Eraserhead - Midnight Movie

Name: Eraserhead - Midnight Movie
Start: 2025-03-07T22:59:00+00:00
End: 2025-03-08T01:30:00+00:00
Location: Dove Street South, Bristol

Schedule

Fri, 07 Mar, 2025 at 10:59 pm to Sat, 08 Mar, 2025 at 01:30 am

UTC+00:00

Location

Dove Street South, Bristol | Bristol, EN

The Cube Midnight Movie
Eraserhead
Dir: David Lynch, 1977, USA, 89mins, Cert: 15
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Fri 7 March // 23:59
Tickets: £5
Midnight Movies are back at The Cube? And they're kicking off with ERASERHEAD? Well: yes, and yes!
David Lynch's 'dream of dark and troubling things' played for almost two straight years in the midnight slot at New York's Waverly cinema, making it one of the original 'midnight movies', and despite the influence it has exerted on both film and popular culture over the subsequent four decades, the film has lost none of its power to astonish and surprise.
By turns hypnotic, hilarious, terrifying and transgressive, it simultaneously channels the spirit of surrealism, Antonin Artaud and the Marx Brothers, while its stream-of-consciousness imagery has indelibly seared itself onto any number of minds and turned up as any number of tattoos on the bodies of the film's considerable fanbase.
More than any other of Lynch's work, the film holds onto its cryptic meanings like a clergyman holding onto a seashell - and any attempt at interpretation was dismissed by Lynch (in his trademark, aw-shucks Montanan drawl) with a simple 'that ain't it!'. For what it's worth, the late maestro once described 'Eraserhead' as his most spiritual film - make what you will (or won't) of that when you see it.
Given the preponderance of weird liminal spaces and spooky radiator-bound stages throughout the film, where better to watch (or re-watch) Eraserhead than at The Cube...at MIDNIGHT!
Spooky Lynchian songs and sounds spinning in the bar from 10pm - bar open til 12:30!
(And keep your eyes peeled for more midnight movie screenings throughout the year.)
NB: This event is at Midnight on Friday night!