The Unseen is a 1980 American slasher film directed and written by Danny Steinmann (credited as "Peter Foleg’),[1] and starring Stephen Furst, Barbara Bach, Sydney Lassick, and Lelia Goldoni.

Its plot follows three female news reporters who arrive in Solvang, California, to cover the town's annual Danish festival, and end up staying in the Victorian home of a middle-aged couple harboring a dark secret in their basement.

Ernest convinces the three women into accepting an invitation for cheap room and board at his large farmhouse outside of town, where he lives with his wife Virginia.

At the parade, Karen leaves Jennifer and Tony to talk, and makes her way back to the house alone, where she too is then attacked and killed by the unseen, as it attempts to pull her by her scarf through a vent into the basement.

Virginia, who had been in the barn slaughtering a chicken, soon after comes inside to find the bodies of both Vicki and Karen, and is distraught.

[1] The Unseen was released theatrically in the United States by World Northal in June 1981, first showing in Tucson, Arizona.

[3] Donald Guarisco from AllMovie gave the film a positive review, commending its creepy atmosphere, direction, and performances of Furst, Goldoni, and Lassick.

Concluding his review on the film, Guarisco wrote, "The Unseen is a nice surprise for horror fans and well worth rediscovering.