The Sentinel (1977)

A beautiful but unstable model (Cristina Raines, NASHVILLE) 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. If, say, someone like Ken Russell had directed it, it might have been outrageous fun but Michael Winner is a director who never rose above competence at his best. During the movie's big finale, it appears to exploit real malformed people (or "freaks" if you prefer) which gives off a bad taste. But then, then 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 Gardner, Christopher Walken, Burgess Meredith, Jeff Goldblum, Eli Wallach, Jose Ferrer, Martin Balsam, Chris Sarandon, Arthur Kennedy, Sylvia Miles, Tom Berenger, Deborah Raffin, Beverly D'Angelo, Jerry Orbach and John Carradine.