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Now this one I was planning to make a removal for since it's already under the Pure Evil category. However, after taking a closer look at the Wikipedia and IMDB pages and watching a few YouTube clips of the film, I'm thinking of reconsidering...
The Work[]
The Entity is a 1978 supernatural horror novel and 1982 film adaptation loosely based on the Doris Bither case, where a woman claims to be sexually assaulted by an invisible creature, a creature that she only refers to as an entity.
The Candidate[]
The novel and film follow Carla Moran, a single mother of three children living hard in Los Angeles after the death of her first husband in a motorcycle accident, and the second one leaving and never returning. One night, she finds herself being raped while asleep, but dismisses it as a nightmare. A following episode of poltergeist activity around the house prompts her to flee with her children to the home of her friend Cindy.
The next morning comes and Carla's house seems to calm down. That's until Carla begins to drive to work when suddenly her car goes out of control and swerves into traffic and refuses to stop when Carla stomps on the brakes, only stopping when it's right in front of the ocean. Believing that Carla is just overstressing herself, Cindy urges her to see a psychiatrist, prompting Carla to visit Dr. Phil Sneiderman. He doesn't buy a "nightmare" of rape and a car steering wheel going out of control but decides to let Cindy undergo therapy. The next attack happens that night while Carla is taking a bath, leaving her covered in bruises and bite marks. Dr. Sneiderman believes Carla bit herself (even though some of the marks are at spots impossible for one to bite at with their mouth) and tells her that it may just be delusions of her past trauma where she was sexually and physically abused as a child, impregnated as a teenager, and witnessed the death of her first husband. He recommends Carla visit a psychiatric hospital, but she refuses.
That night, Carla is attacked again, this time in front of her children. While her young daughters Julie and Kim cry out in fear, her teenage son Billy tries to help only to be struck by an electrical discharge that violently electrocutes him and breaks his wrist. Cindy happened to witness the attack from outside and takes Cindy to find a possible cause for the supernatural attacks. At a bookstore, they meet two parapsychologists that Carla convinces to visit her home. While skeptical, they agree when they witness several paranormal events inside, such as the windows rocking and the doors opening and closing on their own. Carla's boyfriend Jerry arrives until Carla's next attack happens that he witnesses. Carla is sent to recover from her injuries in a hospital, where Jerry tells her that they should end their relationship before the entity comes after him and his family.
Once released from the hospital, Carla agrees for the parapsychologists to partake in a plan to get rid of the entity for good, using a mockup of Carla's house and a liquid helium contraption to freeze the invisible creature. Once night falls, the entity arrives, but instead of immediately attacking Carla as usual, it takes control of the liquid helium jets and uses a nozzle to spray liquid helium at Carla, aware of her plan of using it against it. But Carla stands up against it, stating that it will never have her even if it kills her. Dr. Sneiderman, understanding that Carla was telling the truth the entire time, rushes in and saves her just as the jets blow up and freeze the entity in a large mass of ice. But it manages to break out and escapes.
The next day, Carla decides to return home with her children in the car, having been staying over at Cindy's. Upon entering the house, the front door slams behind her, and in a demonic voice, the entity "welcomes" her home. Carla reacts by exiting the house and leaving in her car. The film ends with a caption saying that Carla and her children have moved to Texas to start a new life. She is still attacked by the entity, but the attacks are less frequent and it is no longer able to rape her, showing that its control over her has drastically weakened.
The Factors[]
It's completely invisible except for some electric sparks, but it shows morality over its actions considering it continuously rapes an innocent woman just because it can, and goes strait-up homicidal against her and her family just because she stood up against it repeatedly molesting her.
The only problem that I can find and the real reason I was planning to make a removal is due to a lack of motive behind the entity's actions. The characters in the film can only make theories on why it deliberately chooses to only abuse Carla physically and psychologically, even Dr. Sneiderman suggests it's a manifestation of Carla's traumatic past. However, given that it chooses to stalk and destroy the innocence of a single woman and even continues visiting her for the rest of her life even though it can't molest her anymore, it may just be doing it for thrills.
The Standards[]
Sets it, since it's the only villain in the film and the sole perpetrator of Carla's descent into madness. There's a total of six onscreen rape scenes in the film and while they are severe, none of them are gruesomely explicit in detail (given how the assaulter is invisible).
The Verdict[]
I'm still feeling a bit shifty over this, but after doing more research, my verdict is slightly above "yes"; like they always say, rape is the worst kind of evil. Even if you're an invisible poltergeist. Thoughts?
Yes: 8
No: 0
Undecided: 0
Score: +8
Verdict: Pure Evil