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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.
Starring Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Jeanne Bates, Judith Anna Roberts, Laurel Near, and Jack Fisk, it tells the story of a man (Nance) who is left to care for his grossly deformed child in a desolate industrial landscape.
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.
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 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.
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.
