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By Jake Euker (172) for Filmcritic.com (3,164) on 30 Jun 2005

Eraserhead is a work of rare genius and real bravery; it's a comic nightmare we all have at once and whose meanings lay just out of reach…

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By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 19 Feb 2004

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

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By Jon Niccum (520) for Lawrence Journal-World (273) on 16 Oct 2003

Weird for weird's sake, but certainly memorable…

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By Luke Y. Thompson (1,447) for New Times (467) on 10 Jun 2003

The purest essence of David Lynch. The DVD may be $40, but it's worth it, particularly if you've never seen it…

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By Steve Beard (6) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 01 Jan 2000

Gothically shot in black and white and numerous shots that have influenced the next generation of directors, this is a classic, no matter how…

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By James O'ehley (345) for Sci-Fi Movie Page (492) on 01 Jan 2000

What's it about? I can hear you shout. Therein lies the rub: not much really…

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By Dennis Schwartz (5,456) for Ozus' World Movie Reviews (5,456) on 01 Jan 2000

I found this imaginative work to be one of the more interesting films to come out of the '70s…

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By Ted Prigge (137) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 01 Jan 2000

Offers so much to look into, and decipher for yourself…

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By Peter Sobczynski (1,159) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 06 Sep 1992

Here was a film that took elements that one might have encountered in other movies in the past—black humor, gore, surrealism, erotic imagery,…

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By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Mar 1991

Eraserhead is an extraordinarily raw film that’s not so much an announcement of its filmmaker’s obsessions, but a complete, intimate, and…

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By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 04 Dec 1982

Some of it is disturbing, some of it is embarrassingly flat, but all of it shows a degree of technical accomplishment far beyond anything else…

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By Tom Huddleston (600) for Time Out (7,510) on 28 Sep 1980

Eraserhead is a singular work of the imagination, a harrowing, heartbreaking plunge into the darkest recesses of the soul…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 05 Feb 1978

It's beautiful and strange, with its profoundly disturbing ambient sound design of industrial groaning, as if filmed inside some collapsing…

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