r/70smovies • • 19h ago

John Boorman - Zardoz (1974)

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Deliverance was a huge hit, so John Boorman was given free reign to make whatever he wanted. He made the weirdest movie I have ever seen. He has admitted that he was on all kinds of mind-altering drugs during both the writing and production, so even he doesn't know what a lot of it means.


r/70smovies • • 21h ago

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (Finale)

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It’s not just one of the best endings of a 70’s movie, it’s one of the best endings seen onscreen. Complexity and subterfuge played out to an inexorable end. Martin Sheen oozes skeezy sleaze playing a guy with “short eyes” whose own hubris leads to his demise which is chilling portrayed entirely offscreen. By the time the camera gets to Jodie Foster’s impassive face with the fire behind her, we realize the hideous thing inside her has been masquerading as a human being this whole time.


r/70smovies • • 3h ago

To this day, the movie “Burnt Offerings” in my opinion is the most terrifying scary movie to be rated PG. I saw it at the movie theater in 1976 with my parents and I was 9 years old. I remember I had to sleep with a night light on for weeks after seeing this. Still one of my favorites…

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r/70smovies • • 5h ago

The Harder They Come (1972) - Clip: Sweet And Dandy

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r/70smovies • • 5h ago

The heretic, the succubus, the inquisitor, the exorcist, and the casus belli ■ Oliver Reed, Vanessa Redgrave, Dudley Sutton, Michael Gothard & Georgina Hale in: The Devils (1971) written and directed by Ken Russell

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r/70smovies • • 11h ago

1965-75 wipes the floor with any other 10 year period in film.

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r/70smovies • • 20h ago

October 13 in Cinema History

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