Flick: Eraserhead

Are you a big fan of dream sequences? Perhaps you'd like to give yourself a headache? Maybe you're a fan of avant garde films? If you answered yes to any of the preceding questions, you should check out David Lynch's Eraserhead at River Oaks Theatre. Like much of Lynch's material, Eraserhead promises to warp your brain with a hard to follow story, astounding visuals and lots of stuff to make you go hmmm.

In a nut shell, the film is the story of a wildly coiffed man who is battling workplace stress, father's an ugly baby and has weird dreams.

Houstonist wasn't a fan of the film, but then we've never really gotten into Lynch per se (except for this line). But, the flick got an 89% on Rotten Tomatoes and was added to the National Film Registry in 2004, which means that they deem it to have "cultural, historical, or aesthetic significance." Huh. Uhhh, O.K. We'll take their word for it.

Wanna make up your own mind? Good. Ticket info is below.

Eraserhead
Friday and Saturday at Midnight
River Oaks Theatre
2009 West Gray
(713) 866-8881

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Photo from Mitternachtskino's review of the film.