A better ending to the story...

I know all about the "true story" on which it was "inspired," but I'm going to go with the movie's fictional version of events...

So there's an invisible guy raping some chick or whatever, right? Why not just shoot him? Just throw some flour on him and then shoot him. So easy.

Or, if they simply MUST freeze him or whatever, have "Carla" freeze him and then hit him with a hammer so that he shatters into a million pieces. Then, instead of saying, "She's still haunted, but no longer raped," they could say that she's no longer haunted at all period. End of story.

Or, even better, since we're just making up stuff, have her pour some paint on him, tie him up, and then rape him and torture him like he did to her. THEN kill him. Go for the rape / revenge genre.

I`m sorry for my lack of manners, but I`m not used to escorting men.

Yeah, much like the scientific equipment in the Legend of Hell House, the ending of the Entity just does not work and damages what is an otherwise great horror film. Though I'm not very into remakes and would loathe to see these become full of today's CGI and jump scares, they could both benefit from an update (if done correctly).

As far as the Entity goes, I would discard that whole bit at the end. It doesn't make sense that the university budget would approve such costs, for one. And most paranormal researchers would agree that trying to catch a ghost or demon is unlikely, especially through such means. That belongs more with a Ghostbusters movie than a psychological horror.

I would have the investigators show up, as they did, trying to catch this thing on film and trying to reason with it. When their "proof" is unreliable/not strong enough and the entity either won't respond to them or her attacks become worse due to the investigators' presence, they should remove her from the home to see if it's isolated there (ghost) or follows her (either a demon or poltergeist activity, which is believed to be caused by the person experiencing the phenomenon). Without a solution for her, they should admit they cannot help and suggest other outlets like religion or therapy.

With her son being injured during one of her "episodes", there is sufficient reason for her psychologist to have the children removed and her placed under observation. When nothing happens under doctor's 72 hour hold, she should be released. Then have it where she goes home, hears the creepy greeting, and she resolves to no longer be afraid, ending the film with the note that the attacks continued for a while, though with less frequency. This leaves the movie with an open ending that rings more true, remains scary, and allows the viewer to ponder if it's psychological or supernatural.

I'd prefer the ending without religion or an exorcism because possession movies have become too commonplace and predictable and because it was reported to continue for a while afterwards.

While in therapy she realizes that the being raping her is her first boyfriend, her child's father. When he comes to her that night instead of fighting him she embraces him, tells him how much she misses him and that she is sorry his life ended so quickly and wishes she could be with him again. He then goes and takes over the body of the psychologist played by Ron Silver, and then trades in his car for a motorcycle and moves in with Carla to raise their son and her other two children. That's how I would have ended it!