1977 was a killer year for science fiction. One of the year’s SF blockbusters featured an asthmatic in a mask and black cape fighting a…
Browsing: Movies 1977
Please note: The majority of movie posts contain spoilers.
This classic example of 70s British film erotica marks a mucky milestone in the history of the UK’s domestic cinema. Horny, humorous and hugely enjoyable,…
The Confessions films relied on a blend of saucy humour and ‘What the Butler Saw’-style smut (much loved by the Carry On team). This was the fourth…
Director Sam Peckinpah switches from his trademark westerns such as The Wild Bunch (1969) to another kind of savagery – this time it’s the Germans in retreat on…
The world has been devastated by a nuclear holocaust, causing the Earth to tilt on its axis bringing vast meteorological chaos. As the weather stabilises,…
The second of a watery trilogy of films deriving from the novels of Peter Benchley (Jaws came before it in 1975, and The Island after in 1980). Jacqueline…
An unusual science fiction thriller, Donald Cammell’s Demon Seed stars Julie Christie as child psychologist Susan Harris, whose marriage to her computer scientist husband, Alex (Fritz Weaver), becomes strained…
John Waters followed his two works of “accidental art”, Pink Flamingos (1972) and Female Trouble (1974), with this lurid ensemble melodrama – his most “serious” work. Peggy Gravel (Mink Stole) is…
Based (very) loosely on a short story by HG Wells, this AIP production starred Joan Collins as shady real estate agent Marilyn Fryser, who is…
Judge Hesther Saloman (Eileen Atkins) approaches morose psychiatrist Dr Martin Dysart (Richard Burton) with a request that he unravel the mind of troubled teenager Alan…
This classic from David Lynch blends paranoia, claustrophobia, and the ultra macabre into a truly unique story about a young man whose life changes dramatically…
Four years after she was possessed by the demon Pazuzu, 18-year-old Regan MacNeil (Linda Blair) is living a quiet life under the watchful eye of…
This sequel to Fantasm (1976) revolves around a journalist called Libby (Angela Menzies-Wills) who is taking over the “Dear Collette” sex advice column at her newspaper…
This was the first movie to truly show what it was really like to be an Australian teenager in the suburbs during the 1970s. The…
Richard Loncraine’s almost forgotten ghost story features Mia Farrow as Julia Lofting, a young mother grieving the loss of her eight-year-old daughter who moves to…
Clint Eastwood is down-on-his-luck alcoholic cop Ben Shockley, who is escorting prostitute Gus Mally (Eastwood’s then-girlfriend, Sondra Locke) from Las Vegas to a trial in…
Recognised as one of the best films to emerge from the Children’s Film Foundation (CFF), The Glitterball tells the story of a small, spherical, metallic alien (the ‘glitterball’…
Paula McFadden (Marsha Mason), a twice-deserted single mother and ex-dancer with a 10-year-old daughter (Quinn Cummings), seems fated to be the ‘goodbye girl’ whom lovers…
Millionaire’s daughter Paula Powers (Nancy Morgan) steals her dad’s Rolls Royce and heads off to Las Vegas to get married to Sam Freeman (Ron Howard).…
Another ride with the Love Bug finds Herbie – the 1963 VW beetle with sunroof and red, white and blue racing stripes – in a…