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Originally Posted by MSchu18
Elephant Man... lynch showing off his magnificent B/W film making skills.
If you could "barely get through" Eraserhead, you probably would sadly not make it through Elephant Man.
Oh I thought they meant "the horror" like it was so scary and wonderful they couldn't get through it.
I have Eraserhead at ~#1.
I was pretty lukewarm on The Elephant Man last time I saw it, however it was in this small art museum screening room and a woman was chewing and popping gum really obnoxiously. When I eventually turned to say something she successfully ignored me, which made me feel bad. The chewing stopped a short time later, unsure if related.
Felt the movie was basically Lynch's version of what we'd now call "Oscar bait".