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Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

NateWatchesCoolMovies The Sentinel is one of the weirdest thing you'll ever see. It's less of a horror and more just a parade of bizarro world situations strung together loosely by a vague haunted apartment story. A young model (Christina Baines) has found a sweet deal on an uptown flat, inhabited by only herself and a blond priest (John Carradine). It's just too bad that when a deal seems to good to be true in these kinds of movies, there's almost always some kind of sinister agenda behind it. It's not too long before spooky stuff comes along, starting with strange physical problems, creepy encounters with her odd lesbian neighbors, flashbacks to her attempted suicide and psychic disturbances that can't be explained. She soon realizes that she has been brought to this building for a very specific and decidedly sinister reason. The way I described all that sounds kind of routine and pedestrian, but trust me when I say that there's nothing generic or run of the mill about this absurdity of a film. Everything has a very disconcerting and surreal feel to it, particularly in a whopper of a climax where a portal to hell is opened and all sorts of babbling loonies pour out, deformed, whacked out and adorned in some of the most creatively gross practical effects that will give your gag reflex a solid workout. The film also speckled with a diverse group of actors, some of them quite young looking when you remember that this was 1977. A chatty Eli Wallach shows up as a detective, with a youthful Christopher Walken in tow as his partner, Ava Gardner of all people has a cameo, and watch for Burgess Meredith, Jerry Orbach, Beverly D'Angelo, William Hickey, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Dreyfuss, Chris Sarandon, and Tom Berenger in what must have been one of his very first gigs, a literal walk on part. Very distinct and memorable film, one that pushed the boundaries considering the time period, and never let's the weirdness mellow down for a single minute.

chaos-rampant There were three masters of horror at the time driven by vision, Hooper, Argento, Carpenter, perhaps two films each.Then the bulk of horror, either studio or gonzo. This is studio, pretty awful in its basic gears. Story and acting are wooden, editing is artless. I can feel a workmanlike hand in the story, a hack in control, always some narrative noise going on and cut to someone talking with hardly a moment of quiet. But for whatever reason it's also shrill, crazy, nonsensical. Unusual. I'll take this over polished horror like The Omen. If we make nonsense after all, it hurts no one and may open a few doors of the imagination. This lack of finesse is funneled here into a kind of demented energy, I would describe it overall as a hellish mix between Fulci and Raimi. A young TV model moves into a New York apartment with a creepy blind old man staring out the window in the floor above, soon hell is unleashed. I will keep with me all the scenes that show a snooping around in dark corridors and up the stairs to the old man, they are perhaps no more than 2-3 of them but hacked raw from the walls of nightmare. So a strange thing, silly and yet disturbing as another reviewer said.

utgard14 A model (Cristina Raines) moves into an apartment building where strange things occur and her odd neighbors are not what they seem. An interesting, but flawed, horror movie that peddles in weirdness just for the sake of weirdness. Pretty Cristina Raines is fine but does nothing to rise above the material. Mustachioed Chris Sarandon plays her boyfriend and it's pretty hard to take him seriously looking like a guy who belongs at Studio 54. The supporting cast helps the movie out greatly. Screen vets Ava Gardner, John Carradine, Burgess Meredith, Eli Wallach, Martin Balsam and Arthur Kennedy are all fantastic. Also early roles for Christopher Walken, Jerry Orbach, Jeff Goldblum, and Beverly D'Angelo. In the "blink and you'll miss them" category, there's Richard Dreyfuss and Tom Berenger. A packed lineup for a movie like this. It's not a great horror film. It's not scary and is seldom suspenseful. But there is something undeniably curious about it. The controversial climax may repulse sensitive types.

AaronCapenBanner Cristina Raines plays fashion model Alison Parker, who rents a Brooklyn Heights apartment from Realtor Miss Logan(Ava Gardner) Soon after moving in, she meets her new neighbors(played by Burgess Meredith, Beverly D' Angelo, Sylvia Miles), who seem friendly enough, but also eccentric, and when she has nightmares and hears footsteps and chains from the upstairs apartment, contacts miss Logan, only to be informed that no one lives upstairs, and she has no such neighbors...Confused and frightened, Alison tries to contact the catholic church, and with the help of her fiancée Michael, uncovers a shocking truth that literally is from hell...Equal parts disturbing and absurd thriller has many shocking scenes I won't describe here, but are really over the line in some ways, though it all is so earnestly(yet poorly) presented by director Michael Winner that you are too stunned to laugh, though it does have an interesting premise and striking final scene.Also a surprisingly and devoutly Catholic film, a rarity in Hollywood, though that alone does not guarantee success...