| | Eraserhead DVD (5 Customer Reviews)
| Category | Dramas DVDs, Horror Movies, Science-Fiction/Fantasy Videos, Recommended, Essential Cinema, Cult, Monsters, Disturbing, Surreal, Pregnancy | | Starring | Jack Nance, Judith Roberts, Joseph Allen, Jeanne Bates, Allen Joseph, Jennifer Lynch, Charlotte Stewart | | Director | David Lynch | | Art Director | David Lynch | | Cinematographer | Herbert Cardwell | | Composer | David Lynch, Fats Waller, Peter Ivers | | Director of Photography | Frederick Elmes | | Editor | David Lynch | | Producer | David Lynch | | Screenwriter | David Lynch |
From auteur David Lynch comes this nightmarish classic in which a young man living in an industrial wasteland comes to grips with parenthood. Henry Spencer (Jack Nance) inhabits a surreal world rife with grotesque characters and bizarre creatures, not the lest of which is is own child, a hideously deformed, squalling aberration. A study in the macabre, this early film features the arresting imagery and dark humor characteristic of Lynch's work. Special featurings include a full-length featurette and trailers. David Lynch's surreal, existentialist nightmare has become a bona fide cult classic. In a nameless, menacing industrial city, a shy man learns that he is about to become a father. When the baby is born, he is shocked to discover that it is a ghastly mutant. The baby's endless crying torments the parents night and day, putting a strain on their relationship, which is nearing an end. Eventually the man sees his only chance of escape in murdering the child. Lynch's ERASERHEAD has rightly earned its place in cinema history, with its terrifying mood and stunning visuals. Director David Lynch's feature-film debut is a masterpiece of the macabre and grotesque. Reportedly a reaction to the news that he was about to become a father, Lynch's ERASERHEAD follows a sensitive young man as he struggles to cope with impending parenthood. Henry Spencer (Jack Nance) lives in a hopeless industrial landscape, lusting after the beautiful woman who lives in the apartment across the hall. After his girlfriend, Mary (Charlotte Stewart), informs him of her pregnancy, he is forced to eat dinner with her extremely odd family. The baby is eventually born, only it isn't a human baby at all; it's a deformed creature that resembles a lizard. The baby won't stop crying, a horrifyingly piercing wail that drives Mary insane. Left alone with the baby, Henry is serenaded by a woman who lives inside his radiator, and soon he decides to murder his baby in order to stop the nightmare once and for all. Five years in the making, ERASERHEAD contains all of the trademark attributes of a Lynch film--haunting visuals, an ethereal score, unsettling sound design, and, most notably, a black sense of humor--creating a world onscreen that is exhilarating, terrifying, and unique. ERASERHEAD was director David Lynch's first feature-length film, following two shorts, THE ALPHABET and THE GRANDMOTHER.
Lynch began production on the film while a student at the American Film Institute.
Eraserhead Quotes/Excerpts: "In heaven, everything is fine."--Lady in the Radiator (Laurel Near) Eraserhead Reviews: "...ERASERHEAD is about that which can't be described. The only way to understand it is to be able to say, I saw it..."
-- Entertainment Weekly Staff, Entertainment Weekly "The first movie to catch that particular dreamlike yet thoroughly American sensibility that has come to be known as 'Lynchian'..."
-- Premiere Staff, Premiere "[S]low and surreal..."
-- Barry Walters, Rolling Stone
This is the only Joseph Allen video. Stars also making their debut in this video: Allen Joseph. Eraserhead | List Price | $29.95 (You save $10.40) | | Studio | Ryko Distribution | | Orig Year | 1976 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  2012  | | CD Universe Part number | 7010395 | | Catalog number | 1 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Jan 10, 2006 | | Rating | R (MPAA) | | Running Time | 89 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen; Remastered; Black & White | | Movie Details | B&W; Widescreen; Remastered; Black & White; Limited Edition |
Eraserhead Movie Review Average Rating: (3.8 out of 5 stars)   A must-see art film from David Lynch
While uncomfortable to view at times, this film is unique and provides insites into the vision of Lynch through this ground-breaking early work in black and white. In recent years warnings have been made that the film may not be suitable for viewing by pregnant women. Visually striking in its creation of a different kind of inhumane industrial world. Characters seem like inside-out caricatures revealing deep human fears and anxieties.
Submitted by johnmh (Laramie, WY) 
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FANTASTIC!!
Riveting, indecipherable and absolutely bizarre.
Submitted by Louie (San Diego, Ca, USA)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 2 of 3 found this helpful.  In heaven everything is fine.
Watch it when you're robo-trippin. It will scare the doodie out of your pants.
Submitted by hedcheese (Oklahoma City, OK)
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 Widescreen is a cut-version
I compared the the Eraserhead 2000 Widescreen version to the one I have. The widescreen effect is just to cut bottom and to. About 13 minutes 30 for example you see Nance in total, a closet in the back up to the left side. But you didn't see his tie anymore. Eraserhead is filmed on 35 mm, not cinemascoop.
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Loved it but my girlfriend hated it
I fist saw "Eraserhead" in 1979 at a University Film Society festival, accompanied by my girlfriend. She was divorced and had custody of her only child, a daughter. Guys, DON'T take a woman to see this film under ANY circumstances, whether in a theatre or on homevideo (the remastered DVD+extras). Any woman with a child will NOT find this movie amusing, titillating, or macabre; rather, they will most likely hate you for the rest of your life for submitting them to what she described as "disgusting, revolting, and you call this ART??!!" Yes, it IS Art, and the ONLY David Lynch film that I would see on a repeat-basis. The rest of his filmography is pretentious, audience-baiting tripe; but I'm not an "ART" film student.
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Eraserhead Video Back Against the Wall, Chien Andalou, Christmas On Mars, Cowards Bend the Knee, Curse of the Seven Jackals, Fellini Satyricon, Freaks, It's Alive, Kingdom - Series One, L'Age D'Or, Little Otik, Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch, Rosemary's Baby, Topo, Wojaczek Purchase Eraserhead Movie To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Blue Velvet DVD (1986) Widescreen; Dubbed; Special Edition; Subtitled
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Director David Lynch follows up 1984's DUNE with this electrifyingly original thriller. After returning to his hometown of Lumberton, North Carolina, in order to visit his sick father, Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) discovers a severed human ear in a vacant field. He befriends Sandy Williams (Laura Dern), the daughter of the detective assigned to the case, and uses her information to investigate the situation himself. This leads Jeffrey to Dorothy Valence (Isabella Rossellini), a sexy nightclub singer whose involvement with a raving psychopath named Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper) begins to answer some important questions. Unfortunately, it also draws Jeffrey one step closer to Frank, a menacing figure who inhales from a nitrous-oxide tank and preaches the pleasures of drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. The film contains such a unique blend of comedy, drama, and suspense that the line between the three is blurred, making for an unsettling yet highly invigorating viewing experience. Lynch manages to create a world onscreen that is superficially normal but tinted with a weirdness that is all his own. It is this twisting of reality that makes BLUE VELVET an oddly familiar yet completely unique motion picture, featuring an unforgettable performance by Dennis Hopper.
Closed Captioned; Additional Footage; Bio/Filmographies; Soundtrack English; Soundtrack French; Soundtrack Spanish; English Subtitles
| | Freaks DVD (1932) Full Frame; Subtitled; Black & White
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When released theatrically in 1932, FREAKS was met with near universal disgust by critics and audiences alike, lasting in theatres for only a short time in the states and banned in England. The film stars Harry Earles as Hans, a suave midget who belongs to the sideshow of a seedy circus and who makes the mistake of falling in love with the beautiful Cleopatra, one of the "normal" circus performers. Learning that Hans is about to inherit a fortune, Cleopatra agrees to marry Hans even though she abhors him, planning to steal his money and get rid of him. When the freaks of the circus, who keep a watchful eye on Cleopatra, discover her scheme, they plan to exact an unforgettable revenge.
Far more unsettling than Browning's best known horror film, DRACULA, FREAKS has long been neglected due to its subject matter, even though it is a genuinely effective film. Gripping and often creepy, FREAKS manages to humanize its main performers, even looking at them with a sense of awe. By contrast, the "normal" performers in the film are largely hateful creatures who turn out to be much more repellant than their deformed colleagues. Both an excellent horror film and a unique look at the lives of sideshow performers, FREAKS is a chilling movie whose final ten minutes are some of the most harrowing in all of cinema.
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| | Pink Flamingos DVD (1972) Anniversary Edition
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Baltimore director John Waters's outrageous 1971 debut PINK FLAMINGOS burst onto the filmmaking scene like the ample flesh of its drag-queen star through the seams of a lamé dress. Conceived as a way to garner attention for Waters's fledgling career, this paean to bad taste certainly did just that--so much so that decades later, the film still retains the power to shock with its gleeful demolition of every known human taboo.
Waters's attempt at making the most vile and offensive movie ever made is aptly mirrored in his characters' competition for the title of "Filthiest Person Alive." Overweight transvestite and Waters muse Divine (aka Glen Milstead) stars as the current record holder, Babs Johnson, who lives in a trailer park with her trashy friend Cotton (Mary Vivian Pearce), incestuous son Crackers (Danny Mills), and mentally-stunted mother Edie (Edith Massey), who spends her time in a playpen and is obsessed with eggs. Vying for Babs's filthy title is evil middle-class couple Raymond (David Lochary) and Connie Marble (Mink Stole), who fund porno shops, sell heroin to grade-schoolers, and run a white-slave trade that involves kidnapping young women, imprisoning them in their dungeon-like basement, raping and impregnating them, and selling their babies to lesbian couples. In between, there's sex with chickens, whistling rectums, actual fellatio, and canine excrement--ensuring not only gross-out comedy par excellence, but a total assault on bourgeois respectability that rivals the comparatively mild critique of UN CHIEN ANDALOU or L'AGE D'OR. Disgusting, hilarious, and utterly fabulous, PINK FLAMINGOS is guerrilla filmmaking at its finest.
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| | Frank Zappa - The Dub Room Special DVD (1982)
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Starting in 1974 and continuing for nearly a decade, Frank Zappa's annual Halloween concerts were a New York City institution. When the avant-rocker scored a Top 40 hit with "Valley Girl" in 1982, he skipped that year's Halloween performance and instead chose to premiere a 90-minute documentary called FRANK ZAPPA'S DUB ROOM at New York's Ritz Theater. Produced, directed, written, conducted, composed, arranged, and performed by Zappa, the documentary was comprised of two concerts--the 1981 Halloween show at the Palladium, and the December 1974 KCET television special, A TOKEN OF HIS EXTREME--as well as animation by claymation artist and longtime Zappa collaborator, Bruce Bickford. Released on home video in 1982, the Dub Room special has long remained a hard-to-find rarity, but this program rewards Zappa devotees with a presentation of the documentary in its entirety (albeit in a slightly different version after being remastered in 1992) for a fitting tribute to rock's ultimate renaissance man.
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| | Short Films Of David Lynch DVD (1966)
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An oddball collection of short films from the master of oddity, David Lynch, this release provides a compelling look at some of Lynch's rarely seen shorter works, including "The Grandmother," a story about a boy who grows a grandmother as an alternative to his abusive parents; "The Amputee," a film about an amputee attempting to write a letter; and "The Alphabet," an eerie animation from Lynch's student days. Covering films from the 1960s to the 1990s, this release goes inside the peculiar sensibility and aesthetics of one of our most idiosyncratic filmmakers.
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| | Inland Empire DVDs (2006)
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With INLAND EMPIRE, David Lynch--creator of such mind-bending works as ERASERHEAD and LOST HIGHWAY--delivers his most avant-garde, abstract, and impenetrable vision yet. A three-hour fever nightmare of a motion picture, INLAND EMPIRE takes the basic structure of Lynch's 2001 masterpiece, MULHOLLAND DRIVE, and spins it even further out of control. A blonde actress (Laura Dern) is preparing for her biggest role yet, but when she finds herself falling for her co-star (Justin Theroux), she realizes that her life is beginning to mimic the fictional film that they're shooting. Adding to her confusion is the revelation that the current film is a remake of a doomed Polish production, 47, which was never finished due to an unspeakable tragedy. And that's the only the beginning. Soon, a seemingly endless onslaught of indescribably bizarre situations flashes across the screen: a sitcom featuring humans in bunny suits, a parallel story set in a wintry Poland, a houseful of dancing streetwalkers, screwdrivers in stomachs, menacing Polish carnies, and much, much more. By the time the film's electrifying closing-credit sequence arrives, even diehard Lynch fans will be gasping for air. What most glaringly differentiates INLAND EMPIRE from Lynch's previous work is the format on which it was shot. This is the first time that he has chosen to shoot on digital video, as opposed to film, and while the decision is jarring at first, the grainy imagery nonetheless casts a creepy, haunting spell. Laura Dern's multi-fractured performance is downright heroic. She gives the film the human grounding that it so desperately needs. Not for the fragile or timid, INLAND EMPIRE is a full-blown assault to the senses.
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| | Blood Suckers/Blood Thirst DVD (1971) Special Edition
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BLOODSUCKERS: While on vacation in Greece, a college professor falls under the spell of a lascivious female vampire who is the leader of a coven of perverted socialites. When his friends come to his rescue, they too become enmeshed in a web of unholy terror. BLOOD THIRST: The blood-drained bodies of women are being discovered all over Manila, so the Police contact a sex-crimes expert to investigate. Soon he discovers the cult of the "Golden Goddess," a monstrous woman who stays young through ritualistic killings.
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| | They Crawl DVD (2001) Widescreen
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The brother of a recently deceased computer whiz teams up with a detective (Tamara Davies) to look into his brother's death. Meanwhile, more dead bodies are discovered with their internal organs missing. Clues lead to Lazarus, a scientist with ties to a cult, and it is discovered that he has a gigantic army of genetically-mutated cockroaches.
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| | Broadway Theatre Archive - Prince Of Homburg DVD (2003)
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The Broadway Theatre Archive presents another program in its series of televised plays from the 60s to the 80s. In Heinrich von Kleist's historical play, Prussia is fighting against the invading Swedish army. A Prussian nobleman goes against his military orders, and though his efforts defeat the invading forces, he is nonetheless sentenced to death. This poetic and touching play stars Frank Langella in the lead role.
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| | Close To Leo DVD (2003) Widescreen; Subtitled
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Twenty-one-year-old Leo (Pierre Mignard) is the eldest son of a tightknit rural French family headed by youthful parents who love him and accept his homosexuality. When the family learns of Leo's HIV-positive status, things become much more challenging for the loving group--especially for youngest brother Marcel (Yannis Lespert), who is being excluded from serious family discussions about Leo's condition due to his age. But Marcel overhears one particular conversation and learns the devastating news on his own, leading the 11-year-old on a quest for the truth even as his family continues to pretend that nothing is wrong. This warm French drama explores the boundaries of family love during times of crisis from a unique and very moving perspective.
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| | Haque DVD (2007) (Import)
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