Eraserhead
Where your nightmares end...
First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
- Director
- David Lynch
- Signature
- Tension · Craft · Wonder
- Worldwide
- $7M
Who's in it
Cast
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16 billed performers
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What It's About
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First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Eraserhead returned 71.0× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $100,000
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $7M
- Release date
- Sep 28, 1977
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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