Eraserhead

Filmed intermittently over the course of a five-year period, “Eraserhead” stars Jack Nance as Henry Spencer, a factory worker in an unnamed industrial wasteland. Upon learning that a past romance has resulted in an impending pregnancy, he agrees to wed mother-to-be Mary and moves her into his tiny flat. Their baby is born hideously mutated, a strange reptilian creature whose piercing cries never cease. Mary soon flees in horror and disgust, leaving Henry to fall prey to the seduction of the girl across the hall. An intensely visceral nightmare, “Eraserhead” marches to the beat of its own slow, surreal rhythm. Henry's world is a cancerous dreamscape, a place where sins manifest themselves as bizarre creatures. (Ankeny Jason)