The defence The Arthouse Gremlin
“Its refusal to behave is the point.”
The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.
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The Entity
Horror · Mystery · Thriller · 1982
A single mom is raped by an invisible force. Her psychiatrist believes the experience stems from childhood trauma, while she knows something supernatural is at play.
Movie details
The Entity
“There is no escape from something you cannot see.”
1982 Horror · Mystery · Thriller 2h 5m
Critical arithmetic
The consensus, allegedly.
Scores change. Arguments endure.
IMDb
6.7 / 10
19K votes
Rotten Tomatoes
62 %
Tomatometer
Metacritic
35 / 100
Metascore
TMDB
6.8 / 10
Community rating
External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.
A single mom is raped by an invisible force. Her psychiatrist believes the experience stems from childhood trauma, while she knows something supernatural is at play.
CriticWise case file
What this film says about your taste.
Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.
The archetype split
Who fights over The Entity?
For the defence
The Arthouse Gremlin
“The stranger, the better.”
Read their case For the prosecution
The Popcorn Loyalist
“Big screen, big feelings, no apologies.”
Read their objectionThe split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.
Taste neighbourhood
Nearby on the taste map.
TMDB supplies the candidates. CriticWise reorders them by craft, strangeness, prestige, emotion, and pace.
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Hellraiser
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6 Souls
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The Inhabitant
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Names above the title
The people responsible.
Cast & crew
Directed by
Sidney J. Furie
Written by
Frank De Felitta
Barbara Hershey
Carla Moran
Ron Silver
Phil Sneiderman
David Labiosa
Billy
George Coe
Dr. Weber
Margaret Blye
Cindy Nash
Jacqueline Brookes
Dr. Cooley
Richard Brestoff
Gene Kraft
Court is in session
Put The Entity on trial.
Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.
The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist
“Oddness is not depth.”
A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.