Chad

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

I ran across this blindly a few years ago and liked it. The ending was, slightly off, I guess you could say. Kind of like the TV show OZ, where it starts out as a semi-normal prison show and then gets wacky towards the end, like with the magic aging drugs. Slightly out of place considering the beginning half of the movie.

Darkgod

Saw this many a year ago, and remembered liking it. This time around, I thought it was still good, but not as great as it was in my mind. The scares are anything but. Yes, they are violent and you cringe, but you know exactly when they are coming. The only random one is in the car. The acting is good, and Ron Silver is great as the skeptical doctor trying to help her.

Another Fun Fact.... Martin Scorsese placed this on his top 11(odd?) scariest movies ever.

Spiderbite

Watched this last night thru Netflix online. It's a decent little movie. Some decent chills though there are several items that really hurt the film overall.

What's with the obnoxious score that kicks in EVERY TIME the "Entity" shows up? That really got old. Some pretty poor dialogue in places and suspect acting from the minor characters. Also, the director seemed to really enjoy odd camera angles especially when filming two people. Some really odd close-ups that make certain scenes irritating to view. Likely done on purpose but it wasn't done in a clever way.

The ending is a little disappointing as I was really interested in seeing what they did to get rid of this thing. I actually think this movie would be a good one to join the recent remake row. If done right, it could be really scary.

*** out of *****.


I forgot to ask, does Barbara Hershey actually appear nude in this film? The first main nude scene appears to be a body double and you never see her head connected to the body. Then during the "breast massages" the breasts look fake to me. Also, her nude body during the final rape scene looks more like a fake body with just her real head sticking up out of the bed. Kinda like a magician "sawing a person in half" effect. Am I wrong?

clckworang

I finally got a chance to watch this. I thought it was all right. I'm not sure what I expected. It's one of those films where I knew the title but not much else. I wasn't expecting a raping ghost. As brianluvdvd pointed out, there weren't much in the way of real scares, but it did get creepy every once in a while.

I understand there are some pretty big differences, but this film reminded me a lot of Paranormal Activity. I thought the basic storyline was very similar. I won't get into any detail here so as to not spoil anyone who hasn't seen Paranormal.

Spiderbite

I completely agree. I just saw Paranormal the other day and the main plot point is quite similar though I thought The Entity was much better in execution, acting, and all around atmosphere. PA was pretty dull to me and lacked any spookiness whatsoever. At least The Entity was creepy in places.