Films & Events

Part of the Spooky Spawn: Reproductive Body Horror and Perverse Parenthood series with the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at USC. All presentational and marketing materials were designed by South Carolina Honors students from Dr. Elliott’s Gender and Monstrosity in Horror Films class.

A favorite underground film of the late 1970s, Eraserhead is a cult classic that cemented David Lynch’s reputation as a legendary director. The film centers around Henry, a new father forced to take care of his deformed and incessantly wailing infant. Set in a world of industrial gloom, unsettling sounds, and bizarre imagery, Eraserhead plunges the audience into a nightmarish reality that makes them feel as suffocated and anxious as Henry himself. Psychologically disturbing and ominous, Eraserhead is a haunting social commentary on the anxieties of unplanned parenthood.

“David Lynch has created what can only be called a surrealistic masterpiece. Uncompromising in style, this black-and-white film is not merely nightmarish: it is a nightmare captured on celluloid.” – scrapsfromtheloft.com

1977. 89 min.