To the Devil a Daughter (1976)
May 21, 2003Satanism
The second-to-last Hammer film, an adaptation of one of Dennis Wheatley's occult novels, shows them trying to catch up with The Exorcist and its ilk
Richard Widmark
Twilight’s Last Gleaming (1977)
Apr 2, 2004Nuclear Missile Silo Hijacking
Robert Aldrich makes a thriller in which rogue general Burt Lancaster hijacks a nuclear missile silo and demands the truth about the Vietnam War be released. A big muscular production that attained some controversy at the time
Rollercoaster (1977)
Mar 18, 2005Psycho Bomber
1970s disaster movie with George Segal tracking Timothy Bottoms as a mad bomber blowing up rollercoasters
Coma (1978)
May 22, 2001Medical Conspiracy Thriller
Flush from the success of The Andromeda Strain and Westworld, Michael Crichton directed this medical conspiracy thriller, which returns to the fear of science themes that runs throughout his work
The Swarm (1978)
Feb 18, 2004Killer Bees Amok
Irwin Allen had great success in the 1970s with his disaster movies but this killer bee saga with a cast of big name stars uttering ridiculous dialogue and shabby effects proved a bomb that spelt the death knell for the genre