The Sentinel

Name: The Sentinel
Genre: Horror
Released: February 11, 1977
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 19
Cast: Arthur Kennedy, Ava Gardner, Burgess Meredith, Chris Sarandon, Cristina Raines

1977

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Universal Pictures | Release Date: February 11, 1977 | R

Starring: Arthur Kennedy, Ava Gardner, Burgess Meredith, Chris Sarandon, Cristina Raines, Deborah Raffin, John Carradine, José Ferrer, Martin Balsam, Sylvia Miles

Summary: A young woman moves into an apartment in a building which houses a sinister evil.

Director: Michael Winner

Genre(s): Horror

Rating: R

Runtime: 92 min

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Dolores Barclay

Doesn't deliver the chills it should, but leaves an uneasy feeling. [26 Oct 1990]

Richard Eder

Nagging thoughts are not supposed to arise in horror pictures—last summer Mr. Winner predicted that this picture would be extremely horrifying — but The Sentinel has long stretches where there is nothing to do but notice things. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Whereas Tod Browning showed the warm humanity of such people in FREAKS (1932), Winner cruelly exploits their handicaps for the purpose of repulsing his audience. This alone makes the film detestable. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

The Sentinel is a grubby, grotesque excursion into religioso psychodrama, notable for uniformly poor performances by a large cast of familiar names and direction that is hysterical and heavy-handed. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

A film which plagiarises so brazenly - and so badly - that it seems like little more than a pile of out-takes from recent supernatural successes. Read full review

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HellHoleHorror

Feb 16, 2022

This took the brooding suspense of Rosemary’s Baby (1968) and the mythology of The Exorcist (1973) and mashed together a slow psychological horror. My biggest gripe was that it wasn't scary enough. There was one really scary scene around the middle that was so effective in building tensionThis took the brooding suspense of Rosemary’s Baby (1968) and the mythology of The Exorcist (1973) and mashed together a slow psychological horror. My biggest gripe was that it wasn't scary enough. There was one really scary scene around the middle that was so effective in building tension and then reaching a horrific climax with genuine fear long the way. Other than that and the ending, that was a bit creepy, this was a little disappointing. The pace is slow as most films were back in the seventies. This is well acted and suitably directed. It suffers from blandness when compared to much better films in the same genre from the same era. I didn't like the complete lack of supernatural special effects. I had to think. It would have been a lot scarier if I was a Christian.… Expand

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