The Sentinel is a 1977 horror film starring Chris Sarandon and Cristina Raines. It is based on the same-named novel by Jeffrey Konvitz who also co-wrote the screenplay with director Michael Winner. It is completely unrelated to the 2006 political thriller of the same name. Alison Parker, a beautiful but severely neurotic fashion model moves into a gorgeous Brooklyn brownstone house that has been divided into apartments. The house is inhabited on the top floor by Father Halloran , a reclusive blind priest who spends all of his time sitting at his open window. Alison begins having strange... physical problems, including insomnia, and has some terrifying flashbacks of her attempted suicide. She complains to the real estate agent of the noise caused by her strange neighbors, only to be told that the house is occupied only by the priest and herself. The behavior of her "non-existent" neighbors becomes increasingly surreal and disturbing. It turns out that the building is owned by a secret society of excommunicated Catholic priests, and is a gateway to Hell. The blind priest is the guardian who ensures that the demons do not escape.
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| Release date: | 1977 |
| Directed by: | Michael Winner |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 92 Minutes |
| Editor: | Bernard Gribble, Terry Rawlings |
| Music by: | Gil Mellé |
| Screenplay by: | Jeffrey Konvitz, Michael Winner |
| Adapted from: | The Sentinel |