Lynch has directed 10 feature-length films with prolific actors like Anthony Hopkins, Laura Dern, Nicholas Cage, and Kyle MacLachlan, as well as the beloved television show he co-created with Mark ...
Lynch applied all the stark surrealism of Eraserhead to the story of John Merrick (John Hurt), a disfigured man who is rescued from a Victorian freak show by a kindly doctor (Anthony Hopkins).