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More discussion about the possible remake

posted 8 years ago by jeffyoung1
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I would like to keep the discussion going about a possible THE ENTITY remake. Since 2014 the Internet news remained the same. A Japanese director (don't know if he's Japanese American or a Japanese national) has been pegged to do the remake.
Since there's been no further updates on the Internet, I might presume that progress has stalled, been postponed, or quietly cancelled.

I've asked earlier questions about how the remake should go. I had some interesting replies, yay and nay, pro and con, on whether the book should be closely followed as the movie did.

Barbara Hershey reputedly said in an interview that she wished there was more of the middle third of the movie. I agree. I wish the remake followed the first third and second third and came up with a different last third. Most people including me were bored and put off with the bland, uninteresting scientific experiment to capture the entity. If the scientists couldn't prove it was an incorporeal extra-terrestrial, then it was an incorporeal demon who was hassling the woman for no apparent reason. Can't say it was because Carla Moran (in the movie) was an attractive mid-30s woman, otherwise you might hear of much more similar attacks on defenseless beautiful women.

The remake in my opinion would be more interesting if the researchers decided that yes, there is some kind of invisible entity attacking Carla. Perhaps there could be a quick scene where the scientists try to contact or capture the entity but fail. Then the investigation gets turned over to religious authorities who attempt an exorcism because they now know it is demonic. It's not a possession. Carla was never thought to be possessed. Rather, it's what religious authorities call, 'demonic oppression'. That's when a demonic entity starts harassing a human being, trying to frighten and break them down for whatever malevolent reason the demon has in its diabolical mind.

My last discussion involves the nudity. THE ENTITY original had a fair amount of it, albeit using an accurate polymer-based body torso mannequin duplicate of Barbara Hershey's body. This is all part of the book and the movie. I'm not sure how in this day and age of feminist correctness you could avoid that without essentially killing the movie. Even with CGI there's still be the nudity. The prop department could resort to a similar mannequin even as it would look better and more realistic given the advances in studio prop technology.

What do you guys think? I might be wasting time because I've read no new news on the remake since it was announced.

[–] kurt-2000 8 years ago

A remake in concept suggests that a lead actor and writers could do a better job than Barbara. At best, they could equal her performance, but not surpass it. There would be no point in retelling the story. It would be like Amityville Horror 2005. Just not needed.

Also, a revised film would have to include a considerable amount of nudity to equal the repeated sexual assaults, and I'm not convinced that theaters today would want that much nudity in an R rated film. The 1982 standards were a little more liberal on the nudity front.

I want to share a perspective with you from mediums and demonology experts. Demons were never human in form or originated from a human before becoming demons. They are alleged to be animal. The entity in any actual case would more than like have originated from a male, human sex offender. Demons desire to seize souls and human sex offenders crave the flesh. Just sharing a perspective from the paranormal community on that point.

This film is way ahead of it's time, because paranormal investigators these days are dealing with entities [alleged] that were sex offenders in life, and grope women in their afterlife form. Many paranormal cases studied involve women that were groped or assaulted by the entities that haunt their homes, or places of business.

I was just watching a rerun of Ghost Adventures, and Zak B. asked two women in Tombstone Arizona to get into costumes and walk through an old west bar called 'The Birdcage'. He was using them as bait, since one woman who works there reported being groped on numerous occasions.