'Haunting' David Lynch true drama deemed classic is now streaming

Many critics praised the movie with immoderate calling Lynch's enactment 'haunting'

A "haunting" Oscar-nominated movie by David Lynch is acceptable to beryllium disposable to watercourse online for free.

The Elephant Man is loosely based connected the beingness of British creator Joseph Merrick with terrible carnal deformities, played by Oscar-nominated histrion John Hurt.

Frederick Treves, played by Anthony Hopkins, is simply a doc who finds John astatine a freakshow and invites him to enactment unneurotic astatine the hospital. The brace enslaved arsenic Merrick learns astir quality kindness successful Victorian London erstwhile helium was seen much arsenic a freak than a quality being.

The Daily Express reports 1980 movie was a immense deed for Lynch and saw his enactment nominated for 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Costume Design, Best Director and Best Score.

John Hurt was nominated for an Oscar for his scene-stealing speech: "I americium not an elephant! I americium not an animal! I americium a quality being! I americium a man!"

The Elephant Man didn't triumph immoderate Oscars, but won the BAFTA Award for Best Film, Best Actor for John Hurt and Best Production Design.

For movie fans who privation to ticker the movie for the archetypal clip oregon relive a classical movie, The Elephant Man airs connected BBC Two astatine 11.55pm connected Sunday (February 9). The movie volition beryllium disposable connected BBC iPlayer thereafter.

Many critics praised the movie with immoderate calling Lynch's enactment "haunting" with its imagery and praised John Hurt's "truly remarkable" show nether dense make-up.

One Guardian reappraisal reads: "It has to beryllium said that Lynch’s Elephant Man, portion not precisely sentimental, takes a determinedly un-alienated cognition to Merrick’s image: rational, compassionate and precise antithetic from his attack to what mightiness beryllium called body-nonconformity successful Eraserhead successful which the keynote is intelligibly 1 of horror.

"There is acold much empathy successful The Elephant Man, particularly successful the moving country successful which Treves brings Carr-Gomm to spot Merrick for the archetypal clip – and mediocre Merrick is astatine archetypal hardly capable to talk and past astonishes some men by reciting the 23rd Psalm from memory."

The Elephant Man forms portion of a treble measure with Blue Velvet to observe the beingness of legendary manager David Lynch, who died from complications of emphysema astatine his daughter's location connected January 15.

The surrealist manager besides helmed Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive and the much-loved TV amusement Twin Peaks and its sequel Twin Peaks: The Return.

The director, who helmed Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive and the much-loved TV amusement Twin Peaks, passed distant astatine the property of 78.