The Sentinel (1977)
As a young girl, Alison Parker attempted suicide after being traumatized by her father's sexual exploits. Now an elite fashion model, she moves to a Brooklyn Heights apartment building that houses a number of bizarre, eccentric tenants. After experiencing a string of disturbing occurrences, she attempts to uncover the building's sinister secret. based on novel or book, italy, secret society, hell, priest, hellgate, lawyer, church, model, demon, police detective, crucifix, brooklyn, new york city, occult, murder investigation, shocking, hopeless, foreboding, frightened, horrified, ominous