The Entity

1983 "A story so shocking, so threatening, it will frighten you beyond all imagination."
6.7| 2h5m| R| en| More Info
Released: 04 February 1983 Released
Producted By: 20th Century Fox
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
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Carla Moran, a hard-working single mother, is raped in her bedroom by someone — or something — that she cannot see. Despite skeptical psychiatrists, she is repeatedly attacked by this invisible force. Could this be a case of hysteria or something more horrific?

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Unlimitedia Sick Product of a Sick System
Stometer Save your money for something good and enjoyable
Cooktopi The acting in this movie is really good.
Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.
Paul Magne Haakonsen Now, I wasn't familiar with this 1982 movie prior to stumbling upon by sheer random luck. I read the synopsis, and being an avid horror fan I did, of course, have to give it a chance.Supposedly based on real events, which does make the movie somewhat more interesting. Of course it is just a matter of how much was actually real, when it comes down to it."The Entity" had good acting performances and a good cast ensemble. The actors and actresses really took the characters and made them their own and it helped to portray some realistic characters.The attacks on Carla were essentially just the same over and over with very little variation, which made for it to be scary the first time then it just became trivial.The movie is actually faring surprisingly well with very little special effects, especially when taking the age of the movie into consideration.All in all, an entertaining movie for what it turned out to be. But this is hardly the type of movie that you will return to watch a second time.
marieltrokan Any success is based on a defeat. It's impossible for something to succeed without something else having failed. In light of this, it's a success that becomes a failure that's the same as a defeat that becomes a failure - a failure becomes a failure. In the abstract, a failure is when something doesn't meet an expectation - in The Entity, to not meet an expectation becomes to not meet an expectation. To not meet an expectation is to not conduct a physical interaction; failing to conduct an interaction is failing to be an interaction.Failing to be an interaction is failing to be an interaction: the intended interaction is the inability to interact. The very inability to socialise is the intended outcome. Reality wants itself to not socialise. The objective, of reality, is for interaction to not come to be. However, interactions are taking place anyway. The objective is alienation, hostility, and the mistreatment of the objective is kindness and hospitality. An objective is something that has to be created, so in this case, reality needs to create alienation and hostility. The creators can't be alienation and hostility, since that's what's been created. The objective is mistreatment. Creating the mistreatment is mistreatment. The objective is intended mistreatment. Letting the objective happen is unintentional mistreatment. Accidental violence creates intended violence.Intended violence is violence that's created - intended violence is a creator. Intended violence is meant to lack self-awareness. It can't however, because its identity has preceded it. Intended violence is the same as unconscious balance - balance that can't react to itself. Because the balance is technically before when it's supposed to exist, the unconscious balance turns into intended violence - demonic malevolence.The Entity, directed by Sidney J. Furie, is a story about demonic activity being a metaphor for when the ideal balance is forced to become evil and malevolent as a reaction to its own nature being a copy of something else.An ideal balance, is a balance that can't react. The total inability to move is the ideal state. However, what can make things all screwed up is when the balance itself understands itself as a type of incapacity. So in essence, if a balance is able to perceive itself as an "inability", it's fair and justice that the balance should lash out at something outside of it. In The Entity, Carla Moran is a victim, but so is the entity. The entity isn't a demon, but, it is actually just a reality that's been mistreated by having to understand itself as a captive, or as a prisoner. The entity is part of a dimension that's nowhere near as free as the reality that Carla is part of. Carla's reality is complete physical freedom. The problem, that makes The Entity a flawed piece of film-making is that the story fails to illustrate this self-awareness. The writers and the director must have been aware of the ulterior truth to the entity, and why it was attacking Carla (it makes no difference that the story is allegedly based on a true story), and yet the script fails to make proper reference of the possibility that the entity is trapped and needs help. To reiterate: the writers of The Entity must have been aware, of the metaphor to do with ideal balance and the metaphor to do with feeling abused due to the feeling of getting the short end of the stick. So why on earth didn't they make an effort to include this dimension?
Dr. Monster The concept alone is terrifying. It doesn't matter if you are a man or a woman. The idea of an invisible being or force repeatedly attacking you is enough to explore in one film especially a horror film. To do it right you need someone who can sell this to the audience. Someone who will keep it from coming off as sleazy. Thankfully, Barbara Hershey succeeds in her portrayal of Carla Moran and her performance is one of the biggest strengths of the film. However, without Hershey the film would suffer tremendously and fall apart because unfortunately Hershey's performance is not only one of it's biggest strengths, but one of it's only strengths.Now I'm not saying the supporting cast is not good. In fact, the performances by the supporting cast members are solid all around for what the script gives them. As others have pointed out in their reviews the script is indeed sloppy. The tension steadily rises for the first half of the film, but after the halfway point the tension is jagged going up and down to the point that it almost feels like another movie. Of course in order for me to go any further I'd have to go into spoiler territory.***SPOILERS*** Once Carla's friend witnesses the titular Entity in action and Carla no longer feels that she's alone (Hershey does an excellent job portraying the wave of relief one would feel in that situation) the second half of the movie begins leading the film to decline in quality. Earlier I said the second half feels another movie and it does, specifically "Ghostbusters" (1984), but not in a good way. I'm not joking. Carla gets the help of three parapsychologists who help her combat the supernatural Entity and try to capture it. The film even has it's own Walter Peck in the form of Dr. Sneiderman (Ron Silver), who looks like the coke-head executive Harry Ellis from Die Hard. Sneiderman is a character that is fine for the first half of the film, but ruined in the second half no thanks to the sloppy script.In the first half of the film Dr. Sneiderman is portrayed as an understandably skeptical and logical man, who is reasonably reticent to think that Carla is affected by anything supernatural. He comes across as fair, level-headed man of science. Yet that all dissolves at the beginning of the second half. Unlike Walter Peck, who had never talked to eyewitnesses of the supernatural had justification for being skeptical of the supernatural whereas Dr. Sneiderman has none. Dr. Sneiderman devolves into an incredibly annoying, close-minded jerk who ignores eyewitness accounts from several people including Carla's boyfriend. I know I'm spending a lot of time on Dr. Sneiderman, but he really is a big problem for the film during the second half and frankly this character really drags the film down. The psychologists are frustrating to watch at this point because the audience and other characters know there's supernatural forces at work, but they refuse to listen. The end is also a bit of a mess. By that point in the film Hershey and the supporting cast are doing their best with the material they're given. Sadly, the ending leaves much to be desired. You really don't know what the Entity is and this is an instance where ambiguity hurts the film. There is no real satisfaction save for that Carla has become stronger from this ordeal I guess. Other than that there are a lot of unanswered questions and not in any contemplative or compelling way.All in all the Entity is a mixed bag of a horror film that starts off strong for a solid hour, but falters at the second half. Still its worth your time at least for Barbara Hershey's wonderful performance. In short, I personally wouldn't call this one of the 11 scariest films of all time like legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese, but to each their own.
Coco Love 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