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The Elephant Man (2008)

DVD RELEASE: Aug 4th 2008 TOTAL FILM REVIEW 
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“You’re a mad man! I love you! You’re in!” With those words, producer Mel Brooks signed up David Lynch after gawping through his surreal debut Eraserhead. It’s just one of many recollections on the disc’s 24-minute interview with Lynch, whose second film again eyeballs a strange man’s lonely existence in a nightmare-world: John Merrick, aka ‘The Elephant Man’, a grotesquely deformed twentysomething who started in a freakshow and ended up one of the most famous men in 19th Century London

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