Martin
George A. Romero moves vampires from Transylvania to Pennsylvania (via Indiana) in this 1977 horror he should have called Interstate with the Vampire. Romero does for vampires what he previously […]
Tag Archives: 1977
The Hills Have Eyes
An affluent nuclear family’s RV breaks down on a military testing site where they’re terrorised by a nuclear family of a not-so-different kind. Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes is […]
The Grateful Dead Movie
When the late, great Robert Hunter wrote the Grateful Dead lyric “Such a long long time to be gone, and a moment to be there” he was probably describing life […]
3 Women
Robert Altman’s 1977 psychodrama 3 Women is set around the pool of an apartment block and inspired by the director’s dreams. Fortunately that’s where the similarities to M. Night Shyamalan’s […]
Jabberwocky
Terry Gilliam ambitiously attempts to turn Lewis Carrol’s famous nonsense poem (of Alice Through the Looking Glass fame) into a feature film, with not insubstantial embellishment. The film stars Michael […]
Saturday Night Fever
John Travolta plays an Italian-American called Tony in New York in the late 70s. He faces the drudgery of day-to-day life working in a hardware store, going nowhere, until Saturday […]
The Island of Dr Moreau
A young sailor, Braddock (Michael York), is adrift at sea looking for signs of life. Unfortunately for him he finds them in the form of an island populated by a […]
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