By Geno McGahee
I haven’t seen THE ENTITY in about 20 years. I remember it really had an impact on the younger version of me. It’s not every day that you see a woman repeatedly raped by a ghost. It took me that long to have the courage to watch this again. I also found it for five bucks on Blu Ray and for that, you really can’t go wrong.
Carla (Barbara Hershey) is having some issues. She is living in her big house with her teen son and two young children when she is viciously attacked and raped. This movie brings you right in with the intense score and suggestive visuals. It allows your imagination to work. They didn’t put a CGI ghost dick in there. You know there’s a ghost dick. We don’t need to see it. If you do, shame on you.
Convinced that it was a regular dick, Carla asks her son to search the house for the rapist. Everything is locked up tight and she is convinced by her son that it was only a nightmare. “Well that nightmare had a 10 inch prick,” she boomed. No, never mind…she didn’t say that.
The ghost attacks more viciously and she now knows that she is dealing with a haunting of the worst kind. Shockingly, this is based on a true story. My heart goes out to all ghost rape victims.
Carla goes to see a psychologist, Dr. Sneiderman (Ron Silver), and he attempts to help her and convinces her that prior sexual abuse or something of the sort is manifesting these ghost rapes in her mind. He looks at her with a “I ain’t afraid of no ghost” look, and she begins to buy it, but the rapes continue and she becomes more desperate. The ghost doesn’t even stay at the house like most ghosts. This one bugs her everywhere she goes.
Researching ghost rape at the bookstore, Carla runs into some paranormal researchers and convinces them that she is being haunted by a horny demon. They go to her home and the ghost is not shy and now they vow to rid her of her issue, eventually constructing a fake house to freeze the horny devil and stop the abuse. They have to deal with the non-believer Sneiderman butting in. For him to believe, the ghost would have had to rape him. It didn’t happen, unless it was in the deleted scenes.
THE ENTITY has quite the following, but I found it rather mediocre. Some of the special effects were good, especially for 1982, and the score was badass, but the film is sort of repetitive and flat. It is worth a watch, but I wouldn’t put this in the same league as THE OMEN or THE EXORCIST or even the AMITYVILLE HORROR. It’s just OK. The ghost rape scenes are what sets it apart. They are graphic and props to Hershey and the filmmakers for creating it through the acting and the shots they used.
In the end, I do recommend THE ENTITY. It may be another 20 years before I watch it again, but if you are a first time ghost rape sort of person, it’s for you.
Rating: 5.5/10 – Ray Parker JR … don’t bend over.
