ERASERHEAD ON BLU-RAY (in Australia)!!!!

[Nailwraps]

This just in!:

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=6880

"Australian distributors Umbrella Entertainment have revealed that they are getting ready to release on Blu-ray David Lynch's groundbreaking film debut, Eraserhead (1977). Technical specs and region coding status for this release are unknown at the moment, but the preliminary release date set by the distributors is September 1.

Five years in the making, Eraserhead is David Lynch's bizarre and groundbreaking film debut. Shot in black and white, the film unfolds in a lifeless, industrial wasteland where the protagonist, Henry Spencer, tramps the grey, empty streets in a confused dream. An aloof young man who works as a printer, Henry finally faces up to his winsome, hysterical girlfriend and her freakshow family before finding he's the father of a mutant alien child. Lynch called Eraserhead "a dream of dark and troubling things", and Henry inevitably falls deeper into an unconscious nightmare populated with the demented, deformed and depraved until a beautiful vixen offers him some hope of escape."

[Zillamon51]

I watched this for the first time a few months ago on Netflix. Very early on, I started riffing it in my head (never a good sign). The scenes with the mutant baby were genuinely disturbing, with good FX. Overall though, it has two things in common with 2001: A Space Odyssey: It's incredibly overrated, and it puts me to sleep.