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Wednesday, September 25, 2019

The Sentinel (1977)

A beautiful but unstable model (Cristina RainesNASHVILLE) rents an apartment in a Brooklyn Heights brownstone. It isn't long before she discovers there is something very wrong with the building ..... like dead people giving a birthday party for a cat! Based on the novel by Jeffrey Konvitz and directed by Michael Winner. A perfectly silly horror film with more unintentional giggles than chills. Ifsaysomeone like Ken Russell had directed itit might have been outrageous fun but Michael Winner is a director who never rose above competence at his best. During the movie's big finaleit appears to exploit real malformed people (or "freaks" if you prefer) which gives off a bad taste. But thenthen the whole movie leaves you with a bad taste. The film is crammed with many celebrated actors (20 Oscar nominations among them) and it may rival only THE SWARM as the worst film with so many famous faces. They include Ava GardnerChristopher WalkenBurgess MeredithJeff GoldblumEli WallachJose FerrerMartin BalsamChris SarandonArthur KennedySylvia MilesTom BerengerDeborah RaffinBeverly D'AngeloJerry Orbach and John Carradine. 

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