Heather Graham to Star in What Sure Sounds Like a Remake of 1982’s The Entity

Deadline reports Heather Graham is attached to prima successful Entity Within, a caller movie based connected the infamous Doris Bither haunting of 1974 astatine Alliance Media Partners (the aforesaid the workplace that brought you the 2023 Graham fearfulness vehicle, Suitable Flesh).

Intended to beryllium sold disconnected astatine the Cannes Market, this caller instrumentality connected the taxable co-stars Mimi Rogers (Ginger Snaps, The Rapture, The X-Files, Full Body Massage, etc.), Morgan Peter Brown (Absentia), and Kevin Keppy (Smile), and hails from manager Nick Simon (The Girl successful The Photographs) and Saw IV writer Thomas Fenton.

In the words of AMP’s Anthony Bruckner, “We’re thrilled to beryllium moving with Heather Graham again and partnering with Nick Simon to bring Entity Within to Cannes. This is simply a high-concept, emotionally resonant fearfulness movie that we’re excited to stock with planetary buyers.”

For those unfamiliar with the story, Bither claimed she was, connected much than 1 occasion, sexually assaulted by an invisible and vocally misogynistic spirit, attracting the attraction of parapsychologists arsenic good arsenic Audrey Rose writer Frank De Felitta. Felitta recounted the lawsuit successful his 1978 novel, The Entity, which was aboriginal adapted for the surface by Sidney J. Furie successful a 1982 movie of the aforesaid sanction starring Barbara Hershey.

If you haven’t seen it, it’s astonishing (Martin Scorsese adjacent hailed it among the scariest films of each time,  which is rather the coup for Furie, whose different credits see Superman IV: Quest for Peace). Boasting an Oscar-worthy pb show from Hershey and a highly memorable percussion-heavy soundtrack by Charles Bernstein (Quentin Tarantino adjacent lifted it for a country successful Inglorious Basterds), The Entity is apt the astir disturbing movie astir a ghostly haunting ever made—certainly the astir disturbing to beryllium released by a large studio. It’s apt for this crushed 20th Century Fox decided not to merchandise its planned tie-in video crippled for the Atari 2600 in which players were to usage a brace of paddles to propulsion its ghostly rapist skyward to a higher level of existence.

In portion to its grim taxable matter, the movie besides does that large happening The X-Files often did wherever it suggests a logical, non-paranormal solution for its events if you truthful take to judge them (SVU fans tin astir apt conjecture what that is). As is often the lawsuit with these things, the retired makes the thought this mediocre pistillate really is being terrorized by a higher-dimensional monster even more frightening. Go figure.

It’s worthy noting, however, that adjacent though this caller task is based connected the aforesaid root material, Deadline’s nonfiction fails to notation the beingness of the 1982 movie astatine all, so we tin safely presume this task isn’t officially based connected Furie’s novel. As shaper Missy Valdez states successful the article, “This movie is based connected a existent communicative and that information is chilling. It is an grant and a situation to bring Doris’s earthy and terrifying experiences to the surface with attraction and dignity … this is an elevated fearfulness movie that blends affectional extent with real-life terror, and we judge it volition profoundly resonate with some genre fans and caller audiences alike.”

Still, the communicative “so shocking, truthful threatening, it volition frighten you beyond each imagination” (per 1 of The Entity‘s archetypal taglines) is surely ripe for a caller examination. Godspeed, Heather Graham.

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