Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

I had seen the horror flick "The Entity" once many years ago. I had forgotten just how truly terrifying this story is. These are not half-ass "jump scares". These are bare-knuckle punches to the jaw. They come immediately. And they never relent. Barbara Hershey is astonishing in a role as difficult and demanding as can possibly be imagined. Very few actresses could have played her character as convincingly nor with such humanity. Ron Silver is one of my favorite actors. He is perfection as a critical component in this story.You'll notice I'm not mentioning a plot. I could, but it would not render proper justice here. You have simply got to see the film. As you watch, you, like me, will constantly be asking, "What in the hell would I do? What CAN I do?" The chilling epilogue presented during the final seconds of "The Entity" make these questions even more disturbing. This one sticks with you.

Saw this in the mid 80s on a VHS. Found it to be somewhat disturbing then. Revisited this recently on a DVD. The movie hasn't aged well. The best thing about the film was the excellent performance by Hershey. She looked very attractive. The movie is about a single mother with 3 kids going thru a tough time n to top it all she suddenly starts getting raped repeatedly by an unseen force. She turns to a psychologist, Dr Spiderman for help, sorry Sneiderman n later she is aided by a team of parapsychologists. The best part was that in the entire film ther is no mention of the word ghost. Also ther is no exorcism or priest or people like the ones from The Conjuring. The movie was a bit lame n tedious at times. Apart from the nipple pressing scene done very well, there is nothing more. It lacked the tension n suspense. Ther is no proper explanation given as to what exactly was it n y it was doing all the rape. The movie is not at all scary.

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!

Barbara Hershey plays Carla Moran, a divorced mother who finds herself repeatedly terrorized and assaulted by disembodied forces(ghosts?) in her home. Her children(especially her teenage son) are powerless to help, and it even scares away her boyfriend(played by Alex Rocco). She eventually seeks help from parapsychologists at a nearby college, who seem able to help, though her psychiatrist(played effectively by Ron Silver) is utterly disbelieving and openly contemptuous of such supernatural ideas, though also finds himself attracted to Carla, whom he thinks in suffering from emotional repression, though later events would indicate otherwise...Strong and uncompromising thriller is well acted and even scary, but treats its subject with unfortunate lurid exploitation, further hurt by an overwrought finale in a laboratory isolation chamber. Strong potential not realized properly, though remains intriguing.