In a bleak industrial landscape, a young man learns he is about to become a father. Shortly after a disastrous dinner party his in-laws, his girlfriend gives birth to a horrifying, mutant-like creature that won’t stop crying. Overwhelmed by anxiety and the strain of caring for this sickly, otherworldly infant, he spirals into madness. Featuring nightmarish black-and-white imagery and haunting sound design, David Lynch’s visionary debut became a cult sensation on the midnight movie circuit, heralding the arrival of one of the most unique artistic voices in American cinema history.

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Reviews

‘It’s beautiful and strange, with its profoundly disturbing ambient sound design of industrial groaning, as if filmed inside some collapsing factory or gigantic dying organism.’
★★★★★
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

‘Lynch’s remarkable first feature is a true original.’
★★★★★
Tom Huddlestone, Time Out