The 1977.

In a strange desolate industrial world, a pencil factory worker called Henry receives some alarming news that he's gotten his

girlfriend pregnant and that she's somehow already given birth to something. Suddenly Henry's world is turned upside down and his life begins to descend into an existential nightmare.

Until eventually all traces of his small simple existence are erased.

Join me as we continue our journey through the mind and body as we discuss David Lynch's surrealist debut masterpiece, Eraserhead.

So cut them up like regular chickens? Sure, just cut them up like regular chickens?

Sure, just cut them up like regular chickens.

Welcome back to the evolution of horror.

My name is Mike and as ever I am your host.

If you're tuning in for the first time, then welcome. you're really jumping into the deep end with this one

In this podcast we explore the history and the evolution of the horror genre by looking at particular sub-jumras one series at a time

We are currently in the middle of our journey through

the mind and body in horror cinema and this is part seven in which we are

delving into the mind of David Lynch.

We're going to be covering a lot of Lynch films

over the next few weeks throughout the series.

And of course, this is the first Biggie.

This is his debut film Eraserhead. We will be talking about this film in depth so I would say

spoiler alert although this film you know I don't know how much you can really spoil Eraserhead.

You kind of just have to see it to experience it but we've got a lot to

discuss we've got a lot to try and unpick as we try and figure out what the

hell this film is really about.

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