The 1982, a single American mother arrives home from a regular day at work.

She cooks herself dinner, tucks her children in bed, and retreats to her bedroom.

All of a sudden she is attacked by an invisible force, an entity.

The attack is violent, predatory, vicious, sexual. After the attack, the woman is left bruised, shaken and terrified.

Terrified it might happen again, and terrified that no one out there will believe her.

Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of the ghost story

and discuss one of the most disturbing, visceral and violent of all haunted house movies,

Sydney Furies, the entity. Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike and as ever I am your host. If you're joining us for

the first time then welcome in this podcast we explore and dissect the evolution of

the horror genre by looking at particular sub-genres across a number of weeks.

We are currently in the midst of exploring the evolution of the ghost story, and this is part

8 in which, as the intro suggested, we are going to discuss the entity starring Barbara Hershey. This will be a spoilerific review.

We will be talking about every element of the movie including the ending. So if you haven't seen

the entity, go away and watch it and come back.

There's so much interesting meaty themes to explore within this movie.

And not only that, when I'm joined by my first guest, we are going to be talking a little bit

more broadly about the whole ghost sub-genre and we're going to be talking a little bit more broadly about the whole

ghost sub-genre and we're going to be mentioning other movies such as the

others the Shining under the Shadow the Innocence so there will be minor

spoilers for some of these movies but we won't be going into the

nitty gritty for any of them just kind of briefly talk about some of the story points and

characters so just be warned there are a few minor spoilers for other ghost movies this week.

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