Eraserhead
DREADPICK / MOVIE

Eraserhead

1977 David Lynch 89 MIN

First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.

HORROR CENTRALITY
85 /100

Eraserhead centers on nightmare imagery, body horror (the mutant baby), and pervasive dread; fear drives the viewing experience and defines its identity, though it sits within an art-house context rather than a conventional genre label.

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DREADPICK SUMMARY

Best for viewers looking for a very scary, high-tension, atmosphere-heavy, psychological, slow-burning and low-gore horror movie.

DREADPICK
SCARINESS 90
TENSION 80
DREAD 90
GORE 20
ATMOSPHERE 90
PSYCHOLOGICAL 90
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DIRECTOR David Lynch
STUDIO AFI
RELEASE 1977
RUNTIME 89 min

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