The Entity
1983 Directed by Sidney J. Furie
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The ultimate story of supernatural terror!
Barbara Hershey stars as Carla Moran, a hard-working single mother until the night she is raped in her bedroom by someone - or something - that she cannot see. Despite skeptical psychiatrists, she is repeatedly attacked in her car, in the bath, and in front of her children. Could this be a case of hysteria, a manifestation of childhood sexual trauma, or something even more horrific?
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Equal parts Posession and Poltergeist, The Entity is a disturbing horror movie that features an amazing performance by Barbara Hershey.
The Entity throws its audience into the deep end right off the bat, and from there on, pretty much anything could happen. Barbara Hershey gives all that she has to the role, and then some. Her performance makes already disturbing material all that more disturbing and hard to watch.
The Entity is not an easy watch, but it is a very interesting one.
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dont fuck with ghosts.....
or do ?
love this film , grea special FX for 1983 and Barbara Hershey always makes me feel a little scared.. .
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The Entity had a great sense of place which made it feel like an adventure film. I love the ghost films that make you feel like an attack can happen anywhere at anytime. It's kind of like an episode of SVU, but with ghosts.
The blu ray transfer was awesome as well. Anchor Bay is doing a little better, as their output has been very lacking as of late.
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Been a while since I've seen this one, was in the mood, so I felt like watching it.
No doubt that this is certainly a very underrated horror film, and 30 years later it's still creepy and has aged well.
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For all its surface nastiness, a very generous film. As Ryland said in the aftermath, every point of view and experience gets taken fully seriously. No deck is stacked, every character is potentially valid or correct, motivations are complicated, etc. For instance, Ron Silver would seem to be the person most able and sincere in helping Barbara Hershey, and he is largely noble, but he also pushes his theories too strongly, seems to harbor not-particularly-pure sexual desire for her, and lets campus politics bleed into his interactions with the para-psychologists. And it's that way for every character, save maybe the three children, who are either too oblivious or mostly useful as tools for the adults in their various arguments.
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Unreal.
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This supposedly fact based supernatural sexual assault story is a fairly original take on the typical haunting tale but the dramatics ultimately fail, leaving the more striking imagery to be used to it greatest effect in the work of Peter Tscherkassky.
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All I can say is ... if you're making a story about a woman who is repeatedly raped by a ghost, deadly serious is probably not the best approach. An intriguing premise is systematically destroyed by a dull and stuffy big studio horror approach.
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Been a while since I've seen this one, was in the mood, so I felt like watching it.
No doubt that this is certainly a very underrated horror film, and 30 years later it's still creepy and has aged well.
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Curious tale of a rapey manifestation. The film suffers because the viewer's given no reason to doubt whilst the protagonists are.
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For all its surface nastiness, a very generous film. As Ryland said in the aftermath, every point of view and experience gets taken fully seriously. No deck is stacked, every character is potentially valid or correct, motivations are complicated, etc. For instance, Ron Silver would seem to be the person most able and sincere in helping Barbara Hershey, and he is largely noble, but he also pushes his theories too strongly, seems to harbor not-particularly-pure sexual desire for her, and lets campus politics bleed into his interactions with the para-psychologists. And it's that way for every character, save maybe the three children, who are either too oblivious or mostly useful as tools for the adults in their various arguments.
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Even more fun with my besties in the after hours.
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Unreal.
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One of the major touchstones in Kier-La Janisse's HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN, this is a deeply unsettling and disturbing but also fascinating film. It's not extremely scary (though watching it in daytime with the curtains open probably helped) but it gets you at a visceral level, and the conclusion is absolutely chilling.