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  2. Jul 10, 2024 · In this case, reality is more frightening than fiction because the true story behind The Entity is a much more harrowing ordeal than could ever be contained on celluloid. The story of Doris Bither, the woman whose life inspired the classic horror film, is one of addiction, abuse, and spectral rape. It’s not for the weak of heart.

  3. The Doris Bither case, also known as the Entity haunting, was a 1974 investigation into alleged paranormal phenomena in Culver City, California, experienced by a woman named Doris Bither. The case inspired Frank De Felitta's 1978 book The Entity which was made into a 1982 film of the same name starring Barbara Hershey.

  4. Jul 22, 2015 · The Story: It was a chance encounter at a California bookstore in 1974, that would eventually reveal one of the most terrifying hauntings in American history. The case, which was used as the basis for the film “The Entity,” involved a woman named Doris Bither and her four children.

  5. Oct 23, 2024 · The Unspeakable Truth of. The Entity. By Gavin Smith. Features —. Oct 23, 2024. W hen The Entity opened in London back in 1982, it attracted protests for its lurid, inherently repellent premise: a thirty-two-year-old single mother of three in Los Angeles is repeatedly raped and brutalized by an overpowering, malevolent invisible being.

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    The Entity is a 1982 American supernatural horror film directed by Sidney J. Furie, and starring Barbara Hershey, Ron Silver, David Labiosa, Maggie Blye, Jacqueline Brookes, and Alex Rocco. The film follows a single mother in Los Angeles who is raped and tormented by an invisible poltergeist-like entity in her home.

  7. The “true story” behind the case involved a California woman, Doris Bither, who in the mid-1970s claimed, among other ghostly goings-on, to have been sexually assaulted by three ghosts. Bither’s case inspired a 1978 novel by Frank De Felitta titled The Entity and a film released in 1982 starring Barbara Hershey.

  8. Feb 10, 2020 · Martin Scorsese called it one of the scariest horror films of all time, but ‘The Entity’ was just more than a movie. The events rolling out on the screen, bringing chills down your spin, were based on the true story of Doris Bither.