![]() What makes The Sentinel special for me is its pacing, the interesting and slow building screenplay Winner adapted from the Jeffrey Konvitz novel is tight. You’ve got the aforementioned Wise film, The Legend of Hell House, The Shining (even if it’s not as good as King’s book), The Changeling, and the list goes on. It’s hard to set a movie aside from the pack and say “This is the best.” So many are actually good, too. Haunted house movies are incredibly common. Even more than that, Michael Winner’s movie is such a creepy, slow burn style horror, as well as the fact it draws on religious elements to achieve its supernatural thrill. There’s an intimacy to its depiction of haunting that really gets to me and lingers sort of how I feel about Robert Wise’s The Haunting, another haunted house movie I feel is built on an intimate feel of perspective. Personally, it’s my favourite haunted house-style film. Years later, finally, I was able to and it blew me away. When I really started to become a horror hound years ago, The Sentinel is a haunted house horror movie I’d heard about yet could never get the chance to see. ![]() Universal Pictures/Jeffrey Konvitz Productions. Starring Chris Sarandon, Cristina Raines, Martin Balsam, John Carradine, José Ferrer, Ava Gardner, Arthur Kennedy, Burgess Meredith, Sylvia Miles, Eli Wallach, Christopher Walken, Jerry Orbach, and Beverly D’Angelo. ![]() ![]() Directed & Written by Michael Winner based on the novel by Jeffrey Konvitz. ![]()
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