Is Eraserhead actually good?

Eraserhead sits in the 54.0% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 54.0% of them.

How does Eraserhead compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1970s, Eraserhead lands in the 45.3% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Eraserhead's score based on?

536 calibrated reviewers stand behind Eraserhead's score.

1977

global pct

54.0

Film · 1977 · Films · 1970s

Eraserhead

Name: Eraserhead
Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Drama
Released: 1977
Duration: 1 h 29 min
Cast: Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart

Scored from 536 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).

54.0%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

45.3%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles

65.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

536 calibrated reviewers

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 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 556 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

HorrorFantasyDrama

Is Eraserhead (1977) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 536
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1970s

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