Eraserhead (1977)

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Wikidata Q11618, film, IMDb tt0074486, TMDB 985: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only film by that title; 1 more episode agrees.

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Who talked about it

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Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says it drew on another film or person.

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

Alien: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Eraserhead ⇒ Alien (the host's read). The gooey animatronic creature work in Alien and later films may trace back to Eraserhead.
    “I mean, the thought that comes to mind is, um, alien.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:29:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Devo: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Eraserhead ⇒ Devo (the host's read). Devo covered the Eraserhead song and played it live for a while.
    “Devo covered that song?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:02:39 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)

H.R. Giger: 1 line the maker said so ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Eraserhead ⇒ H.R. Giger (the maker said so: Giger says it was one of his big eye-opening moments). Giger called Eraserhead one of his big eye-opening moments, and Lynch later accused him of stealing his ideas.
    “H.R. Gigger, loves this movie, says it's one of his, like, you know, big eye-opening moments in his life”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:29:28 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)

Modest Mouse: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Eraserhead ⇒ Modest Mouse (the host's read). Modest Mouse is named among the bands who covered the Eraserhead song.
    “Modest mouse. Modest mouse.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:02:45 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)

The Meteors: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Eraserhead ⇒ The Meteors (the host's read). The Meteors are named among the bands who covered the Eraserhead song.
    “The meteors would do it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:02:47 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)

The Pixies: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Eraserhead ⇒ The Pixies (the host's read). The Pixies covered the Eraserhead song, on one of the John Peel records.
    “Yeah, the pixies, it's on one of the John Peel records, I think.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:02:53 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)

The Thing: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Eraserhead ⇒ The Thing (the host's read). Alien, Carpenter's The Thing and Cronenberg's work belong to a 70s-80s peak of gooey rubber and robotics that Eraserhead may have first synthesized.
    “We don't exactly know, but I feel like things like alien and the carpenter film, certainly the thing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:29:47 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Connected to

The Elephant Man: 4 lines craft ×2 contrast ×2

  1. contrast (contrast): Eraserhead → The Elephant Man. Dino wanted Elephant Man Lynch, not Eraserhead Lynch, though they share a lot.
    “But he's sort of saying like, I want the elephant man lynch, not eraser head lynch.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:08:39 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)

Twin Peaks: 2 lines craft ×2

  1. craft (craft): Eraserhead → Twin Peaks. The apartment's repeated floor patterns and curtain staging resemble the red room in Twin Peaks.
    “the styling of this building is very similar to a lot of the red room stuff in Twin Peaks”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:23:45 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Alien: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Eraserhead → Alien. The gooey animatronic creature work in Alien and later films may trace back to Eraserhead.
    “I mean, the thought that comes to mind is, um, alien.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:29:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Alien 3: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Eraserhead → Alien 3. Alien 3 resists categorizing because of its complicated production.
    “I think it's got to be a middle bucket just because of how complicated the birthing process.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:15:26 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Ben Barenholtz: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Ben Barenholtz → Eraserhead. Barenholtz phoned to buy the film halfway through a screening and it played 15 to 20 cities by word of mouth.
    “Halfway through the screening, he gets on the phone and is like, by this movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:44:31 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Blue Velvet: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Eraserhead → Blue Velvet. Both films come from Lynch's formative sense of darkness under the surface of suburbia and the unspoken, city life, women and fatherhood.
    “Eraserhead is clearly dealing with the same things, the idea of people living in a city, but also the relationships, like, with women, adult sexuality, being a father”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:24:47 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Buster Keaton: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Eraserhead → Buster Keaton. Henry is a nightmare version of a Keaton-style put-upon silent comedy hero.
    “He's like a nightmare version of like a Buster Keaton character, whatever.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:01:14 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Eraserhead → Close Encounters of the Third Kind. In the box office game, Close Encounters was the number one film in the Eraserhead period.
    “Number one of the box office is a film that came out in 1977.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:45:48 · David Sims (0.55 sure it was them)

Dances with Wolves: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Eraserhead → Dances with Wolves. Dances with Wolves is argued to be a rough draft of what Costner figured out later despite winning Best Picture.
    “this is a rough draft for what he fucking figured out later, even though the world responded to it at the time as masterpiece.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:14:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Dark Star: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Eraserhead → Dark Star. Dark Star is hard to place: important, but arguably a rough draft.
    “I think Dark Star, you could call a rough draft even though it...”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:13:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Devo: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Eraserhead → Devo. Devo covered the Eraserhead song and played it live for a while.
    “Devo covered that song?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:02:39 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)

Dune: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Dune → Eraserhead. Lynch is credited as sound designer on Eraserhead and The Elephant Man but not on Dune.
    “Not Dune.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 2:39:15 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Edward Scissorhands: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Eraserhead → Edward Scissorhands. Eraserhead is the same outsider idea as Edward Scissorhands in raw form, where Burton's film was reworked into a presentable studio picture.
    “And this is him just doing the pure raw expression version of basically the same idea.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:26:19 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)

Following: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Eraserhead → Following. Nolan's debut was made like Eraserhead, piecemeal with day-job actors, and Lynch became a guy for people with limited resources.
    “made his film in a similar way, and I don't know if he's ever cited Lynch being the inspiration”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:49:25 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

H.R. Giger: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): H.R. Giger → Eraserhead. Giger called Eraserhead one of his big eye-opening moments, and Lynch later accused him of stealing his ideas.
    “H.R. Gigger, loves this movie, says it's one of his, like, you know, big eye-opening moments in his life”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:29:28 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)

Jack Nance: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (people): Jack Nance → Eraserhead. Eraserhead's lead Jack Nance appears in the Harkonnen scenes eating a hard-boiled egg.
    “for the 1st time ever, I noticed Jack Nance, Eraser hit himself as in the background, eating a hard-boiled egg for some reason.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 2:18:01 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Mad Max: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Eraserhead → Mad Max. Mad Max is a debut where the director had all the tools right away, though not called a masterpiece, unlike Eraserhead which is.
    “Like that, that's where it's just like, yes, he had all the tools right away.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:10:05 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Martin: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Eraserhead → Martin. Eraserhead is impeccably shot, while Romero's Martin, shot on 16mm reversal, only gets the best scan of a rough image.
    “It's on a 4K disk, but like you're basically looking at the most high quality scan of a terrible raw image versus this movie is like impeccably shocked.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:24:11 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Modest Mouse: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Eraserhead → Modest Mouse. Modest Mouse is named among the bands who covered the Eraserhead song.
    “Modest mouse. Modest mouse.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:02:45 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)

Mulholland Drive: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Eraserhead → Mulholland Drive. One speaker came to Lynch through Mulholland Drive rather than Eraserhead.
    “It's not like Mulholland Drive was the Lynch movie that got me into David Lynch.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:59:57 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Old Dogs: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Eraserhead → Old Dogs. Suddenly discovering a child you didn't know about is the existential terror Old Dogs is built on, and Eraserhead has it too.
    “Of course, the kind of existential terror that an entire movie, like old dogs is built off of times two.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:28:24 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Piranha II: The Spawning: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Eraserhead → Piranha II: The Spawning. Piranha II is a classic rough-draft debut, unlike Eraserhead.
    “That's a classic rough draft.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:10:19 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Pleasantville: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Eraserhead → Pleasantville. A deadpan Lynchian-sounding plot summary of Pleasantville prompted the comparison; Pleasantville is praised but called too on the nose.
    “That movie is, I think, incredibly good.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:26:57 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Poor Things: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Eraserhead → Poor Things. Poor Things beat Jack Fisk's Flower Moon nomination at the Oscars.
    “Yeah, but they had to give it to poor things.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:34:09 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Roy Orbison: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Eraserhead → Roy Orbison. The 50s-60s weepy ballad style, Roy Orbison type music, recurs through Lynch's work.
    “Obviously, the sort of Roy Orbison type music recurs throughout his”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:25:38 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Shallow Grave: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Eraserhead → Shallow Grave. Shallow Grave sits in a middle bucket.
    “That's a 3rd bucket.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:15:11 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Eraserhead → Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. Star Wars was only number nine in the box-office game for the Eraserhead release period.
    “Not Star Wars, which is number 9 at the box.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:46:00 · David Sims (0.55 sure it was them)

The Cremaster Cycle: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Eraserhead → The Cremaster Cycle. At 14 the speaker took Eraserhead for something as hermetic as the Cremaster Cycle, though it is actually coherent.
    “No, when I was 14, I processed this as if it was the cremaster cycle.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:25:28 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Meteors: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Eraserhead → The Meteors. The Meteors are named among the bands who covered the Eraserhead song.
    “The meteors would do it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:02:47 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)

The Parent Trap: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): The Parent Trap → Eraserhead. Parent Trap is argued as a masterpiece on the debut list, though the other host calls it merely good and Nancy Meyers' easiest film to dub a masterpiece.
    “Easiest film to dub a masterpiece.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:11:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Philadelphia Story: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Eraserhead → The Philadelphia Story. Lynch calls Eraserhead his Philadelphia story, minus Jimmy Stewart.
    “It just doesn't have Jimmy Stewart in it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:47:50 · David Lynch (0.50 sure it was them)

The Pixies: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Eraserhead → The Pixies. The Pixies covered the Eraserhead song, on one of the John Peel records.
    “Yeah, the pixies, it's on one of the John Peel records, I think.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:02:53 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)

The Thing: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Eraserhead → The Thing. Alien, Carpenter's The Thing and Cronenberg's work belong to a 70s-80s peak of gooey rubber and robotics that Eraserhead may have first synthesized.
    “We don't exactly know, but I feel like things like alien and the carpenter film, certainly the thing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:29:47 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Thief: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Eraserhead → Thief. Thief is an example of a debut where the director arrives fully formed, in the same bucket as Eraserhead.
    “But I'm like, thief, guy arrives fully formed.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:10:23 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (imagery echo): Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 → Eraserhead. Orb imagery in Part 8 is traced to Lynch's earlier orb imagery such as Eraserhead.
    “Sure, there's like eraser heads. Right, things like that.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 0:17:19 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Wild at Heart: 1 line verdict ×1

  1. verdict (verdict): Eraserhead → Wild at Heart. Eraserhead is argued to be Lynch's funniest film, or at least tied with Wild at Heart.
    “It's probably this or Wild at Heart.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:31:08 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): Eraserhead → Mulholland Drive. One speaker came to Lynch through Mulholland Drive rather than Eraserhead.
    “It's not like Mulholland Drive was the Lynch movie that got me into David Lynch.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:59:57 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

contrast (12)

  1. contrast (contrast): Eraserhead → The Elephant Man. Dino wanted Elephant Man Lynch, not Eraserhead Lynch, though they share a lot.
    “But he's sort of saying like, I want the elephant man lynch, not eraser head lynch.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:08:39 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Dune → Eraserhead. Lynch is credited as sound designer on Eraserhead and The Elephant Man but not on Dune.
    “Not Dune.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 2:39:15 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (contrast): Eraserhead → Mad Max. Mad Max is a debut where the director had all the tools right away, though not called a masterpiece, unlike Eraserhead which is.
    “Like that, that's where it's just like, yes, he had all the tools right away.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:10:05 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. contrast (contrast): Eraserhead → Piranha II: The Spawning. Piranha II is a classic rough-draft debut, unlike Eraserhead.
    “That's a classic rough draft.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:10:19 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  5. contrast (contrast): Eraserhead → Thief. Thief is an example of a debut where the director arrives fully formed, in the same bucket as Eraserhead.
    “But I'm like, thief, guy arrives fully formed.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:10:23 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. contrast (contrast): The Parent Trap → Eraserhead. Parent Trap is argued as a masterpiece on the debut list, though the other host calls it merely good and Nancy Meyers' easiest film to dub a masterpiece.
    “Easiest film to dub a masterpiece.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:11:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  7. contrast (contrast): Eraserhead → Dark Star. Dark Star is hard to place: important, but arguably a rough draft.
    “I think Dark Star, you could call a rough draft even though it...”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:13:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  8. contrast (contrast): Eraserhead → Dances with Wolves. Dances with Wolves is argued to be a rough draft of what Costner figured out later despite winning Best Picture.
    “this is a rough draft for what he fucking figured out later, even though the world responded to it at the time as masterpiece.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:14:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  9. contrast (contrast): Eraserhead → Shallow Grave. Shallow Grave sits in a middle bucket.
    “That's a 3rd bucket.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:15:11 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  10. contrast (contrast): Eraserhead → Alien 3. Alien 3 resists categorizing because of its complicated production.
    “I think it's got to be a middle bucket just because of how complicated the birthing process.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:15:26 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  11. contrast (contrast): Eraserhead → Edward Scissorhands. Eraserhead is the same outsider idea as Edward Scissorhands in raw form, where Burton's film was reworked into a presentable studio picture.
    “And this is him just doing the pure raw expression version of basically the same idea.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:26:19 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
  12. contrast (contrast): Eraserhead → The Elephant Man. The Elephant Man is a deeply tragic, not funny film, unlike Eraserhead.
    “Watching the elephant man's a deeply trapped film. It's quite beautiful, but it's not really funny.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:31:35 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

craft (6)

  1. craft (craft): The Elephant Man → Eraserhead. Both are movies about sensitive weirdos in arch black and white.
    “he's made two, like, movies about sensitive weirdos and the pain of existing in society that are shot in like very arch black and white.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:07:04 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Eraserhead → The Elephant Man. Both films carry a sound designer credit for David Lynch.
    “It is sound designed by David Lynch. Which makes sense.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 2:39:02 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft): Eraserhead → Martin. Eraserhead is impeccably shot, while Romero's Martin, shot on 16mm reversal, only gets the best scan of a rough image.
    “It's on a 4K disk, but like you're basically looking at the most high quality scan of a terrible raw image versus this movie is like impeccably shocked.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:24:11 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. craft (craft): Eraserhead → Following. Nolan's debut was made like Eraserhead, piecemeal with day-job actors, and Lynch became a guy for people with limited resources.
    “made his film in a similar way, and I don't know if he's ever cited Lynch being the inspiration”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:49:25 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  5. craft (craft): Eraserhead → Twin Peaks. Lynch still relates emotions through images the way Eraserhead does, which the speaker saw again in Twin Peaks: The Return.
    “He's still doing this stuff.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:15:16 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. craft (craft): Eraserhead → Twin Peaks. The apartment's repeated floor patterns and curtain staging resemble the red room in Twin Peaks.
    “the styling of this building is very similar to a lot of the red room stuff in Twin Peaks”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:23:45 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

industry (4)

  1. industry (industry): Eraserhead → Poor Things. Poor Things beat Jack Fisk's Flower Moon nomination at the Oscars.
    “Yeah, but they had to give it to poor things.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:34:09 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): Ben Barenholtz → Eraserhead. Barenholtz phoned to buy the film halfway through a screening and it played 15 to 20 cities by word of mouth.
    “Halfway through the screening, he gets on the phone and is like, by this movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:44:31 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. industry (industry): Eraserhead → Close Encounters of the Third Kind. In the box office game, Close Encounters was the number one film in the Eraserhead period.
    “Number one of the box office is a film that came out in 1977.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:45:48 · David Sims (0.55 sure it was them)
  4. industry (industry): Eraserhead → Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. Star Wars was only number nine in the box-office game for the Eraserhead release period.
    “Not Star Wars, which is number 9 at the box.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:46:00 · David Sims (0.55 sure it was them)

lineage (9)

  1. lineage (lineage): Eraserhead → Devo. Devo covered the Eraserhead song and played it live for a while.
    “Devo covered that song?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:02:39 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): Eraserhead → Modest Mouse. Modest Mouse is named among the bands who covered the Eraserhead song.
    “Modest mouse. Modest mouse.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:02:45 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (lineage): Eraserhead → The Meteors. The Meteors are named among the bands who covered the Eraserhead song.
    “The meteors would do it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:02:47 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (lineage): Eraserhead → The Pixies. The Pixies covered the Eraserhead song, on one of the John Peel records.
    “Yeah, the pixies, it's on one of the John Peel records, I think.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:02:53 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)
  5. lineage (lineage): Eraserhead → Buster Keaton. Henry is a nightmare version of a Keaton-style put-upon silent comedy hero.
    “He's like a nightmare version of like a Buster Keaton character, whatever.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:01:14 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  6. lineage (lineage): Eraserhead → Roy Orbison. The 50s-60s weepy ballad style, Roy Orbison type music, recurs through Lynch's work.
    “Obviously, the sort of Roy Orbison type music recurs throughout his”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:25:38 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  7. lineage (lineage): Eraserhead → Alien. The gooey animatronic creature work in Alien and later films may trace back to Eraserhead.
    “I mean, the thought that comes to mind is, um, alien.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:29:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  8. lineage (lineage): H.R. Giger → Eraserhead. Giger called Eraserhead one of his big eye-opening moments, and Lynch later accused him of stealing his ideas.
    “H.R. Gigger, loves this movie, says it's one of his, like, you know, big eye-opening moments in his life”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:29:28 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
  9. lineage (lineage): Eraserhead → The Thing. Alien, Carpenter's The Thing and Cronenberg's work belong to a 70s-80s peak of gooey rubber and robotics that Eraserhead may have first synthesized.
    “We don't exactly know, but I feel like things like alien and the carpenter film, certainly the thing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:29:47 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (people): Jack Nance → Eraserhead. Eraserhead's lead Jack Nance appears in the Harkonnen scenes eating a hard-boiled egg.
    “for the 1st time ever, I noticed Jack Nance, Eraser hit himself as in the background, eating a hard-boiled egg for some reason.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 2:18:01 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

theme (6)

  1. theme (imagery echo): Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 → Eraserhead. Orb imagery in Part 8 is traced to Lynch's earlier orb imagery such as Eraserhead.
    “Sure, there's like eraser heads. Right, things like that.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 0:17:19 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme): Eraserhead → The Cremaster Cycle. At 14 the speaker took Eraserhead for something as hermetic as the Cremaster Cycle, though it is actually coherent.
    “No, when I was 14, I processed this as if it was the cremaster cycle.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:25:28 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. theme (theme): Eraserhead → The Philadelphia Story. Lynch calls Eraserhead his Philadelphia story, minus Jimmy Stewart.
    “It just doesn't have Jimmy Stewart in it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:47:50 · David Lynch (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. theme (theme): Eraserhead → Blue Velvet. Both films come from Lynch's formative sense of darkness under the surface of suburbia and the unspoken, city life, women and fatherhood.
    “Eraserhead is clearly dealing with the same things, the idea of people living in a city, but also the relationships, like, with women, adult sexuality, being a father”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:24:47 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  5. theme (theme): Eraserhead → Pleasantville. A deadpan Lynchian-sounding plot summary of Pleasantville prompted the comparison; Pleasantville is praised but called too on the nose.
    “That movie is, I think, incredibly good.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:26:57 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  6. theme (theme): Eraserhead → Old Dogs. Suddenly discovering a child you didn't know about is the existential terror Old Dogs is built on, and Eraserhead has it too.
    “Of course, the kind of existential terror that an entire movie, like old dogs is built off of times two.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:28:24 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (verdict): Eraserhead → Wild at Heart. Eraserhead is argued to be Lynch's funniest film, or at least tied with Wild at Heart.
    “It's probably this or Wild at Heart.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:31:08 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Eraserhead: Lynch sold the DVD himself off the Absurda website; it arrived in a weird square box with a loose sleeve.
    “Lynch sold it himself off of the Absurda website, and it came in a weirdly shaped box.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:17:38 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Eraserhead: TLA Video, a Philadelphia chain, had a Lynch shelf; Eraserhead was the VHS movie the cool older teens had seen.
    “They had a lynch shelf.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:18:05 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Eraserhead: The 21-page script read like a short, so Lynch snuck a long shoot past the AFI.
    “He kind of snuck it past people in a way.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:48:39 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Eraserhead: Shot on weekends over years, the production cost Lynch his first marriage within the first year.
    “So his 1st marriage does not survive the 1st year production on Eraserhead.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:50:03 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Eraserhead: A financier friend of Malick watched scenes, stood up trembling and screamed that people don't act like that.
    “People don't talk like that.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:51:26 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Eraserhead: Lynch told Nance to play Henry as a blank; the more expression emptied out, the closer they got.
    “The more you can empty out the closer we're getting.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:52:56 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Eraserhead: Lynch never says how the baby was made; guess is organs from the butcher.
    “he won't really talk about how they made the baby or what it's made of.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:56:15 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Eraserhead: The group's recurring idea of the 'dang-ass freak canon': the film is the key text.
    “is this the key text?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:59:23 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about Eraserhead: The chicken-carving scene: the host says the movie heightens ordinary dinner discomfort by 10 percent; Griffin is not an egg fan.
    “I'm heightening this thing by 10%.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:05:52 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about Eraserhead: The hosts note the character's hair stands up like a pencil eraser, the literal source of the title.
    “His hair is the eraser.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:38:57 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about Eraserhead: After rejections from Cannes' Directors' Fortnight and the New York Film Festival, a bad Variety review at Filmex led Lynch to cut about 20 minutes.
    “Lynch then cuts about 20 minutes out of the movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:43:34 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  12. fun, about Eraserhead: Its release strategy mirrored its making: a roaming roadshow of midnight screenings rather than a single premiere.
    “Its release strategy was very similar to the way in which it was made.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:45:18 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

As said on the shows, not checked against the real credits.