10 Horror Movies That Use Your Imagination Against You

From the impenetrable mind of auteur filmmaker David Lynch – co-creator of Twin Peaks and director of equally out-there works Blue Velvet and Mullholland Drive – comes Eraserhead, arguably Lynch’s most experimental and challenging work to date.

Spending five years in production due to lack of finances, the filmmaker’s debut transports viewers to a bleak industrial landscape where we follow everyman Henry (Jack Nance) struggle with the news that he has a new-born child.

With sequences of dinner writhing in pain, a singing woman who lives in Henry’s radiator, and the monstrous infant, Eraserhead demonstrates Lynch’s unique style of surrealist artistry at its fullest. Described by the filmmaker as being “a dream of dark and troubling things”, attempting to decipher concrete meaning from the madness is a near impossible task for any viewer or critic.

Painting Henry’s world in monochrome with an unsettling soundscape, Eraserhead is an existential nightmare brought to life as it follows its own bizarre dream logic where anything, no matter how implausible, can have a place in this world.

And like any other strange nightmare, it’s up to us to use our own imagination to work out what any of what we’ve just seen could possibly mean.