David Lynch: Ranking His Movies From Worst To Best

3. Eraserhead (1977)

This is the one, the one that took 5 years to make, the one that set its main star on his infamous path that would lead to his odd demise some 25 years later, the one that propelled Lynch into the public eye and still remains his most important work to date. It is a film that may mean nothing to you on first watch; you will probably laugh (which is possibly intended), cringe at its awkwardness and just be shocked by its overall expressionist methods. It story is both hard to pin down, it seems to be some sort of hellish nightmare that our hero lives in, a post apocalyptic world where the constant hiss and whirr or machines keep the world awake. The rest of the films story needs to be seen to be understood (or at least digested), to put it into words seems a little fruitless. It is not an easy watch at all, and much like Mulholland Drive, may have you switching off halfway through, but if you stick with it and open your mind and take away whatever meaning you want to from it, you may just have your eyes opened to a whole new world of film. Despite being the one that sticks out most when you think of Lynch, it can't be number one or indeed two in this list. That right is reserved for two of the most fascinating films of the last 25 years. The Severed Ear Scale Of Madness: 5/5