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Eraser
Directed by Chuck Russell
Eraser, an elite federal marshal who "erases" the pasts of jeopardized informers and relocates them into safe anonymity, must protect a moving target who stands to uncover a conspiracy that could shift the balance of power in the world forever. From TMDB
154 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Oct 28, 2026 · last updated Oct 29, 2026 · How this works
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Eraser is a 1996 action mystery thriller film, directed by Chuck Russell, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Caan and Vanessa Williams.
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60 of 154 · most liked firstI watched Eraser tonight. I never seen it before but from the box art I thought it would be a more grounded film. I was wrong. It has every single Arnold trope in existence. He shoots an alligator in the face and says "you're luggage".
positive · AI labelView post →#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched The Fury (78) - De Palma at his absolute 12th best Eraser (96) - Arnie Action Movie™. Does everything an Arnie action movie should do. Django (66) - the best coffin dragging gunslinger movie around. The Terminator (84) - MichaelFassbenderPerfect.gif
neutral · AI labelView post →OK I think I will make a one (1) popcorm and watch a movie Tubi, what should I watch? "Riverdance! Live from Beijing!" I... what?? Can I watch something else??? "Well earlier you watched ERASER, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Vanessa Williams! You'll LOVE Riverdance!" But
neutral · AI labelView post →Remember the 90s Schwarzenegger movie Eraser? Or the Charlie Sheen alien conspiracy thriller The Arrival? Or Keanu as Johnny Mnemonic? Well all three of these received FMV adventure games that CRUSHED MY ENTIRE SOUL IN UNIQUE AND HELLISH WAYS. My suffering distilled into 90 minutes, just for you:
neutral · AI labelView post →I worked at the movie theater the year her movie with Arnold, The Eraser, came out (1996). Not the best movie. But it had its upside.
neutral · AI labelView post →Eraser: Turnabout (1996, PC) This game is a (sorta) sequel to the 1996 Schwarzenegger film by the same name and is mostly FMV. While it's not a very good game, I love any chance I get to post real plants. I especially love the cursed, found footage feel of the second pic, good stuff!
neutral · AI labelView post →I interviewed Wes Anderson. It was the morning of my birthday and I was a little groggy and I’m listening to myself try to explain the ending of ERASER, of all things (yes the Schwarzenegger movie), to him and I’m thinking, “wait, what am I doing?” bit.ly/4dKzRzT
neutral · AI labelView post →The Mask. Dream Warriors. The Blob. Chuck Russell was an iconic filmmaker. And, for me, he directed the first R-rated movie I ever watched in a theater, ERASER. Just saw him at the Masters of Horror dinner. Never thought it'd be the last time. Thanks for everything, Chuck.
neutral · AI labelView post →ERASER is such a fun movie. 90% of it is normal-scale thriller stuff like shootouts and explosions and shipping containers and then occasionally Arnold has to fight a plane or a CGI alligator and also there’s a sci-fi gun that shoots rounds at the literal speed of light. From the auteur of THE MASK.
positive · AI labelView post →That movie, of course, was ERASER starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie Eraser Head is so great my favorite part is when Mr. Eraser Head says, "Hey it's me, Mr. Eraser Head. Here I am, I'm gonna erase some stuff with my head, watch out, people writing things in pencil"
neutral · AI labelView post →Eraser: A movie I went into expecting a very dumb action movie and it punched surprisingly above its weight class. Arnie plays a very empathetic and considered witness protection guy, he has a lovely rapport with Vanessa Williams, and the action rules. Pro union, anti fed, a great time
positive · AI labelView post →Watching ERASER and the electromagnetic pulse gun is still one of the coolest movie weapons I've ever seen.
positive · AI labelView post →Chuck Russell was one of the great genre directors. NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3: DREAM WARRIORS, the awesome THE BLOB remake, the Jim Carrey hit THE MASK, and the underrated Schwarzenegger flick ERASER. He also directed a Hindi martial arts film about kicking elephant poacher ass, called JUNGLEE.
neutral · AI labelView post →Honestly, the last photo I have of myself looks like a Republican campaign photo! "Nora and I are fighting for upper-class tax cuts and making it legal to own those rail guns from the 1990s action film ERASER."
neutral · AI labelView post →After weeks of putting off Predator Badlands I feel the time has finally arrived There's nothing else to get in the way Let's sit down and watch.... wait... what's that 1996s Arnie action movie Eraser? You want me to watch you instead? Well, if you insist.
neutral · AI labelView post →RIP. Seeing The Blob remake at age 10 fucked me up for the rest of my childhood. Dream Warriors is easily the best Nightmare sequel. Cameron Diaz singing in The Mask is maybe a top 5 'best a human being has ever looked on film' moment. And you know what fuck it we're watching Eraser tonight.
neutral · AI labelView post →Had a blast speaking with director Chuck Russell for the 30th Anniversary of his conspiracy actioner ERASER. We talked about its stacked cast, the Rell gun & what it was like to see TOP GUN: MAVERICK pay homage to one of its scenes. freshfiction.tv/eraser-30th-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Here’s my #VHS tribute to the late Chuck Russell (I wish I had a copy of his amazing The Blob film). He didn’t get to direct a lot, yet he directed two of the greatest movies of my lifetime…and Eraser 😉 RIP to a very talented individual.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching a Schwarzenegger film from the 90s (Eraser) and I miss when computers were cool and fun instead of terrifying
positive · AI labelView post →Eraser head has been my favorite film for ever….along with the life and death of Colonel Blimp …a real loss
neutral · AI labelView post →My fave Arnold movie! Eraser.
positive · AI labelView post →"History Eraser Button"-lookin sink. "Bath time in the Kubrick film"-lookin sink.
neutral · AI labelView post →Art supply review for the Caran d'Ache Technik Eraser: This eraser is like a fucked up snuff weapon for cartoons. They're using this to kill people dead in the direct to VHS Who Framed Roger Rabbit sequel. Never heard of that film? That's because it got erased by this eraser.
neutral · AI labelView post →THE MASK is probably his most successful movie - and it's a pretty amazing work of adaptation/transformation given the source material. Also, I'd say ERASER was the last really solid Schwarzenegger flick of his 80s/90s action hero run. I never saw his WITCHBOARD remake from 2024, but I'm curious to.
neutral · AI labelView post →Dream Warriors is the best Nightmare movie, The Blob remake is peak, and Eraser is one of my favorite Arnie flicks No idea he did all three Rip to a legend of making movies that make you go “hell yeah”
positive · AI labelView post →#PopularDrinksInASongOrMovie 📽️A Beautiful Mind Eraser📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →“The internet movie firearms database” (a thing I just learned exists) has some scientific quibbles with the movie rail gun: www.imfdb.org/wiki/(Eraser...
neutral · AI labelView post →Deeply saddened to learn of the passing of writer/director Chuck Russell at the age of 74. Among his movies (THE MASK, NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3, ERASER, SCORPION KING etc), I hold a very special place in my heart for his 1988 remake of THE BLOB, pure joy in a horror movie. Rest in peace, Chuck!
neutral · AI labelView post →Operation Monster Force LT Griffin “The Eraser” I love the Universal Monsters movie The Invisible Man so getting this in my collection was a no brainer. Love the see through bits, the armor the story it’s all so awesome.
neutral · AI labelView post →ELM STREET 3 is my favorite of the series. Had a poster for THE BLOB on my wall way back when. Still have a soft spot for ERASER which I saw opening night at the Chinese. I'm very sad to hear this news. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
neutral · AI labelView post →I won’t call Russell a stealth genius or anything, but he was kinda the master of The Movie That’s A Fair Bit Better Than You Thought It Was Gonna Be: The Blob, The Mask, Eraser, especially Elm Street 3.
neutral · AI labelView post →Sven Ole Thorsen is in this movie and gets killed but not by Arnold so ERASER does not count towards the "Arnie kills Sven Ole Thorsen" trend.
neutral · AI labelView post →For the longest time I kept getting this confused with the 96 Schwarzenegger flick “Eraser” and kept wondering why people thought that film was so deep.
neutral · AI labelView post →I remembered Eraser as a kinda okay actioner from the 90s. Revisiting in 4K, the film holds up much better than expected. My latest from MovieWeb 👇
positive · AI labelView post →Blade, Superman, and the chick from Eraser walk into a straight to video movie. Tell me if ya heard this one... #FrightClub #FutureSport (1998) 🤖🛰📡🚀👾🏐⚽️🏒🏉🏓🏈⛳️🏅🥊
neutral · AI labelView post →I could be trusted with the rail gun from the 1996 film Eraser
neutral · AI labelView post →Post a 90s movie that starts with the letter E? Eraser (1996)
neutral · AI labelView post →Not his best movie, but when I moved to NYC in the summer of 1996, I would watch four to five movies a day. When ERASER came out, I'd use it as a buffer when I couldn't sync up a rep screening. Such a fun movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Also made the best NOES film not directed by Wes Craven and the very stupid, but genuinely fun, Arnie vehicle Eraser. RIP
positive · AI labelView post →I rewatched ERASER the other day, remembering that movie as his COBRA and discovered it's ... not that bad? And Schwarzenegger is trying to play a caring and committed professional who maintains a respectable emotional distance from Vanessa Williams? I'm not even sure Stallone acts in COBRA.
neutral · AI labelView post →Before I talked to Chuck Russell about Eraser, I asked Chuck Russell about the movie he was supposed to make with mega-The Mask fan Arnold Schwarzenegger www.polygon.com/arnold-schwa...
neutral · AI labelView post →24: Eraser in a movie where Schwarzenegger dual wields railguns, this movie lives entirely on how much you enjoy the zoo scene, which features no railguns at all. about on par with The 6th Day, a movie I also enjoyed that wasn't that great
neutral · AI labelView post →Now I'm not dissing the movie but is there an audience clamoring to pay 50 knicker for an Eraser collectors edition
negative · AI labelView post →My 4 year-old son has decided today of all days he wants to make a short film. I take this as a sign so going to sit them down and watch Eraser Head now.
neutral · AI labelView post →"ERASER was the last semi-decent Arnie movie; the exclamation mark and definitive stop on an iconic 'the name is an event' type of moviemaking that is completely dead in action cinema now..." boxd.it/f5Argx
positive · AI labelView post →Not a single moment in the film doesn't feel real and tangible. Even at the time, there were thrillers with shitty CGI or Greenscreen (Eraser comes to mind). Here, whatever little use of they made (Ford jumping from the bus) is perfect. You can't see the stitches.
neutral · AI labelView post →OK, this was great, proper...loved this. If you like your drama uncomfortable and you're fairly certain the person who made it liked liked Russian literature *and* David Lynch, with a nod to Eraser Head *and* musical theatre, then this is your film! 9 and 1/2 out of 10. Honest... great film.⭐️
neutral · AI labelView post →when Arnold delivers the line "you've been erased" in the film Eraser, what is he really saying? Is it possible to fully erase anyone?
neutral · AI labelView post →ERASER (1996). This movie is fucking amazing, it makes so little sense but it fucking rocks.
positive · AI labelView post →The opposite of this is when I was 15 my dad briefly went into the hospital; my mom happened to catch most of the Arnold Schwarzenegger film ERASER and spent a good hour and a half explaining the movie to me (I’ve never seen it)
neutral · AI labelView post →I don't have it anymore (probably for the best; it'd probably be embarrassing to me now) but when I was briefly in film school for one assignment I edited a compilation video of scenes of my favorite movie villains framed by her speech and set to NIN's song "Eraser" - that feels like Sean content!
neutral · AI labelView post →Yal remember the movie “Eraser” with Aronold Schwarzenegger and Vanessa Williams? That’s a movie I’d love to see remade. But the original one is so good.
positive · AI labelView post →Sometimes I watch a movie like Eraser and they explain acronyms and I’m like “duh everyone knows that” but then I think maybe I just know that because I watched Eraser a dozen times when I was 15
neutral · AI labelView post →📽️Watch movies with me! I do fun things like this: I worked out that the gun in ERASER, given how it’s described in that film would 1. Not work 2. If it did, the recoil would throw Arnold backwards at 80,000 mph when he fired it
neutral · AI labelView post →I wonder how that would work, IRL. Like, the penalty for some crime is...you disappear. That's it. Like, you cease to exist. Everything you own is liquidated, you're given the money in some random currency and your identity is shredded. You're a new person dropped in a new country with just cash and a new passport that says you can't come back. That's gotta be the premise to some book or movie or something right? Like *Eraser* meets *Skyrim*?
neutral · AI labelView post →Apple TV show the same trailer before everything, regardless of how far it is from anything I've watched. Me: lines up another existential drama so physically & thematically dark it can only be viewed while cocooned in a blanket. Apple TV: RYAN REYNOLDS PLAYS AN ERASER IN PENCIL CASE: THE MOVIE!
neutral · AI labelView post →Eraser isn't a great film????
negative · AI labelView post →Directed some absolute bangers, The Blob obviously, but also The Mask and maybe the best Elm Street sequel? And that one insane gun from Eraser is well worth wading through the rest of the movie for.
neutral · AI labelView post →Eraser is an underrated TBS movie.
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