, filmmaker

Coulson, Catherine, 1943-2015 , interviewee

Keeler, Toby , interviewer

Rodley, Chris , writer of supplementary textual content

Absurda (Firm) , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Criterion Collection (Firm) , film distributor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fds

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Main Work:

Eraserhead (Motion picture)

Related Works:

Cinéma de notre temps (Television program)

Related Series:

Criterion collection; [volume] 725

Subjects:

Parent and child — Drama

Surrealism — Drama

Parent and child

Surrealism

Genres:

Motion pictures

Horror films

Experimental films

Feature films

Fiction films

Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Drama

System Details:

DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen 16x9, 1.85:1 presentation; Dolby Digital stereo.

Performers:

Cast: John Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph, Jeanne Bates, Judith Anna Roberts, Laurel Near, V. Phipps-Wilson.

Production Credits:

Camera and lighting, Frederick Elmes & Herbert Cardwell ; sound, Alan R. Splet & David Lynch ; edited by David Lynch ; Lady in the radiator song composed and sung by Peter Ivers ; pipe organ by "Fats" Waller.

General Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1977.
Special features: Disc 1: New 4K digital restoration; Short films (with introductions by David Lynch): Six men getting sick (1967, 1 min. film loop), The alphabet (1968, 4 min.), The grandmother (1970, 34 min.), The amputee (1974, 5/4 min.), Premonitions following an evil deed (1995, 58 sec.); TV calibration; Trailer. Disc 2: 1979 (interview with director David Lynch and cinematographer Frederick Elmes shot by filmmaker Tom Christie); 1982 (trailer for Eraserhead produced by twins Douglas Brian Martin and Steven M. Martin, with cinematography by Frederick Elmes); 1988 (director David Lynch and actor Jack Nance take a drive to one of the locations for Eraserhead in this excerpt from an episode of the French television program Cinéma de notre temps, recorded in 1988 and broadcast April 23, 1993); 1997 (footage featuring director David Lynch, actors Jack Nance and Charlotte Stewart and director's assistant Catherine Coulson revisiting locations for the film, interviewed by Toby Keeler); 2001 (85 min. documentary about the making of the film made by David Lynch in 2001); 2014 (interviews with director's assistant Catherine Coulson, actors Charlotte Stewart and Judith Anna Roberts, and cinematographer Frederick Elmes). Booklet features an interview with Lynch from filmmaker and writer Chris Rodley's 1997 book Lynch on Lynch.

Physical Description:

2 videodiscs (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (63 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).

Physical Characteristics:

4 3/4 in.

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical; stereo; Dolby Digital 2.0

Video Characteristics:

laser optical; NTSC

Digital Characteristics:

video file; DVD video; region 1

Call Numbers:

ERA 1977 DVD

ISBNs:

9781604658965
1604658967

Other Standard Numbers:

Universal Product Code: 715515125819
Publisher Number, The Criterion Collection: CC2392D (set)
Publisher Number, The Criterion Collection: CC2392D-1 (disc 1)
Publisher Number, The Criterion Collection: CC2392D-2 (disc 2)

OCLC Numbers:

1037234752
885812139 [Invalid]