Additional information for Eraserhead, which has a domestic theatrical release set for September 28, 1977. The film is being distributed by Unknown and has not yet been rated. Eraserhead has a total running time of 85 minutes.
15
UK
16
Argentina
M
Australia
K-14
Finland
18
Ireland
15
South Korea
15
Sweden
Unrated
USA
18
West Germany
R
Canada
16
Iceland
13
Spain
PG
Singapore
-16
France
16
Netherlands
15
Norway
M/16
Portugal
14
Chile
R-18
Japan
16
Germany
85min
Cabeza borradora
Argentina
Cabeza borradora
Mexico
Cabeza borradora
Spain
Eraserhead
France
Eraserhead
Greece
Eraserhead
Slovenia
Eraserhead - La mente che cancella
Italy
Eraserhead 2000
USA
Gardenback
USA
Glava za brisanje
Serbia
Glowa do wycierania
Poland
Labyrinth Man
France
No Céu Tudo É Perfeito
Portugal
Radírfej
Hungary
March 19, 1977
USA
September , 1977
France
September 28, 1977
USA
November , 1977
USA
December 31, 1978
Poland
September 07, 1979
West Germany
November , 1979
West Germany
April 11, 1980
Australia
May 13, 1981
Spain
September , 1981
Japan
January 30, 1982
Italy
February , 1982
Portugal
December 22, 1983
Netherlands
February , 1985
West Germany
January 01, 1993
Japan
July 02, 1993
Sweden
July 30, 1993
Denmark
September 03, 1993
UK
September 17, 1993
Australia
February 25, 1994
Finland
July 08, 1994
Portugal
July , 1995
Czech Republic
July , 1996
Korea
January 26, 2001
France
October 07, 2005
Iceland
October 11, 2007
Greece
February 28, 2009
Japan
March 13, 2010
USA
September 15, 2011
Netherlands
March 29, 2013
Taiwan
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Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
The film starts with a man named Henry Spencer (Jack Nance) hovering in space. His brain, represented by a rocky planet visible through his head, hovers behind him. In Henry's brain there is a Man in the Planet (Jack Fisk) who pulls levers to control Henry's functions which represents his central nervous system. This scene is going to represent Henry having sexual intercourse with a woman named Mary X (Charlotte Stewart). Henry's mouth opens and a spermatozoon slides its way out, then rests erect at Henry's side. The Man in the Planet pulls several levers and launches the sperm into a water hole which represents the vagina of Mary X. Some time passes and a creature is born in the depths and rises to the surface.The next scene starts with Henry looking at the camera. He then proceeds to walk home to his apartment through a slum in an industrial wasteland. When he gets to the lobby, he checks the mail and finds there is none. He then takes the elevator up to his apartment. Before he gets inside, the Beautiful Girl Across the Hall (Judith Anna Roberts) informs him that Mary X called and invited him to dinner. While at the apartment, Henry puts on music, takes off his shoes and puts his socks on the radiator since they were wet from stepping in a puddle while walking home. He then stares at the radiator which represents thoughts of suicide. We see that there are electrical wires around the radiator. In the background is a picture of a mushroom cloud which shows the setting to be a post-apocalyptic future. He then throws a stone in a pot of water which is meant to be a superstitious gesture, and looks at a picture of Mary.He then goes over to Mary's house to meet her family and have dinner. Before he goes in, they mention Henry and Mary's strained relationship. While Henry is talking with Mrs. X (Jeanne Bates), it's revealed that Henry is a printer but is "on vacation". Henry meeting the family is portrayed as very awkward throughout the scene. The family attempt to eat the artificial chickens and salad but everything goes wrong when the chickens start twitching and bleeding when Henry tries to carve them. After dinner, Mrs. X interrogates Henry about whether or not he had pre-marital sexual intercourse with Mary. He confirms that they did and it's revealed that Mary had a deformed, premature baby. Mrs. X orders that they must get married as soon as possible and pick up the baby from the hospital.The next scene cuts to after they get married and get the mutated, alien baby home. Henry arrives, checks the mail to find a worm in a stylish black box. Henry hides this from Mary first in his pocket and later in a cupboard next to the bed. He gets home and contemplates suicide again, this time more seriously. The baby cries continually until Mary can't stand it and goes back home, leaving Henry to deal with the baby.Henry has trouble sleeping and hears the baby stop crying. He gets out of bed to check its temperature and after the temperature reads fine he looks back at the baby seeing that it is covered in sores and apparently sick. After he sets up a vaporizer, the Beautiful Girl Across the Hall comes over and seduces him. He sees the lady in the radiator (Laurel Near) again on a stage singing "everything being fine in Heaven" while mutated worms fall from the ceiling and she steps on them. Henry goes on stage and a dead tree in some dirt is wheeled out which makes him appear uneasy and he steps to the side of the stage where he acts agitated. As he plays with a railing staring off into space, his head pops off and the crying mutated baby takes its place. His head forms a pool of blood and eventually falls into it, re-appearing out of the sky and landing in a alley. A little boy (Thomas Coulson) sees the head and takes it to an eraser factory where his head is made into erasers. He than apparently wakes up.Upon waking up he hears something outside his apartment. He then sees the Beautiful Girl Across the Hall being intimate with a man named Mr. Roundheels. When he gets back inside his apartment, the baby makes strange cackling sounds as though it's laughing at Henry. Henry, apparently agitated moves over to the baby and begins to cut off the bandages covering its body causing the baby to breathe heavily. To Henry's horror, the baby's body splits open as it was either too fragile or Henry had cut into it. Henry decides to stab into the baby's heart with the scissors and collapses on the other side of the room. The baby's innards flow over the electrical wires which then produce sparks and short-circuit the lights. He sees the baby's head hovering about on a now very long neck, as the lights flicker in and out the baby's head becomes gigantic and it engulfs the camera. The man in the planet is seen pulling a lever and apparently being electrocuted. We than see Henry embrace the woman in the radiator.
David Lynch
Director(s)
David Lynch
Writer(s)
David Lynch
producer
Fred Baker
executive producer (uncredited)
Producer(s)
David Lynch
Composer(s)
Henry Spencer (as John Nance)
Jack Nance
Mary X
Charlotte Stewart
Mr. X
Allen Joseph
Mrs. X
Jeanne Bates
Beautiful Girl Across the Hall (as Judith Anna Roberts)
Judith Roberts
Lady in the Radiator
Laurel Near
Landlady (long version)
V. Phipps-Wilson
Man in the Planet
Jack Fisk
Grandmother
Jean Lange
The Boy
Thomas Coulson
Bum
John Monez
Paul
Darwin Joston
The Boss (as Neil Moran)
T. Max Graham
Pencil Machine Operator
Hal Landon Jr.
Little Girl (as Jennifer Lynch)
Jennifer Chambers Lynch
Little Boy
Brad Keeler
Person Digging in the Alley (long version)
Peggy Lynch
Person Digging in the Alley (long version)
Doddie Keeler
Man with Cigar
Gill Dennis
Man Fighting
Toby Keeler
Mr. Roundheels (as Raymond Walsh)
Jack Walsh
Director(s)
Writer(s)
producer
Fred Baker
executive producer (uncredited)
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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