The Grandmother

1970

Animation / Horror

12
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 76% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 8174 8.2K

surreal surrealism black and white

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Plot summary

To escape neglect and abuse from his parents, a young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother.

Director

David Lynch Photo
David Lynch

Top cast

Richard White Photo
Richard White as Boy
Dorothy McGinnis Photo
Dorothy McGinnis as Grandmother
Virginia Maitland Photo
Virginia Maitland as Mother
Robert Chadwick Photo
Robert Chadwick as Father
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
310.25 MB
960*720
English 2.0
Not Rated
23.976 fps
12 hr 33 min
Seeds 2
575.99 MB
1440*1080
English 2.0
Not Rated
23.976 fps
12 hr 33 min
Seeds 11

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by R T 5 / 10

Any single second of this film's cinematography is

Any single second of this film's cinematography is immediately recognizable as the work of the creative mind of David Lynch. However, it is like watching a nightmare: odd, disturbing, pointless. It is ostensibly about an abused child who grows a grandmother so he can have a comforting presence in his dysfunctional family. The entire 33 minutes is an exercise in visual and aural ugliness. Everyone is in white makeup; the boy is formally dressed resembling Emcee in Cabaret. When the family sits down to eat, plastic bags of bread are strewn on the table, an unlit electric lamp takes up most of the tablespace (candles may have looked too pretty). Any furniture visible in the stark high contrast cinematography is thrift-store trash. Although it has sound, it is mostly atonal noise and shrieks. Although it is a live-action film, there is animation (more ugliness); although it is in black and white, there are colors, the most pronounced being dark yellow urine stains. (This poor kid must need a urologist.) Urine in this movie is about as profuse as blood is in The Shining. The grandmother who grows quickly out of a bulb, smiles sometimes, but since that is about it for her as a contrast to the shouting monosyllabic parents, she isn't that much of a comfort. She mostly lies in her bed of dirt--but isn't that the same bed the boy wets all the time? Oh, well, dreams don't have to make sense. The surreal look is peppered with stop-motion cinematography, so Lynchian. But it is only "enjoyable" as an example of his style. This is to be seen by film-students, not audiences seeking escapism. The reaction is meant to be less "Hooray for Hollywood" and more "WTF!"
Reviewed by R T 10 / 10

Amazing 33 minutes of film. utterly disturbing, like

Amazing 33 minutes of film. utterly disturbing, like Lynch has managed to film someones bad dream
Reviewed by Christopher B 7 / 10

A very early and disturbing 34 minute piece

A very early and disturbing 34 minute piece on family life as a surrealist nightmare. Live footage is blended with transitional crudely constructed animation that advances the bizzare and very surreal narrative. This being said, it focuses more on the creepy visuals and very simplistic and terrifying soundtrack to accomplish it's atmosphere. Very early work that you can see the latter Eraserhead being constructed from.
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