10 Most Terrifying Horror Movie Dream Sequences

Eraserhead is a weird film, there are no two ways about it. Often referred to as an ‘experimental’ horror, this was the famous David Lynch’s feature directorial debut.

Lynch has referred to the film itself as being “a dream of dark and troubling things,” so in one aspect it could be argued that the entire film is a dream sequence.

Despite the general difficulty in distinguishing what is real from what is a dream, a few scenes are so abstract that they have to be products of the unconscious. At one point, our protagonist Henry stands on a raised platform above a stage. A phallic, fleshy appendage suddenly protrudes from his neck and forces his head to spring off.

His severed head rolls across a checkered floor before coming to rest and being surrounded by blood, as the column that appeared from his neck becomes the face of a strange humanoid. It looks like the face of his child, and it gapes its mouth open without reacting as his head falls through the floor and onto a concrete pavement.

Whilst not being overtly terrifying, this scene is just another example of the unnerving, vaguely horrifying occurrences that make this film so legendary.