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Released
1982 · FILM

The Entity

A terrified single mother fights to protect herself and her child from an unseen assailant that invades their home each night, while a skeptical psychiatrist insists the horror is only in her mind. As the invisible predator escalates its attacks, she must prove its existence before it destroys everything she loves.

“There is no escape from something you cannot see.”

Directed by
Sidney J Furie
Written by
Frank De Felitta
Runtime
125 min
DramaHorror
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

A single mother is assaulted by an invisible force. Her psychiatrist attributes the incident to repressed childhood trauma, but she is convinced that a supernatural entity is responsible.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Frank J UriosteShot by Stephen H BurumScored by Charles BernsteinDesigned by Charles Rosen

Box Office

1982 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.5× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$13.3M

Budget$9.0M
Worldwide gross$13.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Entity – Es gibt kein Entrinnen vor dem Unsichtbaren, das uns verfolgtde
  • El entees
  • L'Emprisefr

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