David Lynch was born on 20th January, 1946 and died on 16th January, 2025. He leaves an amazing list of movies that started in 1977 with the cult horror classic, Eraserhead. The weird, surreal story of Henry getting his girlfriend pregnant, only for her to give birth to something alien, is the topic of discussion on many websites as the story is disected in more ways than Lynch could have imagined when he first directed the independent film.

Filming Eraserhead began in 1972. Lynch has said "My original image was of a man's head bouncing on the ground, being picked up by a boy and taken to a pencil factory. I don’t know where it came from." 

The Eraserhead script was only 21 pages and planned to be 42 minutes in length.  When it was released it was 89 minutes. Though Eraserhead is by far the most surreal and bizarre of all David Lynch's movies, there is an element of surrealism and psychological undercurrents in everything he has worked on. None moreso than the psychological horror murder mystery television series, Twin Peaks which was first shown in 1990.

David Lynch received five Primetime Emmy Award nominations, including Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series and Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for Twin Peaks which is still popular on many streaming services over 30 years later.

Twin Peaks ran for two series in 1990 - 1991 and returned for a thirdcseries in 2017. Like Eraserhead, Twin Peaks is full of surrealism, distinctive cinematography, and offbeat humour. 

The world of television and movies lost a weird, staunchly independent, individual mind and a wonderful person when David Lynch died last month. He will never be forgotten or replaced.