It took over five years and the tapping of every resource for David Lynch to fund his first feature-length film. The results of this painstaking process are obvious; the film is resonant in its visual renderings. Set in the decay of a post-industrial wasteland, Eraserhead delves into the heart of human trauma: unfulfilled sexual desire, fornication, abandonment, the chaos of fatherhood, the alienation of modernity, fate, and the destructive nature of sin. It’s a quiet, surrealist journey into one of Lynch’s mad, living paintings, and the brush strokes are fully neurotic.
—Persona Loy