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Paranormal Entity (2009)

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Paranormal Entity is a horror film produced by The Asylum in 2009. It is one of many films dubbed as a “mockbuster“, a movie designed to capitalize on the success of a higher budget film. Paranormal Entity is a mockbuster of the successful low-budget horror film Paranormal Activity.

Samantha Finley (Erin Marie Hogan), Thomas Finley, her older brother, and Cindy Finley, their mother, are a family who have lost their father David. Cindy tries to contact her husband by writing to him and is overjoyed upon receiving a written response. Soon the family claims that a ghostly entity is haunting them. At first they think it is their father/husband David, but after a series of horrible attacks upon Samantha they begin to suspect otherwise.

One night the camera records Ellen sitting up in her bed and leaving her bedroom. She is then seen walking into the living room and kneeling at the coffee table where she writes something on a piece of paper. Ellen stands up, crumples the paper and walks back down the hallway. Thomas finds the paper in Samantha’s bedroom and opens it to see that the writing spells out the word MARON. Thomas suggests that Ellen and Samantha stay at a hotel while he remains at the house to deal with the problem.

That night, Thomas rummages through a toolbox and finds three bells and some thin wire. On the archways outside his bedroom, the living room and the dining room he sets up traps. The idea is that should the entity enter a room the bell on the wire will jingle. When this does eventually occur, Thomas investigates. The wire and bell outside his door are ripped from the wall and thrown at him. Thomas then shuts himself in the bedroom, where the entity bangs on his door.

Just as the banging stops, Thomas receives a phone call from Ellen, who is in hysterics after the entity apparently followed them and again attacked Samantha. Upon arriving back at the house, Samantha is hunched over and in pain. Ellen says that it looked like something was holding Samantha’s arms before dragging her off the bed. Thomas awakens at night, finds his sister missing and sees the front door standing open. He searches outside but cannot find her. He later finds the attic ladder hanging down and ascends it to find her silently standing there in a state of undress and in a trance. Upon awakening, Samantha is unable to recall anything from that night. The following night, Thomas calls the previous owner of the house, asking if anyone under the name of Maron ever lived or died in their home, but the previous owner does not recognize the name. Soon afterwards, Thomas hears Samantha screaming. He rushes to the bathroom and finds her lying topless in the bathtub, wide-eyed and severely traumatized.

Ellen wakes after hearing thuds from outside. In the living room camera she is seen to stand in the archway for a few minutes before disappearing back into her bedroom. Thomas later wakes up, after hearing a door slam shut, and finds that Ellen has slit her wrists, weapon still in hand. She is then taken to the hospital.

Thomas and Sam are left at home when a self-professed paranormal expert arrives and walks through the residence. He explains that there is a powerful dark entity in the home and that Samantha is the focus of its attention. The psychic explains that the entity gained entry into the home via the supernatural gateway that was unwittingly opened up by the mother during her unsuccessful attempts to contact the spirit of her dead husband. Thomas gives the researcher the note his mother wrote in her sleep bearing the name “MARON”. It turns out that “maron” is Old Germanic for “nightmare” or, more specifically, incubus, which is the entity that has targeted Samantha.

The psychic agrees to help them evict the entity when the video fades to black. After a pause, the camera’s POV shows the doctor’s bleeding head and vacantly-staring face resting sideways on the floor and “looking” toward the lens. Thomas is heard panicking. He grabs the camera after hearing Samantha screaming in agony and runs to her bedroom. We see that the house is in total disarray. Thomas finds his sister naked and levitating above the floor in her bedroom stark, covered in blood while being attacked by some invisible force. He drops the camera and tries to help her. A gurgling noise is heard off-screen, and an unseen figure picks up the camera and focuses it on poor Samantha’s lifeless face. Source: wikipedia