ERASERHEAD

OCTOBER 9

Pioneering auteur David Lynch's first feature is hard to forget. A surrealist body-horror film with sexual undercurrents shot in black-and-white, renowned for its sinister experimental sound design, Eraserhead became a legendary cult movie on the midnight movie circuit. A perfect first foray into Lynch's world during Spooky Season.

Henry (John Nance) resides alone in a bleak apartment surrounded by industrial gloom. When he discovers that an earlier fling with Mary X (Charlotte Stewart) left her pregnant, he marries the expectant mother and has her move in with him. Things take a decidedly strange turn when the couple's baby turns out to be a bizarre lizard-like creature that won't stop wailing. Other characters, including a disfigured lady who lives inside a radiator, inhabit the building and add to Henry's troubles.