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Eraserhead

1977 · TMDB 7.3

Directed by David Lynch

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

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David Lynch's debut feature, a nightmarish portrait of a man haunted by his deformed child in an industrial wasteland, where the body itself becomes a source of dread.

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