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The Vanishing
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FilmPG-132006
The Sentinel
Directed by Clark Johnson
Veteran Secret Service agent Pete Garrison investigates a colleague's murder and is subsequently framed as a mole in an assassination attempt on the President due to the machinations of a blackmailer who knows the secret he is hiding. Disgraced, dismissed, and now a fugitive with two relentless federal investigators hot on his heels, Garrison must both clear his name and save the president from assassination. From TMDB
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The Sentinel is a 2006 action thriller crime film, directed by Clark Johnson, starring Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland and Eva Longoria.
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60 of 176 · most liked firstThe Sentinel (1977) is a visually grotesque, and deeply unsettling occult horror film. It stands as one of the most eccentric studio horror releases of the 1970s, blending high-fashion New York atmosphere, psychological dread, and a surreal descent into demonic carnage. #horror #horrormovies
positive · AI labelView post →🛶 The Sentinel and the Flow For a moment — no faces, no motion. Just the river, the monument, the factory. The confluence where the Moskva River meets the canal, and the city becomes a panorama. Peter gazes outward, and we gaze at him. #filmphotography #blackandwhite #landscape #cityscape #35mm #bw
neutral · AI labelView post →The Langella DRACULA rocks and THE SENTINEL is a really messed up Michael Winner horror movie
positive · AI labelView post →Tonight's film The Sentinel (1977)
neutral · AI labelView post →Picking a (not so) random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Year 2, Day #301 "The Sentinel" (Michael Winner/1977) Interesting late 70s hidden gem about an apartment in NYC built on the gate to hell. It's worth your time to check it out.
positive · AI labelView post →Looking out from the Sentinel Dome trail. Shot on Agfa Scala 200x film. #filmphotography #slidefilm #yosemetinationalpark
neutral · AI labelView post →#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday Another slow movie week for me. Two new films, both watched last night on TCM, and had problems with both, especially THE SENTINEL, which was terrific fun until the last 15 minutes. The ending sucked, and not in a subjective way. Objectively, it was horrible.
neutral · AI labelView post →you need to watch The Sentinel this is a hidden gem of a horror film
positive · AI labelView post →I don't know how this happened, but Michael Winner’s THE SENTINEL (1977) w/ Cristina Raines (and an all-star cast of familiar faces) is now on Netflix. Excluding PSYCHO, THE BIRDS, and JAWS, it’s now their oldest horror movie. Everybody watch it and we can totally game their algorithm. #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching The Sentinel (1977), which has maybe the most “oh hey they’re in this!” Cast outside of a Robert Altman movie
neutral · AI labelView post →No director has caused me more annoyance that the late Michael Winner; while his 1977 horror The Sentinel has many fans including Edgar Wright, I'm not one of them, and it's recent appearance on streaming gave me the chance to put the boot into this sorry film. 1/5 film-authority.com/2025/04/08/t...
negative · AI labelView post →Too sleepy to work today, so I put on the horror movie The Sentinel, and man, that is a wild movie.
positive · AI labelView post →#scifisky #filmsky #scifi #movies #2001:ASpaceOdyssey 🎬📽️ Arthur C. Clarke's first '2001' novel was developed concurrently with Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film version and published after the film's release. The novel is based in part on some of his short stories including "The Sentinel" (1948).
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight’s film, The Sentinel (1977). From Variety’s review at the time - "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." #horrorsky
neutral · AI labelView post →THE SENTINEL (1977, VOD, #film) 33% phenomenal Italian-style horrorschlock, 66% dull as dirt religious conspiracy/mystery, and 1% mega-offensive, this is a *corker*! Truly trashy with a wild cast and every single performance is a catastrophe. Chris Sarandon is dire. h/t: @kellylink.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →THE SENTINEL (1977) is a bad movie. Yeah, that's right, I went there.
negative · AI labelView post →Remembering the delightfully eccentric Sylvia Miles, iconic Oscar-nominated character actress, on her 102nd birthday, acclaimed for roles in VIOLENT MIDNIGHT, MIDNIGHT COWBOY, THE LAST MOVIE, FAREWELL MY LOVELY, THE SENTINEL, THE FUNHOUSE, EVIL UNDER THE SUN, WALL STREET, CROSSING DELANCEY, and more
neutral · AI labelView post →New episode, now streaming over at our free Patreon, we got to talk about Michael Winner movies (The Sentinel, Scream for Help and The Nightcomers) with our friend, and movie genius, James Hancock listen here 👇/👉 www.patreon.com/posts/141057...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Sentinel is an absolutely awful film that I’ve watched at least ten times
negative · AI labelView post →Movie #1 is AIP’s spin on THE DUNWICH HORROR, starring Sandra Dee and Dean Stockwell. Haven’t seen this since, uh, college? High school? Trailers were: The Sentinel, Seizure, and Let’s Scare Jessica to Death.
neutral · AI labelView post →284) The Sentinel (1977) #Splatterday on Fawesome #MutantFam #HorrorCommunity #NowWatching #TheSentinel
neutral · AI labelView post →#nowwatching The Sentinel on Shudder. First time watch for me and @missjhamm.bsky.social. I know nothing about this movie so let’s see if it’s got that 70’s horror jank. #monsterlodge #horrorsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie depiction of high fashion shoots in the 1970s always include slinky dresses and large dogs. Also See: The Sentinel, & our next film 🤣 #fullmoonfrights
neutral · AI labelView post →TCM once again proved the C stands for "crack" by showing THE SENTINEL, the plum nasty 1977 movie that showed a portal to Hell existed in Brooklyn Heights (where it should be). Don't rent a place from Ava Gardner, and don't let Michael Winner direct your novel. DVRed it just to see how Ben spins it.
positive · AI labelView post →I'm not saying I found another piece of the jackass's plagiarism, but the boarding house in the 1977 horror film The Sentinel bears a lot of vibes-similarity to the boarding house Rose Walker lives in in the "A Doll's House" arc of Sandman.
neutral · AI labelView post →I recently watched the horror film The Sentinel (1977). While it was silly and boring there seemed like there could have been something there. Enter the 1974 novel. At 39% of the way through I know I’m wasting my time. The plot is derivative and the protagonist is tiresome. I’m done. #horrorsky
negative · AI labelView post →Today's matinee movie is The Sentinel (1977) 🍿📽️ filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Post a movie that doesn't get enough love but should! You know what? I'm going with The Sentinel (1977). Its a remarkable film from the golden era of horror and deserves just as much love & respect as The Exorcist, TCM, Dawn of the Dead, Halloween, The Omen, Carrie, etc...
positive · AI labelView post →It’s a rest day for me (still healing from my surgery) and a lovely stormy day out, so it’s movies, movies, movies all day. Next #Movie starts… now. #NowWatching The Sentinel (1977) 🟠🟢🔵: boxd.it/1HoG 👀 🫳🏼🍿 #Filmsky #Horrorsky #Moviesky
neutral · AI labelView post →7 - "The Sentinel." I haven't watched it since, but it scared the shit out of me. It was years before I could sleep without a night light, thanks to that film.
positive · AI labelView post →A truly wild movie that was long overdue for coverage. Happy (and bewildered - lol) to finally cross off THE SENTINEL on the pod.
positive · AI labelView post →I have for some reason never heard of the 1977 film 'The Sentinel'. We just started watching it and my husband was first annoyed I kept shouting out the cast credit names, and then agreeing they were worthy of surprise. When 'Jerry Orbach' appeared we both passed out. Marlowe had to revive us.
neutral · AI labelView post →Today, we're gonna post any 4 horror movies with a nun. #HorrorFam #horrorsky #filmsky #moviesky #Horror #HorrorMovies "The Sentinel" (1977) "Sister Krampus" (2021) "A Nun's Curse" (2019) and the obvious "The Conjuring 2" (2016)
neutral · AI labelView post →His short story The Sentinel is what inspired Stanley to make the movie. Arthur was then involved from the very beginning in the making of the movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Unrelatedly, The Sentinel is a pretty decent flick! It has a half-dozen Future Very Famous People in extremely small roles, which is fun. It has peak late-70s sex for the sake of being shocking, which gets a bit tiresome? But the overall film is a treat.
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie Cat of the Week is Jezebel from Michael Winner's THE SENTINEL (1977). His owner (Burgess Meredith) throws Jezebel a birthday party and invites all the neighbors... who are incarnations of evil. Read more: MEOW! CATS IN HORROR, SCI-FI, AND FANTASY MOVIES. #cats #birthdaycat #meow #horrormovie
neutral · AI labelView post →For a "zomg satan" movie of its era, The Sentinel has a lot going for it. A mystery, spooky stuff, a compelling lead. Lost me at the end, and the use of some "hey let's ogle the deformed and disabled people" wasn't great, but overall: still better than The Exorcist. 👻🎥 #horror #horrorsky #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Somehow had never seen The Sentinel before tonight (aside from one obvious and hilarious lesbian scene) and oh my god this movie is amazing: it has everything! ghosts! Devils! Jeff Goldblum! 70s Brooklyn! Catholic fuckery! Lesbians! A cat in a party hat!
positive · AI labelView post →Tonight’s movie: The Sentinel - kooky evil weirdness in one of those dreamy 1970s New York apartments letterboxd.com/film/the-sen...
neutral · AI labelView post →The week's film The Sentinel (1977)
neutral · AI labelView post →"We're looking to let our hair down a little bit, squeezing in some coverage of the outer boroughs. Nothing like you're used to, of course. This is, after all, The Sentinel. We cover the world." -- Editor of the New York "Sentinel" in the 1993 movie The Paper.
neutral · AI labelView post →BUUUT both the film and the book are inspired by the Clarke story "The Sentinel," about an alien structure on the Moon which humanity accidentally destroys, which Kubrick optioned from Clarke. so arguably the film, although not an adaption of the novel, is an adaptation of the *story*.
neutral · AI labelView post →Remembering the great John Carradine, classic film character actor on his 120th birthday, seminal for many roles in films including CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS, STAGECOACH, THE GRAPES OF WRATH, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE LAST HURRAH, THE SENTINEL, THE HOWLING, PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED, among others.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Sentinel This movie builds to a pretty crazy ending.
neutral · AI labelView post →@therealsnicks.bsky.social @roni1133.bsky.social Saw one of my fave 70s horror paperback, THE SENTINEL, had a movie adaptation! On one hand its a rehash of ROSEMARY'S BABY & THE EXORCIST but on the other hand Burgess Meredith has a birthday party for his cat & Beverly DAngelo plays a nympho lesbian.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Sentinel goes pretty hard for a studio film. It's not on my top 10 list or anything, but I dig it and am glad to have the Blu ray on my shelf.
positive · AI labelView post →That the horror movie reference here is Michael Winner's The Sentinel is the Joe Dante difference #TheBurbs #TCMParty
neutral · AI labelView post →Just a small issue with the #bbcbreakfast quiz which incorrectly claimed that 2001: A Space Odyssey was based on the book of the same name by Arthur C. Clark. It was based in part on the short story The Sentinel. The 2001 book came from the film. </nerd>
neutral · AI labelView post →28. The Sentinel has been on my list for movies I've needed to watch for a good long while. A horror movie with Burgess Meredith, Jerry Orbach, and Martin Balsam, three of my favorite actors of all time? How was I NOT going to love this letterboxd.com/cckirby/film...
positive · AI labelView post →#Horror365Challenge 287/365: The Sentinel (1977) Solid film overall.
positive · AI labelView post →I can't say I *recommend* The Sentinel, there's nothing special about it. But I've rewatched it three Octobers in a row? It's a VERY 1970s horror film. You get what you get. But it's a solid 3 out of 5 stars, and it's on Netflix, and I enjoy it!
neutral · AI labelView post →I just saw him last weekend when I watched The Sentinel. Jam packed with talent, that movie. Not a good movie, but jam packed.
negative · AI labelView post →Movie 89: The Sentinel (1977) Netflix #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days #HorrorSky #HorrorMovies #Horror candikathorror.com/watches/the-sentinel-1977
neutral · AI labelView post →Shocktober 14: THE SENTINEL (1977). The greatest horror in this film is the misuse of a numerous cast of great actors from several generations whose efforts are wholly wasted here. There were some genuinely creepy moments, as in the infernal birthday party of Mortimer the cat (1/x)
negative · AI labelView post →#NowWatching Film 22 of 31 The Sentinel (1977) dir. Michael Winner
neutral · AI labelView post →Don't think I also fully realised that this compilation films opens with a swift inclusion of the Sentinel Base logo at the start of the film to help you believe that Sun Probe and Ricochet are one unified set of events. Lolz.
neutral · AI labelView post →I love 70's movies like "The Sentinel", "Burnt Offerings" and others but had never watched or even heard of "Don't Look Now" (1973). Just watched it and it makes no sense at all. I love Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie not so much, but this movie just left me going "Whaaaaaa???" #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →The Sentinel, a 2000s thriller with all the 2000s things (affair, certain type of movie logic, unrealism, "interesting" use of technology, the look etc.), but it was engaging and entertaining enough, largely due to good cast and just its premise and execution. Solid. #FilmSky #MovieSky
positive · AI labelView post →Well, somebody obviously saw “The Sentinel!” A movie way more successful with atmosphere than with plot… We reconvene in about 20 minutes for Dagon. youtu.be/muGHl-Endow?... #fullmoonfrights
neutral · AI labelView post →Now watching: THE SENTINEL Every apartment building in a 70s NYC horror joint *has* to have a gateway to Hell in the basement (next to the laundry room). The cast list for this one is kind of wild. #filmsky
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