Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by SmokeTest (A) on December 01, 2002 at 00:40:46

In Reply to: With one exception... posted by DirtyD on November 26, 2002 at 13:55:22:

He's listed in the credits (Steve Grody) with his brother, they were in the rafters dropping them. I think they were something from a butcher shop/house. Or maybe fertile eggs, broken open early. I haven't talked to him in years, otherwise I'd ask him.
What the 'baby' was made out of Lynch won't tell. Doesn't want to ruin it for viewers. I think a skinned turkey fetus head. At some point umbilical cords were used--Henry pulling them out of the bed or something.
A few odd points. It was made off/on as funding came in, still done real cheap, at American Film Institute. AFI realized after it was made that Lynch owned the rights to it, and the major houses--who also help fund, AFI objected to AFI making competition for them (if you could call Eraserhead competition). So AFI now only helps out making shorts, and guess who owns them?

At a screening for AFI honchos of footage during the filming, the dinner scene, one of the honchos blew up: "Real people don't act like that!" Makes me wonder who he thinks real people act like. John Wayne? Shelly Winters? (why do people think she can act?) Maybe Michael Jackson. Why should movies have people act like real people anyway? I go to get away from real people!

There was a big article on it in American Cinemeteque Magazine about 1982. In it, Lynch says the whole thing was like a dream.

Anyway, poor 'Henry' got into a fight a few years ago at a doughnut shop a few blocks from my office in South Pasadena, and died of bleeding in the brain in his bath tub across the street on Fair Oaks Avenue. He was annoyed by some young punks and mouthed off, so they started beating him. They were never caught. I thought of taking his apt when it went up for rent, but other reasons prevailed.