The film was ultimately kept alive by loans from friends and Lynch resorting to offering cuts of the film’s profits instead of paying actors. And things got progressively worse when Lynch split from his wife, became effectively homeless, and started illegally living on set. As a result, Lynch soon found himself constantly running out of money during filming. That’s because Lynch’s original script for Eraserhead was only 21 pages long, leaving investors assuming the project would be a short 20-minute film. Lynch’s problems allegedly began due to backers’ confusion regarding what they were funding.
But while he might be an icon of the film industry today, Lynch didn’t have the easiest time getting his horror film made back in the 1970s, which had an initial budget of less than $100,000. Much like Tetsuo, Eraserhead is another totally bizarre film, this time by the king of surrealist filmmaking, David Lynch. Still, Tsukamoto got his film made, and it soon became an underground sensation that is still influencing filmmakers today. As a result, many cast and crew members abandoned the project during filming. Luckily for him, one of his actors, Kei Fujiwara, allowed the team to use her apartment as one of the primary locations for the film.įilming conditions were, by all accounts, both rudimentary and awful to work in. And with little cash to go around, Tsukamoto relied upon underground theatre performers and friends to fill out his cast and crew. Told by nearly everyone, including his family members, that making a film was essentially a ridiculous pipedream, Shinya Tsukamoto self-financed his film entirely from savings he made from his day job. And the fact that this film was even possible on its $17,000 budget, let alone able to become a cult-classic worldwide, is a testament to its director’s fortitude. But, while it might be the least well-known film on this list, it’s also the cheapest by far. So an argument could certainly be made that Tetsuo: The Iron Man isn’t quite well known enough to be considered iconic.
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