Sometimes a movie is so relentlessly cheesy and dated that it virtually becomes critic proof. Take that series of epically staged Edgar Rice Burroughs adaptations
Tag: 1976
Squirm
While describing the 70’s output of nature going crazy movies as a heyday may strain your personal definition of what a heyday should be, there’s
Midway
When filmmakers opt to make a film that covers a large aspect of a war, they invariably find themselves faced with something of a Sophie’s
The Eagle Has Landed
World War II men on a mission movies: we all know them and we all love them (the good ones, anyway) but sometimes, aside from
Eaten Alive
After The Texas Chainsaw Massacre had cut a bloody swathe through cinemas and drive-ins up and down America, maverick/lunatic Tobe Hooper had a decision to
Marathon Man
There’s something about a thriller that leeches off the anxiety and unrest of whatever traumatised decade it originated from that you just can’t beat. In
To The Devil A Daughter
By 1976, the once mighty Hammer Films was seemingly running on fumes after an existence that spanned over forty years, but after delivering a string
Assault On Precinct 13
An inspired fusion of Rio Bravo and Night Of The The Living Dead made for as little money as possible, Assault On Precinct 13 is
The Enforcer
By the third time Clint Eastwood dusted off his 44. Magnum, pulled on a pair of $29.50 slacks and did that swept back thing with
The Omen
Any movie that decided to deal with the devil immediately after the release of William Friedken’s The Exorcist in 1973 was surely damned to spend
King Kong
Remakes are a mixed bag. You either enhance the original concept with an updated viewpoint and enhanced technology or you bury it deeper than a
Rocky
Regardless of which sport manages to float your boat (including boating), surely the most cinematic sport of them all must surely be boxing: a literal
Grizzly
So influential was Jaws on release that it’s first imitator appeared on the scene barely (pun intended) a year later.Switching out a rampaging Carcharodon carcharias
Carrie
Back in the mists of time (1976 to be exact) a young, bold filmmaker named Brian DePalma adapted a novel by a bold horror novelist
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