April’s installment of our year-long tribute to David Lynch flashes back to his long-gestating 1977 debut, a midnight movie essential and one of the most avant-garde American feature films to ever achieve mainstream notoriety. 

ERASERHEAD headlines our 2025 UP ALL NIGHT cult movie marathon event (6pm-6am Saturday April 12, click through for tickets), and returns for a standalone encore screening Tuesday April 15 (tickets linked below) in an optional double feature with the documentary I KNOW CATHERINE, THE LOG LADY.

Henry (John Nance) resides alone in a bleak apartment surrounded by industrial gloom. When he discovers that an earlier fling with Mary X (Charlotte Stewart) left her pregnant, he marries the expectant mother and has her move in with him. Things take a decidedly strange turn when the couple’s baby turns out to be a bizarre lizard-like creature that won’t stop wailing. Other characters, including a disfigured lady who lives inside a radiator, inhabit the building and add to Henry’s troubles.

“What a masterpiece of texture, a feat of artisanal attention, an ingenious assemblage of damp, dust, rock, wood, hair, flesh, metal, ooze.” – Village Voice

Showtimes

Tuesday 4/15
8:30 pm