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A 1977 horror film directed by Creator/MichaelWinner, 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 Creator/ChrisSarandon, with a supporting cast that includes Martin Balsam, Creator/JohnCarradine, [[Creator/JoseFerrer José Ferrer]], Creator/AvaGardner, Creator/BurgessMeredith, and Creator/EliWallach.

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A 1977 horror film directed by Creator/MichaelWinner, 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 Creator/ChrisSarandon, with a supporting cast that includes Martin Balsam, Creator/JohnCarradine, [[Creator/JoseFerrer José Ferrer]], Creator/JoseFerrer, Creator/AvaGardner, Creator/BurgessMeredith, Sylvia Miles, and Creator/EliWallach.
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* EyeScream: While fighting off the corpse of [[spoiler: her dead father]], Alison cuts his eye with a knife.

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* EyeScream: While fighting off the corpse of [[spoiler: her dead father]], Alison cuts his eye with a knife.
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A 1977 horror film directed by Creator/MichaelWinner, 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 Creator/ChrisSarandon, with a supporting cast that includes Martin Balsam, Creator/JohnCarradine, Jose Ferrer, Creator/AvaGardner, Creator/BurgessMeredith, and Creator/EliWallach.

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A 1977 horror film directed by Creator/MichaelWinner, 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 Creator/ChrisSarandon, with a supporting cast that includes Martin Balsam, Creator/JohnCarradine, Jose Ferrer, [[Creator/JoseFerrer José Ferrer]], Creator/AvaGardner, Creator/BurgessMeredith, and Creator/EliWallach.
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* ValuesDissonance: A lesbian couple is damned to hell for their sex life, and treated as exactly as evil as all Hell's other inhabitants. Even most modern conservative stances on homosexuality would likely draw the line at making the characters so wholly evil.
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* ValuesDissonance: A lesbian couple is damned to hell for their sex life, and treated as exactly as evil as all Hell's other inhabitants. Even most modern conservative stances on homosexuality would likely draw the line at making the characters so wholly evil.
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* SameLanguageDub: A fashion photographer played by Creator/JeffGoldblum gets this. He's a tertiary character and Goldblum was 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 by this.

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* SameLanguageDub: A fashion photographer played by Creator/JeffGoldblum (who made his film debut in Winner's ''Film/DeathWish'' three years prior) gets this. He's this for most of his scenes, save for the one set indoors. It's a tertiary character 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 by this.aback.
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* SameLanguageDub: A fashion photographer played by Creator/JeffGoldblum gets this. He's a tertiary character and Goldblum was 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 by this.
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A 1977 horror film directed by Creator/MichaelWinner, 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 that includes Martin Balsam, Creator/JohnCarradine, Jose Ferrer, Creator/AvaGardner, Creator/BurgessMeredith, and Creator/EliWallach.

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A 1977 horror film directed by Creator/MichaelWinner, 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, Creator/ChrisSarandon, with a supporting cast that includes Martin Balsam, Creator/JohnCarradine, Jose Ferrer, Creator/AvaGardner, Creator/BurgessMeredith, and Creator/EliWallach.
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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 that includes Martin Balsam, Creator/JohnCarradine, Jose Ferrer, Creator/AvaGardner, Creator/BurgessMeredith, and Creator/EliWallach.

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A 1977 horror film directed by Michael Winner, Creator/MichaelWinner, 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 that includes Martin Balsam, Creator/JohnCarradine, Jose Ferrer, Creator/AvaGardner, Creator/BurgessMeredith, and Creator/EliWallach.
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* ReligionIsMagic / ReligiousHorror The film plays with this, enforcing the usage of ChristianityIsCatholic along with the fact Catholic priests keep the gate closed.

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* ReligionIsMagic / ReligiousHorror ReligiousHorror: The film plays with this, enforcing the usage of ChristianityIsCatholic along with the fact Catholic priests keep the gate closed.

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Supermodel Alison Parker (Cristina Raines) moves into a nice Brooklyn Heights apartment, and finds out the tenant on the top floor of her building is a blind priest. Pretty soon, she starts having strange physical problems, trouble sleeping, and flashbacks to her attempted suicide.

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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 that includes Martin Balsam, Creator/JohnCarradine, Jose Ferrer, Creator/AvaGardner, Creator/BurgessMeredith, and Creator/EliWallach.

Supermodel Alison Parker (Cristina Raines) (Raines) moves into a nice Brooklyn Heights apartment, and finds out the tenant on the top floor of her building is a blind priest.priest, Father Hallerin (Carradine). Pretty soon, she starts having strange physical problems, trouble sleeping, and flashbacks to her attempted suicide.

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* [[spoiler: DownerEnding: 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, with she ''still'' guards]].



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%%* HotAsHell* HotAsHell: The apartment is a ''gateway'' to Hell



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* ReligionIsMagic / ReligiousHorror The film plays with this, enforcing the usage of ChristianityIsCatholic along with the fact Catholic priests keep the gate closed.
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* BigBad: [[spoiler: Chares Chazen, heavily implied to be {{Satan}} himself.]]

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* BigBad: [[spoiler: Chares Charles Chazen, heavily implied to be {{Satan}} himself.]]
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* BigBad: [[spoiler: Chares Chazen, heavily implied to be {{Satan}} himself.]]


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* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler: Michael, who had his wife murdered so that he could be with Alison.]]
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Not to be confused with the [[Series/TheSentinel 1990s TV show]], or the 2006 movie starring MichaelDouglas and Creator/KieferSutherland.

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Not to be confused with the [[Series/TheSentinel 1990s TV show]], or the 2006 movie starring MichaelDouglas Creator/MichaelDouglas and Creator/KieferSutherland.
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* [[spoiler: DeadAllAlong: The other residents of Alison's apartment building.]] Used to great effect when Alison talks with Michael at the end.

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* [[spoiler: DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler: The other residents of Alison's apartment building.]] building. Used to great effect when Alison talks with Michael at the end.]]

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* AllStarCast



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Not to be confused with the [[Series/TheSentinel 1990s TV show]], or the 2006 movie starring MichaelDouglas and KieferSutherland.

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Not to be confused with the [[Series/TheSentinel 1990s TV show]], or the 2006 movie starring MichaelDouglas and KieferSutherland.
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* AllStarCast
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* ThoseTwoGuys: Detectives Gatz and Rizzo.
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Supermodel Alison Parker (Cristina Raines) moves into a nice Brooklyn Heights apartment, and finds out the tenant on the top floor of her building is a blind priest. Pretty soon, she starts having strange physical problems, trouble sleeping, and flashbacks to her attempted suicide. She then finds out the old priest is guarding the gate to hell, and she's his replacement.

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Supermodel Alison Parker (Cristina Raines) moves into a nice Brooklyn Heights apartment, and finds out the tenant on the top floor of her building is a blind priest. Pretty soon, she starts having strange physical problems, trouble sleeping, and flashbacks to her attempted suicide. She then finds out the old priest is guarding the gate to hell, and she's his replacement.
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Not to be confused with the 1990s TV show, or the 2006 movie starring MichaelDouglas and KieferSutherland.

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Not to be confused with the [[Series/TheSentinel 1990s TV show, show]], or the 2006 movie starring MichaelDouglas and KieferSutherland.KieferSutherland.

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Supermodel Alison Parker(CristinaRaines) moves into a nice Brooklyn Heights apartment, and finds out the tenant on the top floor of her building is a blind priest. Pretty soon, she starts having strange physical problems, trouble sleeping, and flashbacks to her attempted suicide. She then finds out the old priest is guarding the gate to hell, and she's his replacement. Not to be confused with the 1990s TV show, or the 2006 movie starring MichaelDouglas and KieferSutherland.

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Supermodel Alison Parker(CristinaRaines) Parker (Cristina Raines) moves into a nice Brooklyn Heights apartment, and finds out the tenant on the top floor of her building is a blind priest. Pretty soon, she starts having strange physical problems, trouble sleeping, and flashbacks to her attempted suicide. She then finds out the old priest is guarding the gate to hell, and she's his replacement.

Not to be confused with the 1990s TV show, or the 2006 movie starring MichaelDouglas and KieferSutherland.



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* HeyItsThatGuy: *deep inhale* ChrisSarandon, MartinBalsam, JohnCarradine, JoseFerrer, AvaGardner, BurgessMeredith, SylviaMiles, EliWallach, ChristopherWalken, JerryOrbach, BeverlyDAngelo, NanaVisitor, TomBerenger, JeffGoldblum, RichardDreyfuss! Whoo!
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* LegionsofHell: "I am one of Legion."

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* LegionsofHell: LegionsOfHell: "I am one of Legion.the Legion of the Dead."
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* HighOctaneNightmareFuel



* UnfortunateImplications: [[spoiler: The film caused considerable controversy due to the use of actual disfigured people as demons during the finale.]]



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* LegionsofHell: "I am one of Legion."
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* [[spoiler: DeadAllAlong: The other residents of Alison's apartment building.]]

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* [[spoiler: DeadAllAlong: The other residents of Alison's apartment building.]]]] Used to great effect when Alison talks with Michael at the end.
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* FanService: A flashback shows a young Alison walking in on a threesome her elderly father is having with two obese women.

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* FanService: FanDisservice: A flashback shows a young Alison walking in on a threesome her elderly father is having with two obese women.
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* FanDisservice: A flashback shows a young Alison walking in on a threesome her elderly father is having with two obese women.

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* FanDisservice: FanService: A flashback shows a young Alison walking in on a threesome her elderly father is having with two obese women.
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* OneHundredScariestMovieMoments: Number 46

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