The Entity

I'm going to drop mine because somebody just actually spoiled it in the chat, believe it or not, because me and my brother Kevin love this movie.

It's called The Entity.

And if you've never seen it, be sure you might want to pull it up.

Most people have not heard of this.

This was a rental that I think we rented it.

Uh, the entity, I remember hearing the, the, the commercial for this on the radio.

Uh, it's a spooky film, not really, not very popular, but, uh, if you've never seen it, shall you familiar with this at all? It's got a pretty cult following.

I am a screen factory.

Okay, let me just have a look at the screen now.

Aha, Paige Smith says, Peter, I followed you from the film review.

Wow, from the film review in the Fortean Times.

Your good self and Reverend Fanthorpe.

Thank you.

Yeah, Fortean Times is a magazine that I have been writing for now for about 12 years, maybe more.

And it explores the paranormal, ghosts, UFOs, cryptids, everything.

And I'm lucky enough to be able to write their horror film column, but I've written many, well, several articles for them, quite a few cover articles, which is exciting.

I'm sure it'll be out on some streams.

And then that night, if you're into The Conjuring and Paranormal, I watched What Happened to Doris, which is based off of, it was previously done, the movie The Entity.

Okay.

Oh, really? No kidding.

I need you to investigate.

I'm at what's in because I can, you know, and how they approach somebody coming to them with these allegations.

That separates, and that's why the entity story and case is different from some other supernatural paranormal cases.

Different than Amityville, different than other things.

And years before Jackie ever called him, he looked into the case of a woman named Doris Bither, who claimed she was being attacked in her own home by something nobody could see.

A case that would go on to become the basis for the 1982 horror film The Entity.

And so, if there was one person in all of LA who maybe had seen something like this before, it was him.

Taff pulled together a small team and drove out to the apartment on August 8th, 1989.

It's the true story.

Frank De La Fida wrote a book in the late 70s called The Entity, which they made a movie called The Entity.

Yes, with Barbara Hershey.

So it's the true story of that.

Oh, wow.

So yeah, it's a bad, bad ghost.

I didn't know that it was connected to the entity.

I really thought you were trying to jumpstart a genre.

I'm your host, Mike White.

My guest this episode is director Nick Simon, who was mentored by Wes Craven and now brings us What Happened to Doris?, a 1974-set haunting based on the real case that helped inspire The Entity, told with the cooperation of the victim's own son.

What Happened to Doris? plays Fantastic Fest ahead of a planned theatrical release early next year.

I had a great time talking with Nick, and I hope you have a great time listening.

Yeah.

It's The Entity.

Oh, sure.

Fuck yeah.

Mm-hmm.

She was in The Entity, Kingdom of Spiders, The Day Time Ended, and Good Against Evil.

Nice.

Casey Martell as Eddie, the son, in Bloody Birthday and The Munsters' Revenge.