Eraserhead 15

"★★★★★ – a true original" – Time Out

★★★★★ – Guardian

★★★★★ – Eye for Film

The ultimate experience from the twisted world of midnight-movie surrealism, David Lynch’s deranged debut changed everything that would follow it.

Henry Spencer (Jack Nance) is the hapless hero in a dystopian industrial slum. When his girlfriend unexpectedly gives birth to a wormlike creature Henry tries to do the right thing, but crushed by his responsibilities as a father and oppressed by the gloom of his apartment the dark world of dreams start to crash in on his psyche.

Screening as part of Surrealism Season - in parternship with University of Leicester to mark the centenary of the publication of the Surrealist Manifesto in Paris.