David Lynch's bizarre, groundbreaking film debut

Five years in the making, Eraserhead is David Lynch’s most popular and best-known early film. Shot in black and white, the film unfolds in a lifeless, industrial wasteland where the protagonist, Henry Spencer, tramps the empty streets in a confused dream. Visiting his hysterical girlfriend and her freak show family, Henry soon discovers he’s the father of a mutant alien child. Lynch called Eraserhead “a dream of dark and troubling things”, and Henry inevitably falls deeper into an unconscious nightmare until a beautiful interloper offers him hope of escape.