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Post by snsurone on Oct 8, 2019 22:22:47 GMT
It starred Chris Sarandon (Susan's ex) and is based on a best-selling novel.
It concerns a young woman who moves into a Brooklyn brownstone, not realizing that it is the entrance to Hell.
SPOILER ALERT:
Did the movie end the same way as the novel, where the heroine becomes a withered old woman, blind, deaf, paralyzed and totally demented, sitting near the entrance to Hell, clutching a gold crucifix in her gnarled hands?
I believe it's called THE SENTINEL, but I'm not sure.
Have any of you seen this movie?
I haven't; the book was harrowing enough!
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Post by jervistetch on Oct 8, 2019 22:52:11 GMT
Yes. It is THE SENTINEL. The movie terrified me when it premiered in theaters. If I recall correctly, that is how the film ended although I can’t remember if she was withered or not.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 9, 2019 4:20:02 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 9, 2019 4:21:20 GMT
 Det. Rizzo  : All killers, all dead. She went to a party with eight dead murderers. Det. Gatz : Doesn't everybody?
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 9, 2019 4:24:30 GMT
 Miss Logan : I find that New Yorkers have no sense for anything but sex and money. Alison Parker : Well, I guess there's something to be said for that. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 9, 2019 4:27:31 GMT
"There are 2 different versions of the movie. The "uncut" one on DVD and BRD feature catholic church, nudity and gore. The "censored" one for TV has all the church parts deleted and replaced by the "brotherhood of the sentinels". The nudity, gore and dream scenes have been deleted almost to the point of harming the understanding of the plot. Some stuff have been added though on the rare and unreleased censored version: random devil pictures, a devil ring, a chronology of the sentinels and the police scene "it was suicide". This version was only available on cable TV. " from the IMDb trivia page www.imdb.com/title/tt0076683/trivia?ref_=tt_ql_2 |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 9, 2019 18:13:22 GMT
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Post by cynthiagreen on Oct 10, 2019 5:03:57 GMT
Yes it does end same way.
Mediocre but an astonishing cast for this sort of horror schlock -Cristina Raines has lead - plus B Meredith, A Kennedy, Eli Wallach, M Balsam, Sylvia Miles, Tom Berenger, Jose Ferrer, Deborah Raffin, Jeff Goldblum & Beverly D'Angelo in addition to those already shown or mentioned.
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Post by politicidal on Oct 10, 2019 15:35:49 GMT
Sounds cool. Now I know what it's called.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 15, 2019 14:28:31 GMT
Sounds cool. Now I know what it's called. and as a special bonus, you even know how it ends so you don't have to bother watching it ! 
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Post by Eλευθερί on Oct 16, 2019 1:22:20 GMT
Yes it does end same way.
Mediocre but an astonishing cast for this sort of horror schlock -Cristina Raines has lead - plus B Meredith, A Kennedy, Eli Wallach, M Balsam, Sylvia Miles, Tom Berenger, Jose Ferrer, Deborah Raffin, Jeff Goldblum & Beverly D'Angelo in addition to those already shown or mentioned. Gotta disagree there. When I saw the cut version on tv as a kid, it gave me nightmares for weeks. When I got older, I was turned off by it because I felt it was unnecessarily homophobic. Watching it again in recent years, including the uncut version last night, I feel it is still strong for a horror film from that era. It's similar to Polanski's Rosemary's Baby in a number of respects (eg a young female protagonist living in New York City). It takes quite a while before any elements of the supernatural are revealed to the viewer. For most of the early part of the film, we are just exposed to her fairly ordinary life, attending her father's funeral and apartment-hunting in NYC. So the tension really builds up before the scary stuff shows up.
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