The Sentinel (1977)

[Trevor]

 



A neurotic model takes up residence in an apartment building which is actually the doorway to hell:  

What a horrible movie: I switched it off after sticking it out for almost twenty minutes. I knew that Michael Winner made some stinkers during his career but this is the absolute nadir, up there with his dire Scream For Help and Dirty Weekend. I put it off where the young girl discovers the old man in bed with the badonkadonk ladies and then slashes her wrists.....  

What has been seen, cannot be unseen....  

[Archivist]

I saw this on TV many years ago, and the premise and denouement were quite depressing.  Entirely unlike the TV series The Sentinel, starring Richard Burgi as an ex-military sniper turned cop, who develops superhuman senses in the jungle and uses them to fight crime.  Very cool series.  Very uncool movie.

[The Burgomaster]

I was very disappointed when I saw this movie.  The novel is one of the scariest I have ever read.  The movie managed to screw up or ignore all the scary parts.

[FatFreddysCat]

I generally like 70s "Satan" movies but this one didn't do much for me either. Beverly D'Angelo's famous masturbation scene is about the only thing that made it memorable, haha.
Aside from that, the only things that kept me watching to the end were the cool '70s New York locations and catching glimpses of future stars in bit parts like Jerry "Law & Order" Orbach and Chris "Fright Night" Sarandon.

[JaseSF]

I actually rather liked this one. It's very creepy at times...

[lester1/2jr]

I remember this it was some studios answer to The Exorcist and a floppy one at that. It took years of grindhouse and vhs boom for majors to get a handle on horror

[RCMerchant]

I liked John Carradine with Tor Johnson eyes.

[claws]

Caught this on the big screen, part of a retro-horror weekend thingy, playing at some art house-ish movie theater back in the 90s. The theater was packed and the audience was really into it. The infamous knife/stabbing scene made almost everyone scream. Good times. I believe said scene was also included in Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments.
And how about that ending? Impossible to pull that off nowadays 

[Ted C]

Found the trailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMIssiMkt04
There are a lot of big (or would become big) names in that flick.

[BoyScoutKevin]

Though, it is a film I have yet to see, it is a film I am aware of, and a film I hope to see some day, if only for the cast, which includes . . .

Chris Sarandon -- Cristina Raines -- Martin Balsam -- John Carradine -- Jose Ferrer -- Ava Gardner -- Arthur Kennedy -- Burgess Meredith -- Sylvia Miles -- Deborah Raffin -- Eli Wallach -- Christopher Walken -- Jerry Orbach -- Beverly D'Angelo -- Tom Berenger -- William Hickey -- Jeff Goldblum -- and Richard Dreyfuss in an uncredited cameo as the Man on the Sidewalk.

That's a film cast you don't see anymore.