Where your nightmares end...

First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
Eraserhead keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing fear, mortality, family, identity, otherness.
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)E13/E14 · rare rung · fear, identity
Mars Attacks! (1996)E12/E14 · rare rung · fear, otherness
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)E12/E14 · rare rung · fear, mortality
TMNT (2007)E6/E11 · rare rung · family, identity
Evil Dead Burn (2026)E6/E9 · rare rung · family, fear
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)E12/E13 · rare rung · fear, otherness