Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.

Palaest recommended

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Winifred The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

MJB784 The true story about a woman constantly raped and beaten by a ghost in the house. The visuals for the electricity ages, but the performance from Barbara Hershey and other forms of special effects are quite startling. It was very scary and intelligent. Intense and unexpected when the ghost would strike next. Exciting and powerful. Very well done.

BA_Harrison You know what a MILF is, right? Well, Carla (Barbara Hershey), the central character in The Entity, is a MELF — a Mum Entities Like to F**k.A strong, independent, single mother of three, Carla inexplicably finds herself the target of a powerful, sexually aggressive poltergeist that forces itself on her whenever she is alone. At first, Carla struggles to convince anyone of her plight: her best friend Cindy (Margaret Blye) is sympathetic but sceptical, while well-meaning psychiatrist Phil Sneiderman (Ron Silver) dismisses Carla's claims of physical attacks by another being, attributing her predicament to a sexually repressed subconscious.Understandably, Carla is somewhat relieved when one of her encounters with the supernatural is witnessed by a shocked and surprised Cindy and her husband. Satisfied that she isn't losing her marbles, Carla makes contact with a group of college parapsychologists who hatch a plan to isolate and immobilise the pervy poltergeist by freezing it with liquid helium, much to the consternation of disbelieving Dr. Sneiderman.Although The Entity explores similar territory to Tobe Spielberg's Poltergeist (also 1982), the treatment couldn't be more different: where Poltergeist took the popcorn entertainment route, delivering typically Spielbergian spectacle, The Entity, written by Frank De Felitta and directed by Sidney J. Furie, takes matters a little more seriously and manages to be all the more frightening for it. The first few sudden attacks are genuinely scary, helped in no small part by Charles Bernstein's simple yet effective pounding score. Hershey puts in a convincing central performance, and the ever-reliable Ron Silver gives solid support.However, once Carla teams up with the parapsychologists, the film loses momentum, the plot left with very few places to go: subsequent attacks lack the impact of earlier scenes (despite some impressive prosthetic work from Stan Winston), a steadfast Sneiderman comes up with some more sub-Freudian theories to explain his patient's situation, and the scientists dabble with their equipment while looking awe-struck at some weak visual effects. And when all is said and done, there is no satisfying resolution, Furie's film fizzling out with a lame statement that claims the film to have been based on true events.6.5 out of 10, rounded up to 7 for IMDb.

Adam Peters (56%) An effective supernatural horror flick with a strong central performance from Barbara Hershey, as well as decent production values, and capable support. The movie is a lot more rape focused than I was expecting, and this has even more of it than some of the nastier exploitation movies. But with the attacker being an invisible ghost, as well as the story being based on "real" events this didn't fall foul of the censors or the general public. At just over two hours long this really could have done with a trim to get it down to 90 mins, but as a fairly well made, spooky, and quite hard hitting horror that is still watchable today this isn't too bad at all.

Neil Welch Way back in the 70s and 80s, when I was just a young feller, I enthusiastically devoured horror novels by the ton. The large majority of them were called "The (Noun)", and Frank de Fellita wrote several of them including The Entity, duly filmed in 1982.This purports to be an adaptation of true events whereby a young mother is repeatedly raped by an unseen demonic entity of some sort. Her appeals for help bring her the attentions of a psychologist who thinks it is all in her head, and parapsychologists who believe her. They, like us, have seen that it is real.The film does not present us with the question of whether she is doing this herself, there is no question that this is all genuine. The double drama is a) whether she can be saved, and b) who will win the rationality vs parapsychology battle.In a dramatic, but not particularly horrific, movie, Barbara Hershey is excellent as the terrified but defiant young woman. Ron Silver is massively annoying as the bull-headed psychologist. The special effects, good in their day, are now a bit hokey, especially the prosthetic body used to show invisible fingers at work. And the climax is a bit, "Oh. And...?"