David Lynch's well-deserved reputation for weirdness started with this, his first feature film after years working on equally weird short films and animation. The film follows Jeffrey Spencer as he is forced to look after his horribly deformed child. The world that Spencer inhabits is a depressing, desolate and weird one. Throughout the course of the film he has many strange dreams/hallucinations about his newborn baby and 'The Lady In The Radiator'. The weirdness is compounded by the jarring soundtrack, comprised of dark ambient and industrial-sounding music. The whole atmosphere of the film is creepy and causes the viewer great unease. Initially ignored, the film has gained significant popularity as a midnight movie and with fans of Lynch (and surrealism in general). One of the most impressive things about the film is that, given how strange the whole thing is, it is oddly touching and beautiful in places.
