Henry Spencer (Jack Nance) is having some trouble with his significant other, Mary (Charlotte Stewart).  He decides to visit her after months of no contact to find out that she has had his child.  The child is premature and basically a mutant.  Henry attempts to figure out what to do at this juncture in his life as he tries to care for this mutant child, live with Mary and deal with the lady that lives in his radiator.

So when I began this marathon I knew going in that it was going to get weird.  I knew that David Lynch was a filmmaker that people feared and loved at the same time.  So this is me basically throwing up my arms and finally saying HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!! I don’t know how to take this movie.  It made absolutely no fucking sense.  I could tell that maybe it had something to say about children, birth, or maybe abortion; but I’m not sure.  There was a chick in the radiator who stepped on little sperm looking things.  According to Wikipedia Lynch took about seven years to make this film because the initial budget wasn’t enough and he had to use all of his earnings as he went along to fund the film, and this is the kind of movie that when my child shows me what he did with his last six/seven years I would look at him and say something like ‘son, maybe you should take that job with your cousin at the factory’.  This is the kind of movie that I’d expect one Douglas would make me watch for our podcast and then glorify it because he didn’t get it but the lighting was cool.  It’s obvious from the marathon that Lynch didn’t quite forget his insane roots of storytelling but he might’ve learnt how to make it somewhat more understandable (hence why we have movies like Blue Velvet).

So this movie gets a resounding 0/10 from me.

IMDB says 7.4/10

Rotten Tomatoes says 90%

I say 0/10