A big name cast is wasted in this weak religion-themed horror based on Jeffrey Konvitz's novel that has model/wannabe actress Cristina Raines moving into a gothic-looking brownstone apartment in New York and starting to have fainting spells (in fact she faints into a pane of window glass at one point) and visions of her deceased father and wacky neighbours (that include a lesbian couple, a blind priest and an odd old man). Soon it turns out that the apartment may just be a gateway to Hell.

Featuring early roles for Jeff Goldblum and Christopher Walken this sketchily plotted effort tries to mix in supernatural horror with crime drama only to come out feeling slowly paced, having a story that doesn't hang too well together and getting really sloppy in the finale (which trots out a parade of deformities - which director Winner apparently claimed were "real").

The only real moment of horror that works is when Raines is attacked by the corpse of her father (and she does a little slicing and dicing to it) otherwise this is tedious viewing.

Directed By: Michael Winner.
Written By: Michael Winner.

Starring: Chris Sarandon, Cristina Raines, Martin Balsam, John Carradine.