Eraserhead midnight showings will send audiences on a mind trip

By the time Harry stabs a deformed alien baby in the lung in director David Lynch’s Eraserhead, viewers will probably have already given up trying to understand the plot. Maybe that’s why the IFC Center has chosen Lynch’s 1977 cult classic for their midnight movie this Friday and Saturday. Before Fight Club and Memento, Eraserhead was the original “mind-fuck” movie.

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