20 Most Horribly Misleading Movie Titles
17. Eraserhead
What It Sounds Like: To be honest, the idea of David Lynchs debut feature involving a character with a giant eraser for a head isnt that unusual. He did after all convince the entire cast of Mulholland Dr. to don giant bunny heads for a mini-series called Rabbits.
What It Actually Is: Alas, this isnt a stationery-inspired story of a friendly chappy whos always on hand to rub out any mistakes in your Times crossword. The one similarity the title has to the content is that its crazier than a Syphilitic crotch.
Henry Spencer (Jack Nance) experiences a ton of bizarre and surreal hallucinations. It is Lynch, so they wind up sort of being true. He ends up caring for his snake-like ugly-as-sin child while dreaming about people stomping on miniatures of his offspring.
Dont think it would have seemed at all out of place to have included a character with a rubber head.
What It Should Have Been Called: Henrys Lost The Plot