Eraserhead

[Professor S]

David Lynch has always been a master of setting tones in films, but he often fails to actually make good films. Eraserhead is creepy and unnerving and spectacularly shot and directed... but its still just a lot of bluster without much substance. This is often my biggest gripe with Tim Burton's films as well, but Burton isn't as bad of a storyteller as Lynch for the most part.

Lynch's opus is The Elephant Man, a simply fantastic movie that rips at your soul and makes you re-examine your own humanity through the eyes of this poor soul. Other than that, I think his best work is DUNE, believe it or not. Its creepy, original and effective at what it tries to accomplish. Its also one of the better Christ-figure stories put to film.