If you found the gateway to Hell, what would you do? Run? Well, what if you found that you were living in the gate to Hell and you were the next chosen to guard it? Well, the girl in this movie finds this out. She has attempted suicide a few times, and her boyfriend helps her get a place to live. The only other person that lives in the apartment building is an old blind priest that is always looking out the window. After living there for a short time, she starts to see things. She meets people that also live in thing apartment building. There's the kind old man with the cat, the lesbian sisters, and other odd characters that she meets. Weird things begin to happen as she is told that the people that she met did once live in that apartment building but died after committing some crime. Everyone she had spoken to was dead. Everyone that knows her begins to think that she is going mad. Well, after the saying for the gates of hell is found in the building, the girl is attacked by the dead people and her boyfriend. The blind priest was the sentinel, the guard at the gates, and he is killed. She is chosen to replace him after the battle is completed. She is the next sentinel

Starring: Chris Sarandon, Cristina Raines, Martin Balsam, John Carradine, Jose Ferrer, Ava Gardner, Arthur Kennedy, Burgess Meredith, Sylvia Miles, Deborah Raffin, Eli Wallach, Christopher Walken, Jerry Orbach, Beverly D'Angelo, Hank Garrett

Director: Michael Winner

Released: 1977

Time: 92m/ 1 hour 32 min.