Imagine welcoming a new baby, only to find that a vampire infant from outer space crash-landed in your backyard. Yes, you read that right. Vampire of the Sun takes parenthood to the next level with a slice-of-life drama that explores the meaning of family in the most unusual circumstances...
Gary D. Rhodes, author ofThe Perils of Movie going in America About the author: Robert Guffey is a lecturer in the Department of English at California State University – Long Beach. His most recent books are WIDOW OF THE AMPUTATION AND OTHER WEIRD CRIMES (Eraserhead Press, 2021), a collec...
Once the movie was completed, you then had the problem of releasing it. This must have felt strange, given that you’d all been a part of this extremely hermetic world for so long. Now your creation has to go out into the world. How did that work? Well, first I tried to get it ...
The movie consists of only one shot and finds a severed head talking aloud while immobile on the floor. Lynch voices the head. “I am not going fishing, mom,” the head says. “Mom, I am not going fishing.” The sound of a ticking clock and wind noises are heard in the background...
Cult Movie Extraordinaire: David Lynch’s Eraserhead(Photo source, Criterion) The phrase used to announceEraserhead‘s (1976) birth when it was unleashed on the world was:A dream of dark and troubling things. This tagline certainly acknowledges the bizarre world the film’s characters inhabit, ...
Eraserheadplays both sides of the B-movie coin. It’s flagrantly auteur and experimental to be sure, but it’s also, thanks to its cramped budget, amazingly cheap-looking. Not to mention the fact its gruesome and grotesque imagery and subject matter is something that was never going to attr...
Gary D. Rhodes, author ofThe Perils of Movie going in America About the author: Robert Guffey is a lecturer in the Department of English at California State University – Long Beach. His most recent books are WIDOW OF THE AMPUTATION AND OTHER WEIRD CRIMES (Eraserhead Press, 2021), a collec...
The movie consists of only one shot and finds a severed head talking aloud while immobile on the floor. Lynch voices the head. “I am not going fishing, mom,” the head says. “Mom, I am not going fishing.” The sound of a ticking clock and wind noises are heard in the background...