To me, this movie is perfection.

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

THE ENTITY might well be the most disturbing ghost story ever filmed. Supposedly based on true events, this tells of a suburban mother who finds herself of the victim of a malignant ghost who rapes her – over and over again. I've always hated watching rape scenes in films and there are loads here, all of them utterly disturbing, with terrifying special effects of a woman being groped by invisible fingers. The banging music on the soundtrack always signals the arrival of the evil spirit and these scenes are truly nerve-shattering.Otherwise what we have is a fairly traditionally-plotted supernatural horror film. It starts off fairly quietly, with the heroine disbelieved by her shrink, but gradually the events increase in scope and ferocity and before long paranormal investigators get involved. The film works best in the first half, with a good level of realism before special effects kick in and it all gets a bit like POLTERGEIST (although never quite as over the top as that film). Barbara Hershey is the kind of actress who can really sell her role in this film, putting in a fraught performance packed with fear, emotion and courage. Ron Silver is also naturally charismatic as the shrink who refuses to believe what's really happening to his patient.I'd seen this film once long ago and had totally forgotten the ending, which involves a scientific experiment on a huge scale. Despite some slightly shoddy effects work I really like the concept of this climax and the way science is used to combat the entity, rather than bringing in the usual cliché of the exorcism. Is this a decent, well-made film? I'd have to say yes. It's only the fact that the supernatural rape scenes, packed full of gratuitous nudity, are pretty distasteful that stop me giving this movie a higher rating. I just can't enjoy a film with such repulsive subject matter, even if it is chilling and disturbing with it. Incredibly, a Bollywood remake was made in 2003 entitled HAWA!

I knew this was kind of scary movie, and from the title it suggested something to do with the paranormal, and being one I had heard of a few times I was definitely up for giving it a go, directed by Sidney J. Furie (The Ipcress File, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace). Basically Carla Moran (Barbara Hershey) is an ordinary single mother, one night she is violently attacked and raped, but the assailant is invisible. Carla talks about her experience to her family and friends, but she is shunned and they think she has gone, so she speaks to a psychiatrist, Dr. Phil Sneiderman (Ron Silver), she tentatively agrees to undergo therapy. Another attack occurs, Carla is left with bite marks and bruises, but with past traumas in her childhood and adolescence, including sexual and physical abuse, teenage pregnancy and the violent death of her first husband, the doctors believes she has inflicted them on herself. However, Carla's children witness an attack for themselves, Dr. Sneiderman urges her to commit herself to a psychiatric hospital for observation, but she refuses, instead turning to parapsychologists, they witness several paranormal activities and agree to study the home. Carla is reassured that she is being taken seriously, and after more attacks and studying, she agrees to to participate in an elaborate parapsychologist experiment, a full mock-up of her home is created to lure the entity into a trap, they will attempt to freeze the spirit in liquid helium. The experiment goes ahead, Carla does indeed have the unseen being attempting to attack her, it is frozen and trapped in a mass of ice, Dr. Sneiderman finally believes her, it eventually breaks free and vanishes. Carla returns home, and the end text says that the entity remains present, but the attacks have become less frequent and less severe than previously. Also starring David Labiosa as Billy, George Coe as Dr. Weber, Margaret Blye as Cindy Nash, Jacqueline Brookes as Dr. Cooley, Richard Brestoff as Gene Kraft and Michael Alldredge as George Nash. Hershey gives a very good performance as the innocent woman suffering at the hands of invisible demonic force, other characters question if she is crazy for a while, of course they realise the terror is real, there is only a little special effects stuff, but the tension of this complex chiller is ramped up at the right moments, overall it is an atmospheric enough "fact-based" psychological and supernatural horror thriller. Worth watching!

This movie is awful I'm sorry if I'm a bit nasty as in sexual laughing out loud but that ghost was sexing her real good I was getting horny for a minute but I hate the movie so much the reason why I'm giving it two stars is because it did get me horny but I wouldn't recommend this to nobody to watch action was alright but it was boring and it seemed faked I mean I wish they would had gave this movie to a person with more upgrading Equipment other then this movie I'm trying to stop writing this site wants me to write a freaking long assessment shoot getting on my nerves I hate the movie that should be it I'm on my phone writing this man

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...?"