Lynch's film fit the surreal, supernatural mood that Kubrick was looking for.
The Big Picture In the late 70s, Stanley Kubrick was directing The Shining as an unprecedentedly surreal, terrifying, and complex horror film. With a special blend of mystery and suspense that begs the audience to contemplate its intricacies, The Shining was really unlike most horror films to come before it.
To this day, nobody really knows what Eraserhead is about, and Lynch is notoriously secretive about his intentions behind the film. The plot centers around a lonely man named Henry Spencer , who is left as the sole caretaker of his grotesquely-disfigured prematurely-born child.
Kubrick later went on to tell Lynch that he showed Eraserhead to his Shining cast and crew "to put them in the mood"— and what a mood it is! While there aren't many parallels between the films' plots, the feel of the two are quite similar. Both deal with themes of isolation and emasculation, placing depraved images of family and fatherhood at their centers.
Of course, the most profound similarity between the two films may be their approach to narrative. Both Eraserhead and The Shining are emphatically resistant to explication, and neither David Lynch nor Stanley Kubrick have offered definitive interpretations of their respective works. For over forty years since the films' releases, fans, cinephiles, and even academic film scholars have tried to dissect and analyze the movies, sometimes coming up with wild conclusions about their true meanings.
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