Eraserhead (just the first time round though)
Was 16 when I first saw it. Thought it was the best thing I'd ever seen, the best thing I was likely to see, ever ever ever.

Saw it again when I was 26. It disturbed me somewhat.

Saw it again when I was 30. Christ I am never, ever ever going to watch that again. What the hell was I thinking? That Lynch guy must have been doing some serious junk at film school.

From Wikipedia:

"At the start of the film, Henry, who has not heard from his girlfriend, Mary for a while, mistakenly believes that she has ended their relationship. He is invited to have dinner with Mary and her parents at their house".

- Fine, that looks good.

"During dinner, Henry learns that Mary has just had a baby after an abnormally short pregnancy. Henry is then obliged to marry her".

- right OK, sounds like a plan, but what was with the the pigeons they were eating? What's with them moving and bleeding?

"Mary and the baby move into Henry's one-room apartment. The baby is hideously deformed and has a reptilian appearance: a large snout-nose with slit nostrils, a pencil-thin neck, eyes on the sides of its head, no ears, and a limbless body covered in bandages. It continually whines throughout the night".

- Er.... hang on.

"A sleep-deprived Mary abandons Henry and the baby. After Mary leaves, Henry must care for the baby by himself, and he becomes involved in a series of strange events. These include bizarre encounters with the Lady in the Radiator a woman with grotesquely distended cheeks who lives in his radiator ; visions of the ominous Man in the Planet; and a sexual liaison with his neighbor, the Beautiful Girl Across the Hall".

- Now I see why I liked it when I was 16.

"The film's title comes from a dream sequence occurring during the last half hour of the film. In it, Henry’s head detaches from his body, sinks into a growing pool of blood on a tile floor, falls from the sky, and, finally, lands on an empty street and cracks open. A young boy finds Henry's broken head and takes it to a pencil factory, where Paul, the desk clerk, summons his ill-tempered boss to the front desk by repeatedly pushing a buzzer. The boss, angered by the summons, yells at Paul, but regains his composure when he sees what the little boy has brought. The boss and the boy carry the head to a back room where the Pencil Machine Operator takes a core sample of Henry's brain, assays it, and determines that it is a serviceable material for pencil erasers. The boy is then paid for bringing in Henry's head. The Pencil Machine Operator then sweeps the eraser shavings off of the desk and sends them billowing into the air".

- nuff said really

After waking from this dream, Henry looks out his window and sees two men fighting in the street. He then seeks out the Beautiful Girl Across the Hall, but he finds her at her apartment with another man. The baby begins to laugh, and Henry takes a pair of scissors and cuts open the baby's bandages, which turn out to be part of its flesh (or simply what is holding all of its organs together). By cutting the bandages, Henry splits open the baby's body and exposes its vital organs. As the baby screams in pain, Henry stabs its lung with the scissors. This causes the apartment’s electricity to overload, and as the lights flicker on and off, an apparition of the baby's head, grown to an enormous size, materializes in the apartment. Henry is then seen with eraser shavings billowing around behind his head. The last scene features Henry being embraced by the Lady in the Radiator. They are bathed in white light, and white noise builds to a crescendo, then stops as the screen goes black. The credits then begin to roll, signifying the end of the film.

- best not look it up on YouTube kids.



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Dusk till dawn comes a pretty close second - two films in one and you never saw the second one coming. What the shuddering cock!?!?!?!
( buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Thu 17 Jul 2008, 15:43, 2 replies)

...?
You realise that this question is about the best movie you've seen? It doesn't sound like you liked either of those very much.
(clumsyeloquence is a girl, Thu 17 Jul 2008, 16:04, closed)

I Loved it when I first saw it
Gives me the creeps now.

Dusk till Dawn wins it then purely on the two for the price of one thing.
( buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Thu 17 Jul 2008, 16:11, closed)