“Faye Burdett could not have had the baby…because Faye Burdett is a man! A man whose name used to be Jack Cooper-a transvestite and female impersonator, perhaps the most convincing the world has ever known-a sinner against God and Christ!” Really, this is seriously what a priest in The Guardian says when he learns that the devil is a gay man/drag queen/transvestite (don’t forget, this was the 70s, so we were all one and the same) posing as a woman to raise a child and destroy the world (SPOILERS): But when the truth of the mystery finally…um…comes out, I literally laughed out loud, which I don’t often do when reading, especially while reading a horror novel. It’s pretty much a rehashed plot from the first book (and movie) about who will become the replacement sentinel in an apartment building guarded by a nun (see The Sentinel). The book introduces a couple of gay characters, and after having read The Sentinel, I was rather surprised at how “well-adjusted” the gay characters were this time, sure of their orientation and accepting of the fact that they were who they were made to be. By the time I was done reading this schizo mess, I was pretty convinced Konvitz is a self-loathing homo.
Konvitz’s sequel, the novel The Guardian, never made it to the big screen, but the book is a hot piece of religious extremist fiction. And it was virtually identical to the original book by Jeffrey Konvitz. This film was some serious religious horror.
…and the leading lady being a damn sinner because she didn’t want to get married and had tried to commit suicide, which therefore meant she had to suffer the consequences of her non-conformist lifestyle by repenting as the guardian of hell. Many horror fans remember the 1977 movie The Sentinel, most likely because the freaks in the attic with the blind old priest scared the bejesus out of them.
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