10 Scariest Scenes In "True Story" Films

It's not often a film contains a scene considered one of the scariest of all time from one of cinema's greatest filmmakers. It's even rarer that the film in question was not some masterpiece, but a minor controversial release from 1983. Sydney J. Furie's The Entity came under immediate fire for its depictions of graphic sexual assault. That such brutality could be shown onscreen got feminist groups in an uproar.

Even star Barbara Hershey had to step out to defend it, saying, "We worked really hard not to make it exploitative. Rape is one of the ugliest if not the ugliest thing that can happen to someone...I have no answer for those people who are offended."

That there was no living male perpetrator was immaterial.

The Entity chronicles Carla Moran's brutal experiences with a supernatural being who torments and brutally rapes her repeatedly. Her cries for help go unanswered, given that there's no suspect to point toward. Instead, Moran's hideous journey is made all the more terrifying when she's forced to battle not only her ghostly rapist, but also a gaggle of men who refuse to believe her, including a psychiatrist (Ron Silver) whose interest may be less clinical than it should be.

The filmmaker who praised it was Martin Scorsese, and there's really no getting around just how uncomfortable every encounter Hershey has with her invisible attacker really become as they grow more and more violent.