Eraserhead
Movie • 1977 • Fantasy
ReportHenry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
This movie contains 31 potentially triggering events.
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Your Triggers
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Unanswered Triggers
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Abandonment
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Abuse
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Is there domestic violence?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Does the abused become the abuser?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Mommagranate
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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Addiction
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Animal
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Anonymous
Rumor that the baby is a real-life dead rabbit
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Are animals abused?
101 supporters
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MariaClocktower
There's a strange scene featuring bloody chickens
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Is there a dead animal?
56 supporters
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MilesDustin
Some “man-made” chickens that bleed a bit too much
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Are there snakes?
10 supporters
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Mommagranate
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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Assault
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Buttonsy
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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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
16 supporters
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Mommagranate
With scissors, but we don't see a clear break of skin
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
12 supporters
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Mommagranate
The baby wheezes with sickness. At one point its mouth is forceably covered and you hear it struggle.
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Is there body horror?
25 supporters
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EchoGarden1
There’s a woman with very swelled up cheeks and personally it terrified me.
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Is there amputation?
11 supporters
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Mommagranate
I don't think so? Maybe decapitation but it just falls off
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Does a head get squashed?
28 supporters
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BenSa
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?
21 supporters
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Mommagranate
There are some mouth horror scenes, special effects with the baby, but no teeth damage
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Does someone have a seizure?
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SaladInMyPants
the baby tends to shake but it isn't explicitly a seizure. it could remind someone of one
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
26 supporters
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Mommagranate
I guess this is the way of a dimly lit surreal movie, but I don't remember any...
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Is there eye mutilation?
51 supporters
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Thatsalmostwhatshesaid
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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Does a kid die?
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TheMuchSwagDoge
Barely a “child”, but enough for it to be considered one.
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Is a minor sexualized?
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MilesDustin
The baby looks a lot like male genitals when unwrapped but not really in a Weird way
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Death
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
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Does a parent die?
6 supporters
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Buttonsy
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?
12 supporters
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MilesDustin
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
Are there jumpscares?
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Buttonsy
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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Gross
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Does someone vomit?
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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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Does someone spit?
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Mommagranate
The baby has a hard time being fed, so sort of some spitting
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Is there audio gore?
26 supporters
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Mommagranate
Heavy on the sound effects. Not super gory but everything you see, you hear. Mainly squelching.
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
3 supporters
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MilesDustin
This movie takes place before 9/11
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Law Enforcement
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LGBTQ+
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Medical
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Are needles/syringes used?
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Mommagranate
Looks like it for a second but it's a glass thermometer
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Mental Health
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MilesDustin
Some people think that he kills himself at the end of the movie, but this is not shown.
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Is there misophonia?
21 supporters
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Mommagranate
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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Is there body dysmorphia?
14 supporters
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Mommagranate
I don't think dysmorphia in the self image way
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Are there anxiety attacks?
15 supporters
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Mommagranate
Some distressed crying from both mother and child, but doesn't seem like an attack
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Mommagranate
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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Noxious
Does a baby cry?
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Mommagranate
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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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
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Is there childbirth?
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SaladInMyPants
not onscreen however
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Are there abortions?
11 supporters
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Mommagranate
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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Does someone miscarry?
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Mommagranate
Successful but extremely premature birth
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Prejudice
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
20 supporters
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Mommagranate
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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Race
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Relationships
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Sex
Is there sexual content?
29 supporters
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Mommagranate
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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Sickness
Does someone have a stroke?
4 supporters
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MilesDustin
Near the beginning, his girlfriend wife thing has a seizure
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Social
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Spoiler
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Does it have a sad ending?
21 supporters
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BirdBeesBabysBacteria
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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Vehicular
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Violence
Is there a nuclear explosion?
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BenSa
No, but the main character has a photograph of a mushroom cloud next to his bed.
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Is there blood/gore?
27 supporters
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Anonymous
A surprisingly large amount of blood comes out of a roast chicken.
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