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The Sentinel (1977)
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A 1977 horror film directed by Michael Winner, adapted from the novel of the same name by Jeffrey Konvitz (who also produced the film and wrote its screenplay adaptation with Winner). It stars Christina Raines and Chris Sarandon, with a supporting cast including Martin Balsam, John Carradine, José Ferrer, Ava Gardner, Arthur Kennedy, Burgess Meredith, Sylvia Miles, and Eli Wallach.Supermodel Alison Parker (Raines) moves into a nice Brooklyn Heights apartment, and finds out the tenant on the top floor of her building is a blind priest, Father Hallerin (Carradine). Pretty soon, she starts having strange physical problems, trouble sleeping, and flashbacks to her attempted suicide.Not to be confused with the 1990s TV show, or The Sentinel (2006) starring Michael Douglas and Kiefer Sutherland. | |
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Dead All Along | |
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Dead All Along: The other residents of Alison's apartment building. Used to great effect when Alison talks with Michael at the end. | |
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Those Two Guys | |
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Those Two Guys: Detectives Gatz and Rizzo. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: Strongly on the "bitter" side. Alison, much to her own dismay, becomes the next sentinel and now watches over the gate, as the brownstone is torn down and made into a modern apartment complex, which she still guards. However, by becoming the sentinel, she prevented the demons from invading our world and saved her own soul from Hell, so it may be inferred that she would ascend to Heaven once she dies. | |
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Legions of Hell: "I am one of the Legion of the Dead." | |
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Evil All Along | |
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Evil All Along: Michael, who had his wife murdered so that he could be with Alison. | |
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Drama Panes | |
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Drama Panes: opens with Alison Parker being shown an apartment building by a realtor. The top floor has a large window, where a lone man is staring out at the cityscape. "That's just Father Halloran," the realtor says. "He's part of some reclusive order, kind of a hermit." As it turns out, Father Halloran guards the entrance to Hell, making sure no one alive ventures in, nor any of the damned wander out. By the end of the film, Alison Parker has assumed this duty, staring resolutely out the window, unmoving. Counts as Book Ends in this case. | |
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Suicide by Pills | |
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Suicide by Pills: A flashback shows Alison as a teenager, miserable under an abusive father and an "I can't cope" mother, attempt suicide by ingesting barbiturates. She survives, but as a Catholic, has committed a mortal sin in trying to kill herself. This act qualifies her to be the next Sentinel. | |
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You Can't Fight Fate | |
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You Can't Fight Fate: Alison ends up becoming the next sentinel, despite trying to escape this fate. | |
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Peek-a-Boo Corpse | |
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Peek-a-Boo Corpse: Alison's undead father. | |
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Big Bad | |
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Big Bad: Charles Chazen, heavily implied to be Satan himself. | |
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Eye Scream | |
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Eye Scream: While fighting off the corpse of her father, Alison cuts his eye with a knife. | |
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Christianity Is Catholic | |
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Christianity is Catholic: The Catholic Church is responsible for preventing the door to Hell from being opened. Alison is also a non-practicing Catholic at the beginning. | |
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Same Language Dub | |
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Same Language Dub: A fashion photographer played by Jeff Goldblum (who made his film debut in Winner's Death Wish three years prior) gets this for most of his scenes, save for the one set indoors. It's a minor role and Goldblum was still far from a "name" in 1977, but now that his voice and syntax are among the most recognizable in Hollywood, modern viewers are sometimes taken aback. | |
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Hellgate | |
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Hellgate: The apartment is a gateway to Hell. | |
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Fan Disservice | |
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Fan Disservice: A flashback shows a young Alison walking in on a threesome her elderly father is having with two obese women. | |
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Religion is Magic | |
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Religion is Magic / Religious Horror: The film plays with this, enforcing the usage of Christianity is Catholic along with the fact Catholic priests keep the gate closed. | |
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Broken Bird | |
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Broken Bird: Alison has issues due to her father being abusive, which caused her to lose her faith and attempt suicide. | |
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