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TopicI'm going to watch a Horror Movie every day in October
PrivateBiscuit1
10/21/20 12:39:03 AM
#227:


DAY 20.2: Eraserhead
On HBO Max

Okay, serious review I guess. But still what the fuck.

Eraserhead is a movie I can't even begin to summarize.

I usually like David Lynch. I thought I knew what i was in for. It's just a David Lynch movie, I thought. It'll be weird.

I don't know what the fuck I just watched. There is a semblance of a story there and I spent most of the time trying to piece together the themes for the absolute fucking acid trip of a film this was.

I don't feel like I was tremendously entertained, but more just... intrigued. Because in David Lynch's mind, I'm sure this made perfect sense. But I'm here vaguely understanding it. I still don't feel like I do entirely. It's just a really, really bizarre movie that I just don't understand.

Where this gets points is the actually good directing. David Lynch, for all his fucking strangeness, knows how exactly to film a movie. And the cinematography is on point.

Another plus is the soundtrack. It's a droning, industrial sound that is just... like, unnerving. You feel unnerved just listening to it throughout the entire movie. It really adds onto it when the other noise is this horrific noise from HIS CHILD OR WHATEVER THE FUCK THAT THING IS or the probably 20 lines of dialogue.

The imagery is really just... unsettling. Even set pieces. They feel uncomfortable. They feel dirty. They feel strange and makes you feel like you shouldn't be there. And the absolute strangeness of what you're witnessing is just difficult to even look at. But it's so good at giving you that sense of uneasiness.

You could make this movie and have it less... I guess incoherent? You could do that and have it be really good. But... instead we just get this. It gets 5/10 purely on directing, soundtrack, and imagery. I literally cannot fathom scoring it more than that. I don't know what I watched.

Only watch this movie if you want to see what is one of the strangest movies ever made. Other than that, if you're just looking for something to watch, I probably don't recommend it.

Rating: 5/10

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