Eraserhead
Movie • 1977 • Fantasy
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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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Movie surrounds parents mistreating a baby. The baby is shown and heard in multiple states of distress. Also weird visions/dream type sequences where fetal versions of the baby are squashed or thrown violently. The baby is not supposed to look normal/human, but I reccomend skipping this if anything baby-adjacent is difficult.
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Is there domestic violence?
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Addiction
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A cigarette early on
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Is an animal sad?
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Baby creature is in a lot of distress, crying for help like a baby usually would
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Are there snakes?
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The fetus version of the baby in the strange visions/dreams looks snakelike, but doesn't move like one. There is also a worm but it just looks like a small piece of play doh
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Is there a dead animal?
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Some “man-made” chickens that bleed a bit too much
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Are animals abused?
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There's a strange scene featuring bloody chickens
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Rumor that the baby is a real-life dead rabbit
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It's not nearly as extreme as most movies, but there is a scene where the main character's girlfriend's mother starts kissing his neck, and he is clearly uncomfortable with it.
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Bodily Harm
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Not too excessive, it probably helps as the movie is in black and white. But there is like full oragans of the baby creature shown, it gets stepped on which makes it splatter out on the floor, the whole floor gets coverd in blood.. i dont remember any other spesific times
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Is there body horror?
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There’s a woman with very swelled up cheeks and personally it terrified me.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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I guess this is the way of a dimly lit surreal movie, but I don't remember any...
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Does a head get squashed?
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No, but a head does fall off, get found by a kid, and sold to an pencil factory which uses the brains to make erasers.
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Are any teeth damaged?
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There are some mouth horror scenes, special effects with the baby, but no teeth damage
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Is someone crushed to death?
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The baby creatures in one of the dreams gets stepped on by the dream woman, this ends in them dying in the dream. You see her stepping on them and them being crushed under her feet.
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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With scissors, but we don't see a clear break of skin
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Is there amputation?
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I don't think so? Maybe decapitation but it just falls off
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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The baby wheezes with sickness. At one point its mouth is forceably covered and you hear it struggle.
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Is someone stabbed?
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The “baby” is stabbed at the end of the movie.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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the baby tends to shake but it isn't explicitly a seizure. it could remind someone of one
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Is there eye mutilation?
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There is a closeup of someone rubbing her eye with gross sound effects, not technically mutilation but honestly gross af
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Children
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The baby looks a lot like male genitals when unwrapped but not really in a Weird way
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Does a kid die?
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Barely a “child”, but enough for it to be considered one.
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
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Disability
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Family
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Technically, yes, but it's not presented in the typical fashion that most people would likely find triggering.
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Does someone cheat?
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One scene where he cheats on his wife, as well as the person he cheated with also with another man, and the radiator girl he also is with at the end, but I genuinely have no idea how much of that is part of the dream sequences
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Fear
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Not in the traditional sense, but there are a handful of scenes in which things cut to unsettling imagery very abruptly. There aren't any of the more standard jumpscares, however.
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Is trypophobic content shown?
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I think that someone with severe tryptophobia would be disturbed by the woman in the radiator’s cheeks.
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Gross
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The baby spits up a dark liquid around 1 hour 23 minutes in. Other than that no other issues
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Is there audio gore?
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Heavy on the sound effects. Not super gory but everything you see, you hear. Mainly squelching.
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Does someone spit?
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The baby has a hard time being fed, so sort of some spitting
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Large-scale Violence
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This movie takes place before 9/11
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Medical
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Looks like it for a second but it's a glass thermometer
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Nothing heavily implied, but there is a sort of vision or dream that makes it seem like death is welcome and a happier alternative
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Is there misophonia?
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Lots of sound effects, but there's specifically a scene where a character is kept awake, hearing the loud and detailed sound of another character rubbing their eye.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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I don't think dysmorphia in the self image way
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Some distressed crying from both mother and child, but doesn't seem like an attack
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Some people think that he kills himself at the end of the movie, but this is not shown.
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Does a baby cry?
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Driving conflict of the movie is a crying and wailing baby. The sound is upsetting but triggered me less than many other cries. Most of it is "fussing" noises.
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Is there screaming?
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The baby creature screams the way a baby in distress screams. I think the mother screams too.
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Are there underwater scenes?
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There is a scene where 2 kissing characters are slowly lowered into a pool of liquid inside of a bed.
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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I'm just stating this for all the pregnancy/baby related categories-- If baby or pregnancy stuff bothers you, steer clear of this movie.
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Does someone miscarry?
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Successful but extremely premature birth
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Is there childbirth?
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not onscreen however
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Are there abortions?
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No, but some weird dreamlike sequences of him pulling fetal versions of the baby out of a woman from under the covers. Also sequences that involve killing them, but they just fall from the sky.
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Prejudice
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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I think people are putting yes due to the themes? There's a theme of deformity in multiple characters, showing it as disturbing or unwanted, especially in that of a baby or fetus
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Is there sexual content?
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Someone is questioned on "whether they had sexual intercourse," using that language. A character randomly has a moaning fit, could be interpreted as sexual. Same character nonconsensually starts kissing someone's neck. Later on there is a sex scene, but it is shown in an abstract sense. A character seduces another, they make out on screen, and sink into a pool.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Sexism
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Does someone have a stroke?
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Near the beginning, his girlfriend wife thing has a seizure
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Social
Are there anti-abortion themes?
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Quite the opposite in the worst way possible.
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Does it have a sad ending?
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The ending is one very much open to interpretation. Without spoiling, many people take Henry's actions in a literal manner and the significance of a returning symbol in the movie here as a morbid one. People who argue the opposite view Henry's action in a metaphorical way, almost a breaking of a barrier, and the aforementioned symbol either a hopeful embrace or a goodbye to that morbidity. I'm personally in the latter camp but take from Eraserhead what you wanna take out of Eraserhead, ha.
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Violence
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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