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Baby (also known as Spike) is the inhuman offspring of Mary X and Henry Spencer. The baby is an object of disgust for both Mary and Henry. At the close of the film, Henry cuts away the baby's swaddling clothes, only to find that the baby doesn't have any skin.
After a sexual encounter with the Beautiful Girl Across the Hall, he has another vision in which the Lady in the Radiator sings ("In Heaven") and his head pops off while he is fidgeting, replaced by the baby's crying head. Henry's head falls from the sky, landing on a street and breaking open.
As anyone who has seen the movie will tell you, the Eraserhead baby is the stuff of nightmares. The baby itself is famous for being somewhat of a mystery. David lynch refuses to discus the baby, what it is, how it was created, or why it's so gosh darn creepy.
Jul 18, 2022 · The secret of the Eraserhead baby is the Holy Grail of Lynch obsessives, and the one thing missing from Greg Olson’s otherwise admirably comprehensive new biography of Lynch (David Lynch: Beautiful Dark).
Mar 29, 2024 · The Eraserhead Baby, also known as Henry's Baby, refers to the humanoid baby in the 1977 David Lynch psychological horror film Eraserhead. In memes, the Eraserhead Baby received fan art and fan edits on TikTok, predominantly surfacing in early 2024.
Mar 4, 2022 · Nevertheless, some have speculated on how Jennifer was as a baby, and if she is, perhaps, Eraserhead's inspiration. David Lynch has never confirmed this theory, and Jennifer even filmed a scene for the movie in which she dug dimes out of the ground that didn't make the final cut.
In Eraserhead, Henry's Baby amplifies the surrealism with its abnormal, snakelike appearance, symbolizing Henry's apprehension about becoming a father. The surreal imagery is further intensified by the baby's metamorphosis into a planet and its eventual explosion.
Feb 23, 2023 · The baby in Eraserhead, nicknamed "Spike" by Jack Nance, is the most crucial prop in the film according to Lynch's own autobiography. Lynch began creating it by hand himself, months before the...
Jan 4, 2024 · Driven mad by the squeals of her newborn, Mary leaves Henry in charge of the baby, with the latter forcing the father, who never wanted offspring, into an existential nightmare. What is this child? How must it be kept alive?
Nov 1, 2020 · That’s not exactly the case for the “Eraserhead” baby. Nicknamed Spike, the story behind the creation of the baby was unknown when the film was first released in 1977 and remains to be a mystery to this day.
