20 Horror Movie Characters We NEVER See
19. The Entity - The Entity
The criminally underappreciated 1982 horror film The Entity revolves around Carla Moran (Barbara Hershey), a single mother who finds herself repeatedly terrorised and sexually assaulted by an invisible, poltergeist-like entity.
The entity is never directly envisaged on screen, requiring the production to employ cutting edge and impressively well-aged effects work to show the force attacking Carla in her own home.
More to the point, the entity's invisibility makes it infuriatingly difficult for Carla to prove what's happening to her to the authorities, ensuring that she's initially dismissed as mentally ill or attention-seeking.
Though the entity does manifest energy by way of terrifying electrical discharges, we never actually see its own, distinct form.
The fact that we never see its actual body, only the impact it has on the environment as it moves around, frankly makes it that much scarier.
And to make matters worse, the film ends without Carla never decisively triumphing over the force, the final scene only noting that the attacks have become less common and intense.