15 'WTF Did I Just Pay To See' Horror Movies

David Lynch, arguably one of the greatest filmmakers of them all, is quite possibly the king of cinematic weirdness - he announced this in a big way with his stunning debut feature, Eraserhead, an abstract and powerful representation of one man's fear of parenthood. In the film, Henry (Jack Nance) cares for his mutant child in a hellish industrial landscape populated by many other unsettling characters, including a man who lives inside a planet and a woman who lives in a radiator. 

A dream-like and ambiguous work that doesn't really make any sense at all, Eraserhead keeps increasing the abject madness right up until the film's genuinely unexplainable ending. That shouldn't be misinterpreted as a criticism, for the film's lack of narrative logic is one of the many things - alongside Lynch's note-perfect direction, masterful use of sound and what is inarguably the most terrifying baby in film history - that makes it so unsettling and frightening. 

It's a horror masterpiece without question, but it's hard to deny that it's also one of the strangest movies you'll ever watch. The primary reaction, alongside awe, shock and terror, will most likely be "WTF?!" and Lynch wouldn't have it any other way.