Does any one know this movie??!
Question: It's an old 70's or 80's movie. It takes place in LA and a woman is haunted by a ghost. The ghost rapes her and beats her up. Then the college investgates it and trys to help. It's supposed to be A " based on true story" Movie.
Does any one know???
Answers: It's an old 70's or 80's movie. It takes place in LA and a woman is haunted by a ghost. The ghost rapes her and beats her up. Then the college investgates it and trys to help. It's supposed to be A " based on true story" Movie.
Does any one know???
The Entity
Carla Moran awakens one night to find herself being beaten and raped by an unseen presence. Terrified of what's happening to her, and shunned by friends and family who think she's lost her mind, she seeks help from parapsychologists. The researchers soon discover that evil spiritual force has been drawn to Carla and is responsible for the violent attacks. The question now, however, is how do they stop it? Based on a supposedly true story.
Credit: Jean-Marc Rocher
wow A oldie but goodie
The Entity (1981)
starring Barbara Hershey, Ron Silver, Alex Rocco, David Labiosa, Natasha Ryan, Jacqueline Brookes,
IMDB synopsis and more information at this site:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082334/
I deleted the synopsis since I see that someone already has placed it.
TRIVIA:
The real-life Carla Moran's teenage son described a particularly vicious attack in which Carla was thrown by the malevolent force and hit her head. He tried to intervene, but he was also thrown, breaking his arm. In the filming of the movie, the actor playing the son broke his arm in that scene, and the curtains tore from top to bottom without explanation.
Carla Moran is a fictional name. Her real name was Doris Byther (not sure if that's how you spell the last name). Her case is described in great detail on "The Entity" DVD by the head parapsychologist Dr. Barry Taff. Many of the events in the movie did actually happen.~~from IMDB forum
From Wikipedia:
In 1978, author Frank De Felitta published a novel titled "The Entity". Three years later, a movie version (by director Sidney J. Furie) was released, and even as it received bad reviews from some movie critics, it later on became a cult classic. Doctors Barry Taff and Kerry Gaynor, who have written about this case as representing real events, served as technical advisors on the film.
The actions of "The Entity" depicted in the film and described in the book mirror those of the stories of unseen, yet apparently physical paranormal forces or beings such as poltergeists and demons. The depicted events are also very similar to the Smurl haunting, with a shadowy man-like apparition being witnessed and the sexual assault upon the victim(s).
However, the controversial nature of the discipline of parapsychology itself, as well as the use that has been made of the so-called " Entity case" for commercial purposes (a book and a movie, as in the case of the Amityville Horror) should make people cautious of accepting the story as genuine.
During the years after the movie, various women have come out on television, claiming to be Carla Moran. The last person to come out in television giving herself that identity, as of 2004, was an elderly woman who, in 2001, told news reporters that she had cancer.
Dr Barry Taff, in a live interview with George Noory on Coast to Coast Am November 17, 2006, verified that Carla Moran had died in July 25, 2006 from multiple myeloma thus ending research in the attacks.
Dr Barry Taff, in a live interview with Todd Bates on Haunted Voices radio on March 3, 2007, said that Carlotta Moran is a pseudonym and that he has no knowledge as to her current situation, or whether or not she is alive. Clearly there is a conflict of information.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carla_Moran
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No one is claiming that every incident occurred because Hollywood rarely delivers a true "true story". Even TV programs are largely dramatized. "The Entity" is based on the novel~~note that the word "novel" is used~~of the same name by Frank De Felitta, who also wrote the screenplay. De Felitta also wrote the novel upon which "Audrey Rose" is based, an Anthony Hopkins film that tends to get overlooked.
The Entity. I haven't heard anything about this movie in a long time