Reel Brooklyn: The Sentinel, Brooklyn Heights

Reel Brooklyn is a biweekly column chronicling the definitive history of Brooklyn on-screen, one film—and neighborhood—at a time.
Perhaps it was the most extreme metaphor for Brooklyn gentrification ever: a swoon-worthy B-Heights brownstone whose only renters are adversaries in the Miltonic battle between God and Satan. A late-comer in the who’s-more-Catholic horror-movie fad that began with Rosemary’s Baby (1968) and reached pustulating white-head-ness with The Omen (19