--- On Tue, 8/26/08, LUCY FRASER <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On a slightly different tack, I'm watching Eraserhead
> on dvd. The cover reads 'Be warned. The nightmare has
> not gone away...' This edition is about five+ years
> old, probably the 2001 edition. Does the legend on any
> earlier marketing/editions read the same? Was it always a
> nightmare or is this a comparatively recent description of
> Lynch's film. Also, 'David Lynch's
> extraordinary, seminal, horror masterpiece' - what
> defines Eraserhead as horror?
>
I leave the classification of horror up to others (for I have already brought up annihilation and castration being worse than physical death, the French marketed the film misleadingly as "Labyrinth man", btw.), Erica Sheen´s publication includes a chapter on that issue, but there are many different interpretations in circulation (like the Eraserhead scenery being the result of nuclear radiation).
The line you´ve quoted appeared on many older UK tape editions as well, using exactly the same wording. And nightmares, possible harm induced by the film was part of the marketing since its initial release.
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