How David Lynch Made His First Film - The Story of Eraserhead

[@vampolascott36]

What a great documentary. The more I learn about Lynch, the more I admire him. He’s the quintessential artist.

[@davidpictures6809]

Don’t have much of value to say but comments help videos get into the algorithm and I feel like this video is underrated so here you go.

[@Serai3]

I remember going to the Nuart Theater in 1979 to see Eraserhead with my best friend. We came out feeling very, very stoned, and looked at each other wondering what the hell we just saw. (That little film of Lynch with the Woody dolls ran before the movie for years.)

[@matthewcrome5835]

This film inspired The Shining. It was apparently one of Kubrick's favorite movies and he showed it to all of the cast and crew pre-filiming. Which makes me wonder if he showed it to Danny Lloyd and the child actresses who played the infamous twins because apparently Kubrick shielded the children from the horror aspect of The Shining. Considering Eraserhead is still scary to me as an adult, and The Shining is infamously scary, I would wager he didn't show Eraserhead to the children.

[@dr.strangelove.miguelaleja2825]

Reason 100 percent.

[@daveg4036]

Incredibly insightful documentary. Looking forward to rewatching Eraserhead after a 25 year gap.

[@kseniav586]

I was lucky enough to see Eraserhead in a movie theater during a Lynch retrospective last year. It's one of the best movie experiences I've ever had (that rant about watching on a phone was spot-on). I read about the making of the movie in the Lynch on Lynch book, but it's nice to get even more details on how the movie was made. Thanks for this amazing video!

[@littlestone1541]

"like trying to pull a steel cat out of a glass jar". I'll be using that as a figure of speech.

[@adamgorelick3714]

I have to say, the thought of ever finding out how Lynch created the baby [an extreme unlikelihood] fills me with a different kind of darkness. It IS magical and should remain a mystery. And, movie monster or not, I always felt sorry for it. Eraserhead is simply a perfect fim, a perfect expression of an artist's vision - which can only be said of the truly great films. No matter how many times I see it, the ending - with the incredible sound design - deeply moves me. It's a dark film in every sense, but it's also beautiful and luminescent. I have my own interpretation of Eraserhead, but I'm glad it's still alive for me - not like something under an electron microscope that had to die in being analyzed.

[@matthewcrome5835]

In my interpretation, the baby was never deformed, at least not in the way it was portrayed. Maybe it had a birth defect or was born premature or something, but the alien appearance of the baby was almost entirely in Henry's imagination, as were other things like the Lady in the Radiator (a symbol to him of escape from his suffocating life), the dream sequences, and Henry and his neighbor melting into the couch (though they may have actually been having sex). This makes his murder of the baby at the end all the more disturbing - he killed an innocent infant who to him was the most repulsive thing imaginable. The reason he was driven to madness was because of the dystopian world around him and the way he was forced into fatherhood with the mother leaving him. But that's just my interpretation- there's a billion ways to intepret this, it really is a Rorschach blot of a film.

[@hpbecraft]

Pretty sure it's a cow fetus.

[@Bungle_]

"They went on a three year pilgrimage to europe wich lasted only 15 days due to David wasting all their savings on cokes and cigarrettes" Never in my life have i before felt more identified with a man

[@Jimmy1982Playlists]

🤣🤣🤣🎯💯

[@Dale_Blackburn]

The coke that implied there is coca- cola, not the drug cocaine. FYI.

[@Bungle_]

@@Dale_Blackburn yeah i know, i don't like cocaine at all but i'm a soda addict

[@RADFLIKINCRRQT13]

Although funny sounding when put that way, it's not technically true. They ended their trip because David claimed Europe was too scenic and beautiful and it left him feeling uninspired

[@marylaplante7261]

I enjoyed this! Hope more people find the video. Eraserhead is great fun and I always considered it as a semi-autobiographical film from Mr. Lynch.

[@rad4924]

This deserves a million more views.

[@eoncatalyst]

David Lynch is one of my favorite directors! This review is really good!

[@finalbreath15]

My favorite moment "LOOK AT MY KNEES"

[@Toestubber]

Excellent perspectives on one of my favorite films. Subscribed.

[@afonsolucas2219]

I throughly enjoyed this video. Always on the lookout for more stuff about how Lynch made his films. Read his book, loved it, but still I love great videos about him, which there aren't many of-- Great job!

[@Mekhane]

Spectacular review on this. You deserve more subs for your level and quality of pacing, quality, and views.

[@ChruthFabian]

What a great find

[@aleslace]

Really great, well-researched video ❤️

[@johnrudy9404]

I think it was around 1977, or 78... Some guys I knew took me to see Rocky Horror. They were really into the creeps who did "acting" in the audience. I thought it was just silly. They went back a lot. Not me. But, a poster for Erasurehead was in the lobby. I was intrigued. Never saw the movie, but knew it must be something. Now, years later...I know I was onto something.

[@casualobserver5124]

"Acting" lol

[@binbats8626]

This is amazing! Thank you :)

[@KidFresh71]

Meditation changed my life. I'm a huge admirer of Mr. Lynch not just for his stunning contributions to the world of film; but also for his continued work to remove silly stigmas from mediation and bring the practice into the mainstream.

[@RallyTheTally]

Underated video! Really well produced!

[@JuandoRego]

damn nice video man! I can't believe you only have 8 subs. I would like to give some criticism on the voice you use to read David Lynch's quotes, was it supposed to be an imitation of his real voice?

[@swampdonkey4919]

Haha! Yes, his Lynch impersonation is awful. The accent kinda ruins it, huh?

[@JuandoRego]

@@swampdonkey4919 idk, its not that annoying but the video would be better without it

[@swampdonkey4919]

@@JuandoRego Yeah, not really a big deal, just a little distracting.

[@pommelhorsepommelhorse8731]

wonderful, thank you. Have you seen Primer?

[@matthewcrome5835]

I had to explain this film to my cousin, who is coincidentally also named Henry, because he started to grow his hair out like Jack Nance and I thought it was hilarious

[@jspaingreene6350]

Very interesting... thank you!

[@observer_music]

I just watched blue velvet, great timing lol and great vid, the pull to go through lynch filmography is strong

[@Jimmy1982Playlists]

Oh, it's a MUST for any real film nut or artist! _Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Lost Highway_ (which is a personal favorite), _Mulholland Dr., The Elephant Man, Twin Peaks,_ of course... and on and on and on. So great! I envy anyone who hasn't seen the filmography yet and is about to 🥰

[@paulfroelich1024]

Listening to this, it makes it so much easier to see his influence on Louis CK's tv show on FX (in which of course Lynch had a role).

[@mrpinkdev]

Thank you, subscribed. Hope to see a long video about Jodorowsky someday

[@McLir]

Well done! There was some great stuff there that I hadn't seen before. You might consider the unusual production of After Hours. Martin Scorsese, after some box office failures, suddenly had The Last Temptation of Christ's production cancelled only days prior to shooting. (We know, now, he eventually got it made, but he didn't know it then.) So he was seriously considering leaving filmmaking. After Hours allowed him to to have fun making movies again. I think of it as a Corman School film - and the funniest satiric black comedy since Roger Corman and Charles B. Griffith invented the form with A Bucket of Blood (which I believe After Hours references). Thanks for the fun film doc!

[@saberserpent1134]

The "baby" most closely resembles a llama fetus, and was given a proper burial after it was no longer needed for the film.

[@MFDOOOOM]

Great vid, nice job.

[@lauradicarlo4126]

Well done 💚

[@milascave2]

"She had your baby!" "Mom! They're not sure, it's a baby!"

[@rorysimpson8716]

Nobody has the holy grail of how they did that horrifying fish baby puppet

[@TheGriftcast]

Liked video for the disclaimer.

[@JSB1882]

I've seen this film several times until video replaced the revival movie houses. That truly was the saddest time for film. Each time I never questioned anything that I saw on the screen because it was just beautiful to look at and who cared about a plot. Plus I always feel that David Lynch is just so full of bull sh** when he's interviewed. Guy Maddin is another one of those film makers that I just want to watch the films.

[@zachcashman7236]

It seems so obvious now, but I never realized that his head was being turned into erasers. I was so consumed by the dream that this simple logic, the reason for the title of the film, completely escaped me. I saw it as being more symbolic; the soul was being corrupted by the industrial world

[@themedia1271]

Bruh if the baby is supposed to be a literal interpretation of his feelings towards being a father then I feel bad for his daughter

[@raoulmontefiore4803]

I always thought Eraserhead was a summer romance. Comparable with Grease, which came out the same year.

[@saltlakeatrocity9771]

These first few short films are so overtly similar to early-youtube-era David Firth videos that its uncanny. I never knew how blatantly Firth recycled ideas Lynch originally came up with.

[@hankhill3256]

He Is a Painter Who paints On film 🎥.

[@booradley4237]

3:08 "Cokes and cigarettes" or "coke and cigarettes"? There's a major difference

[@tripjet999]

13:42 - Those idiots who wish to treat women as chattel and control their bodies deserve one of these in their own bodies.

[@hpbecraft]

I like this but the cutting of the quotes with the semi-yelling is a little much.

[@stephendeluca4479]

Here's a different take on the Lady in the Radiator: The lady in the radiator is NOT a figure of good. She lives secreted in a hellishly hot place. She's got exaggeratedly large "cheerful" cheeks, which punctuate an exaggerated "Lynchian" smile, which is never a good thing. She encourages him to kill his child and join with her. She is accompanied by the bright light, which you interpret as good, but Lucifer is light, too, and he's not good. In the end, Henry has given his soul to Lucifer by killing a child.

[@Occult_Gibbet]

Nightmarish themes of industrial gloom, insomnia, suicidal ideation, infanticide, parenthood, procreation, abortion, the afterlife and existential dread are all present in this film. The interpretations are endless.

[@2Guys1ControllerShow]

That voice of Lynch you are doing is really bad. Loved everything else.

[@RallyTheTally]

Wait, he killed a cat? That's awful! I didn't think he could do that my God.

[@michaelbilgerfilms]

no. cat was already dead. vet gave it to him already dead.

[@georgeskate78]

@@michaelbilgerfilmshe still dissected a dead cat and experimented on it’s body which is pretty messed up

[@PolarBear-rc4ks]

@@georgeskate78 but thats basically taxidermy, and I don't think he was playing with it moreso taking notes etc

[@georgeskate78]

@@PolarBear-rc4ks Your assuming that I agree with taxidermy. He didn’t just make notes. He experimented with it, a quote from Lynch himself “I dissected it. I put it in a bottle, but the bottle had a real small hole in it. The cat went in like a Slinky, but it got rigor mortis in there”. My point is no film or experimental purpose is worth the involvement of something being killed or being played about with whilst deceased

[@zak-a-roo264]

Saw it tripping balls off on LSD, heavy heavy experience, would not recommend unless you're into fucking with your psyche!!!

[@allsouls5997]

Yes erase but don;t use your head use your hand

[@leica_sl2]

iT'S MY WORST MOVIE OF ALL TIME NEXT TO "SALO"

[@Pataganja]

Bro please never do that David lynch impression ever again that was terrible 😂

[@jspaingreene6350]

I loved it... totally absurd like Lynch

[@777anakin]

This movie was stupid,full of itself and demonic.

[@roderickcortez138]

Trigger warning...LOL

[@romeuleite2262]

Where's the story of Eraserhead? this is a review of all of his films. Check your titles will you?? No wonder no one subscribes your channel. Be truthful

[@getthefffffoffme]

Starring a very young Gordon Ramsay