John Malkovich lends his intense glare to David Lynch‘s Eraserhead protagonist Henry Spencer in the new video from the Playing Lynch series, which reimagines the iconic director’s weirdest ...

David Lynch's Eraserhead (1977) was familiar to me long before I saw ... under the grainy black and white images telling the bizarre story of hapless loner Henry Spencer (Jack Nance), they take on a ...

Eraserhead featured Jack Nance as Henry Spencer, Charlotte Stewart as Mary X, Jeanne Bates as Mrs. X, Allen Joseph as Mr. X, and Jean Lange as Grandmother. The story follows Henry Spencer ...

Despite its indecipherable reputation, Eraserhead actually has a deceptively simple plot: Henry Spencer (Jack Nance, rocking an I-just-stuck-my-hand-in-an-electrical-socket hairdo) lives in a ...

Jumpy Henry Spencer (Nance) lives in an urban dystopia ... life and its clash with his artistic aspirations was a factor. Eraserhead resonates with many more themes: its preoccupation with sex ...

But let’s just say “Eraserhead” could be shown along with “The Shining” as part of a Satan’s Father’s Day double bill. The title character, Henry, is a glum, passive man who learns ...

Henry Spencer is a hapless factory worker on his vacation when he finds out he's the father of a hideously deformed baby. He moves in with his unhappy malcontent girlfriend, and the new parents ...

Sure, the bizarrely deformed baby in Eraserhead (“Mother, they’re still not sure it is a baby!”) looks repulsive and vulnerable, but its incessant mewling is what truly shreds Henry Spencer ...