The Entity

Infobox_Film
name = The Entity


caption = "The Entity" DVD cover
imdb_id = 0082334
producer = Harold Schneider
director = Sidney J. Furie
writer = Frank deFelitta (novel and screenplay)
starring = Barbara Hershey
Ron Silver
David Labiosa
Margaret Blye
music = Charles Bernstein
cinematography = Stephen H. Burum
editing = Frank J. Urioste | distributor = 20th Century Fox
released = February 4, 1983
runtime = 125 min.
country = United States
language = English

"The Entity" is a 1981 horror film starring Barbara Hershey as Carla Moran, a California woman who was tormented by an unseen entity.

The film is allegedly based on the life of the real Carlotta Moran, who claims to continue to be assaulted by an invisible being, though with lesser frequency and intensity (more recently it is claimed she no longer suffers from physical attacks, but still experiences visual phenomena such as those seen in the movie)Fact|date=February 2007. It opened to major critical panning and was called misogynistic and unnecessarily sexually graphic.Fact|date=May 2008

A remake of the movie is being planned by Japanese director Hideo Nakata. [ [http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117942593.html?categoryid=1977&cs=1&query=%22The+Entity%22 "Fox holding 'Grudge' guy to new deal" - Variety] ]

There is also a novel of the same name written by Frank DeFelitta (first published in 1978), which provides a more detailed account of Carla (or Carlotta) Moran's, other possible name Doris Bither or Byther supposed experiences. The supposed haunting took place in Culver City, California, USA.

Plot

In the film, Carla lives with her children in a home in Los Angeles. One evening, she is violently raped by an unseen being, and she assumes that it was just a nightmare, so her son says. But after her room goes crazy, she seeks refuge at a friends house. Returning home, she is raped in the bathroom by the invisible being, with the help of two little ones. She goes to a psychiartrist (played by Ron Silver) because she suspects she is suffering from some sort of mental illness. He concurs, suggesting that she is manifesting hallucinated experiences based on a fear of sex, possibly instilled in Carla by her upbringing. However, her car gets controlled, and her friend becomes a witness.

Finally assured of the legitimacy of her experiences, Carla seeks help from a paranormal research team. They accompany Carla to her home to try and help, and it seems that they succeed after all the ghost can do is cause a circuit. Unfortunately, when a lover comes to stay the night, he leaves the room briefly only to return and find Carla nude and pinned to the bed by an unseen force. Her breasts are pulsating rhythmically, as if being massaged by unseen hands, while she begs him for help. Although Carla's lover tries to help by hitting the entity with a chair, he ends up hitting Carla in the head, and Carla's son rushes to attack Carla's lover, assuming he was trying to kill Carla.

Eventually the team of parapsychologists come up with a plan. They set up a home-like location with guns prepared to spray everything with liquid helium. They presume that since the being can manipulate physical things, it must have physical mass, and therefore can be frozen. The team shows Carla around her house, showing there's no ceiling and lots of surveillance cameras, but the bathroom has a ceiling and no surveillance. There's no plumbing as the team supplies the water for Carla. Carla's psychiartrist tries to get her out, still thinking she's mentally ill, but he decides to watch the whole incident. Later, the being strikes and is so powerful that it takes control of the spray nozzles and attempts to kill Carla with the helium. Ultimately she faces off with it, (though she can't see it) stating that it can kill her, torture her and rape her whenever it wants, but will never touch the core of who she is. In an act of fury, the being bursts the liquid helium tanks and freezes itself, revealing that it is absolutely gigantic in size. All this is witnessed by Carla's psychiatrist, who up until now did not believe she was telling the truth. Carla disappears and the government disbelieves the incident despite him seeing it.

Ultimately, Carla decides to move out of the house with her family and drives away. The movie ends stating that the attacks, though decreased in frequency and intensity, continue.

References

* [http://www.a-galaxy-of-stars.co.uk/index.php?name=Sections&req=viewarticle&artid=165&allpages=1&theme=Printer] The Real Entity Case

External links

*imdb title|id=0082334|title=The Entity
*imdb title|id=0420602|title=The Entity (2008)