Villian(s)  Demonic presence

Actor(s):  Barbara Hershey, Ron Silver, David Labiosa, Margaret Blye

Brief Description  The Entity is a 1982 American supernatural horror film directed by Sidney J. Furie. The plot follows Carla Moran (played by Barbara Hershey), a single mother living in Los Angeles who is violently raped and tormented in her home by an invisible, poltergeist-like force. The movie's screenplay was written by Frank De Felitta, who adapted it directly from his own 1978 bestselling novel. Both the book and the film are based on the 1974 Doris Bither case.

Plot:
The plot follows Carla Moran (played by Barbara Hershey), a single mother living in Los Angeles who is violently raped and tormented in her home by an invisible, poltergeist-like force. As the terrifying attacks escalate in front of her children and even inside her car, Carla seeks help but faces immense skepticism. Her psychiatrist, Dr. Phil Sneiderman (Ron Silver), rationalizes the trauma as delusions stemming from past childhood abuse. Desperate and disbelieved, Carla eventually turns to a team of open-minded parapsychologists who attempt a dangerous experiment to lure, trap, and capture the spectral assailant. Bither was a real-life woman residing in Culver City, California, who claimed she was repeatedly assaulted by invisible forces in her home. Her claims were heavily documented and investigated by doctoral parapsychology students from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).