Top Left: Vincent D’Onofrio in Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick, 1988); Top Right: Divine in Multiple Maniacs (John Waters, 1972); Lower left: Lon Chaney, sr. in The Unknown (Tod Browning, 1927); screaming child in Christmas Eve at Miller’s Point (Tyler Thomas Taormina, 2024)
At a midnight screening of Eraserhead years ago, I witnessed a battle betwee…