Damn it! There’s a movie I remember( probably the 70’s about A portal to another dimension or reality. I think there may have been a female protagonist who was may have been required to be the gatekeeper to deal with the entities who came through the portal( that part’s a little fuzzy). Even though I was an adult(technically) it scared the shite out of me. I remember one scene of one deformed being rising up and walking on it’s hands in stop action and it was scary as hell.
Honestly, it was like Fellini making a horror movie. The visuals were creepy. I know my description may remind you of several movies, but this one stuck in my mind. Something like “The Gate” “The Guardian”? Can’t quite recover the title from my remaining brain cells.

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The Opening of Misty Beethoven

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Caddyshack 2

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Posted on 3/28/20 at 1:50 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa

Different portal, but I remember that one when it was made. Another artistic achievement in porn. And the delightful Ms. Constance Money made her debut.
Different movie.

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Double Jeopardy

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Ghost Dad

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The gate

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The Sentinel

Found an article about some of the zillion portal to hell or alternate reality movies. Here is their description of this one. 7 Best Gateway to Hell Movies

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The Sentinel is an odd little horror film from the ‘70s that you might have never even heard about, even though it boasts the likes of people like Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Walken, and Burgess Meredith in its cast. It even has one of the more original plots from out of these films where a model moves into a brownstone apartment in Brooklyn that turns out to be owned by disgraced priests with the building being a gateway to Hell. It’s something that almost feels downright Polanski-esque or verging on Argento’s work in its execution, which is never a bad thing either.

The Sentinel actually goes to some pretty bizarre places. Alison, the model, continues to pry into the building’s history, which results in her learning that the blind excommunicated priest who owns the building is actually a gatekeeper. His job is to police the Hell opening and make sure that no demons escape, but now that his life is coming to an end, the gateway is in need of a new Sentinel, with Alison being their selection. That’s actually a concept I’m super into and The Sentinel doesn’t shy away from tapping into how bleak of a story this is (it also taunts Alison over her past suicide attempts, turning it into an even more grim survivor’s guilt parable). The passage towards the end where Hell literally breaks loose and chases a desperate Alison through the apartment building is also an effectively frightening high note—not to mention controversial one (people with real deformities were cast as these demons)—for the film to go out on.