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The Entity: Themes & Legacy

The Entity is a 1982 American supernatural horror film directed by Sidney J. Furie, and starring Barbara Hershey, Ron Silver, David Labiosa, Maggie Blye, Jacqueline Brookes, and Alex Rocco. The film follows a single mother in Los Angeles who is raped and tormented by an invisible poltergeist-like entity in her home. It was adapted for the screen by Frank…

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The Entity topic overview

The analysis highlights Themes and Legacy as prominent areas in the source structure around The Entity.

Related topics
99
Source areas
8
Connected nodes
107
Extracted relationships
108
Concept neighborhoods
21
Bridge connections
107

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Reception and legacy · 22 topics
Production · 19 topics
Overview · 18 topics
Plot · 10 topics
Release · 10 topics
Remake · 9 topics
Themes · 7 topics
Cast · 4 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Based on
The Entity by Frank De Felitta
Box office
$13.3 million
Budget
$9 million–$10 million
Cinematography
Stephen H. Burum
Country
United States
Directed by
Sidney J. Furie

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Plot

Cast

Themes

Production

Release

Reception and legacy

Remake

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How The Entity connects Entity context

The extracted context around The Entity shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, The Entity → American Cinema International Productions, And, Burum, Dutch, El Segundo, Furie, June, Jury, Labiosa, Labiosa's, Los Angeles, March, Moran, Principal, Roman Polanski, Stephen, Stylistically, The, There, Tough Enough Another extracted example is The Entity → At, Bill Kaufman, Critic Roger Ebert, De Felitta's, Hershey, Hershey's, Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times, Metacritic, Movies, Never, New York Times, Newsday, On, Richard, Rotten Tomatoes, Shepard, Silver's. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

The Entity

Top relations

related to Filming · 20
The Entity → American Cinema International Productions, And, Burum, Dutch, El Segundo, Furie, June, Jury, Labiosa, Labiosa's, Los Angeles, March, Moran, Principal, Roman Polanski, Stephen, Stylistically, The, There, Tough Enough
related to Critical response · 18
The Entity → At, Bill Kaufman, Critic Roger Ebert, De Felitta's, Hershey, Hershey's, Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times, Metacritic, Movies, Never, New York Times, Newsday, On, Richard, Rotten Tomatoes, Shepard, Silver's
related to Screenplay · 14
The Entity → Barbara Hershey, Bither, Carla Moran, Doris Bither, Furie, In, Instead, July, Michael Doyle, Neither, Rue Morgue, Screenwriter Frank De Felitta, Sidney, The
related to Themes · 13
The Entity → Brad Stevens, British Film Institute, Carla Moran, Daniel Kremer, Despite, Extra-Terrestrial, Film, Gothic, If, Michael Doyle, Rue Morgue, Steven Spielberg's, Stevens
related to Home media · 12
The Entity → Anchor Bay Entertainment, Blu-ray, CBS/Fox Video, DVD, Eureka Entertainment, In December, July, On June, Scream Factory, United Kingdom, VHS, Zavvi
related to Release · 8
The Entity → Century Fox, February, It, September, The, United Kingdom, United States, Universal Pictures
related to External links · 5
The Entity → Box Office MojoThe Entity, Doris Bither's, IMDbThe Entity, MetacriticGhostTheory, Rotten TomatoesThe Entity
Release dates · 2
The Entity → February 4, 1983 (1983-02-04) (United States), September 30, 1982 (1982-09-30) (United Kingdom)
Based on · 1
The Entity → The Entity by Frank De Felitta
Box office · 1
The Entity → $13.3 million

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

film entity carla furie hershey dr carla's home sneiderman moran sexual los angeles release united sidney case barbara screenplay released

The Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 108 structured relationships around The Entity. Examples in this analysis include The Entity → Based on → The Entity by Frank De Felitta and The Entity → Box office → $13.3 million. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
The EntityBased onThe Entity by Frank De Felitta1.00infobox
The EntityBox office$13.3 million1.00infobox
The EntityBudget$9 million–$10 million1.00infobox
The EntityCinematographyStephen H. Burum1.00infobox
The EntityCountryUnited States1.00infobox
The EntityDirected bySidney J. Furie1.00infobox
The EntityDistributed by20th Century Fox1.00infobox
The EntityEdited byFrank J. Urioste1.00infobox
The EntityLanguageEnglish1.00infobox
The EntityMusic byCharles Bernstein1.00infobox
The EntityProduced byHarold Schneider1.00infobox
The EntityProduction companyAmerican Cinema International1.00infobox
The EntityRelease datesSeptember 30, 1982 (1982-09-30) (United Kingdom)1.00infobox
The EntityRelease datesFebruary 4, 1983 (1983-02-04) (United States)1.00infobox
The EntityRunning time125 minutes1.00infobox
The EntityScreenplay byFrank De Felitta1.00infobox
The EntityStarringBarbara Hershey1.00infobox
The Entityis a1982 American supernatural horror film directed by Sidney J0.90text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around The Entity bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Film, Carla and Screenplay. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • The Entity
    • Film
    • Carla
    • Screenplay
    • Hershey
    • Bither
    • Doris
    • Invisible
    • Based
    • Supernatural
    • Angeles
    • Barbara
    • Case
  • the entity
    • Film
    • Carla
    • Screenplay
    • Hershey
    • Bither
    • Doris
    • Invisible
    • Based
    • Supernatural
    • Angeles
    • Barbara
    • Case
  • supernatural horror film
    • Bither
    • Doris
    • Based
    • Barbara
    • Case
    • Sidney
    • Hershey
    • Sexual
    • Furie
    • Released
    • American
    • Entity
  • british film institute
    • Hershey
    • Sexual
    • Furie
    • Released
    • David
    • Doris
    • Based
    • Supernatural
    • Angeles
    • Barbara
    • Los
    • United
  • sidney j. furie
    • Hershey
    • Supernatural
    • Screenplay
    • Bither
    • David
    • Doris
    • Based
    • Box
    • Office
    • Release
    • Production
    • Barbara
  • barbara hershey
    • Hershey
    • Based
    • Supernatural
    • Furie
    • Moran
    • Bither
    • Doris
    • Case
    • Screenplay
    • Sidney
    • Entity
    • David
  • american cinema productions
    • Production
    • Box
    • Office
    • 20th
    • Century
    • David
    • Invisible
    • Release
    • Fox
    • One
    • Supernatural
    • Angeles
  • university of california, los angeles
    • Los
    • Invisible
    • Parapsychology
    • Home
    • Moran
    • Box
    • Office
    • Entity
    • 20th
    • Century
    • Release
    • Fox

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For The Entity, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects The Entity with Reception and legacy. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
The EntityReception and legacy · splits 85 ⟂ 23
The EntityProduction · splits 88 ⟂ 20
The EntityOverview · splits 89 ⟂ 19
The EntityPlot · splits 97 ⟂ 11
The EntityRelease · splits 97 ⟂ 11
The EntityRemake · splits 98 ⟂ 10
The EntityThemes · splits 100 ⟂ 8
The EntityCast · splits 103 ⟂ 5

Map overview Semantic statistics

The Entity

Nodes108
Edges107
Triples108
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.018519
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around The Entity to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Themes & Legacy, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — The Entity · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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