Eraserhead
Eraserhead is a 1977 film film about a man who tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
In Heaven Everything Is Fine.
- Written and directed by David Lynch.
Henry Spencer
- [the Baby is going into violent convulsions and has broken out in spots] Oh, you are sick!
Others
- Lady in the Radiator: [singing] In Heaven, everything is fine.
In Heaven, everything is fine.
In Heaven, everything is fine.
You've got your good things, and I've got mine.
In Heaven, everything is fine.
In Heaven, everything is fine.
In Heaven, everything is fine.
You've got your good things, and you've got mine.
In Heaven, everything...is fine.
~ In Heaven
- Boss: Counter, Paul!
- Beautiful Girl Across the Hall: I locked myself out of my apartment... [pause] and it's so late.
- Mrs. X: You're in very bad trouble if you won't cooperate...
Dialogue
- Mrs. X: It's Henry isn't it? Mary tells me you're a very nice fellow. What do you do?
- Henry: Oh, I'm on vacation.
- Mrs. X: What did you do?
- Mr. X: I thought I heard a stranger. We've got chicken tonight. Strangest damn things. They're man-made. Little damn things, smaller than my fist - but they're new!...... I'm Bill.
- Henry: Hello. I'm Henry.
- Mrs. X: Henry's at Lappell's factory.
- Mr. X: So, printin's yer business, eh? Plumbin's mine. Thirty years! I've watched this neighborhood change from pastures to the hell-hole it is now! I put every damn pipe in this town!
- Mary X: Dad!..
- Mrs. X: Bill...
- Mr. X: People think pipes grow in their homes! Well they sure as hell don't. Look at my knees! Look at my knees!
- Mrs. X: Bill...
- Mr. X: Are ya hungry?
- Mrs. X: Bill...
- Mr. X: Well Henry, what do you know?
- Henry: Oh, I don't know much of anything.
- Henry: [as the chickens begin moving] So I just, uh... I just cut them up like regular chickens?
- Mr. X: Sure, just cut them up like regular chickens [this quote got sampled by Amon Tobin on Permutation (album), for the track "Like Regular Chickens"].
- Mrs. X: There's a baby. It's at the hospital.
- Mary X: Mom!
- Mrs. X: And you're the father.
- Henry: Well that's impossible! It's only been...
- Mary X: Mother, they're still not sure it is a baby!
- Mary X: You wouldn't mind marrying me, would you Henry?
- Henry: Well... No.
Cast
- Jack Nance — Henry Spencer
- Charlotte Stewart — Mary X
- Allen Joseph — Mr. X
- Jeanne Bates — Mrs. X