Film · 1977 · Films · 1970s
Eraserhead
Scored from 536 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).
Summary
A man living in an industrial nightmare world learns his girlfriend is pregnant with a deformed creature, forcing him to confront the surreal horrors of domestic life and fatherhood.
Eraserhead is a 1977 horror, fantasy and drama film directed by David Lynch. Jack Nance and Charlotte Stewart head the billed cast. It runs 1h 29m. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 4,286 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1970s films — 2,406 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 536 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 556 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Eraserhead lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1970s (2,406 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 536.
Cohort: Films · 1970s
