1977 – We Have Issues

Airport ’77 (1977) – Review

January 8, 2025 greigzilla

Flying may be the safest way to travel statistically speaking, but the Airport franchise pretty much did everything it could to disprove that theory over

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977) – Review

August 10, 2024 greigzilla

You know that feeling when you sit down to watch a movie that you’ve taken for granted since forever and you suddenly say to yourself

The Psychic (1977) – Review

April 8, 2024 greigzilla

Anyone familiar with the more outrageous moments of Lucio Fulci’s output will no doubt be aware that once the maniacal sod entered the gorier era

The Mighty Peking Man (1977) – Review

March 25, 2024 greigzilla

Insisting that all the 70s remake of King Kong was missing was more Asians and a far hornier ape, Shaw Brothers studios broke away from

Martin (1977) – Review

January 4, 2024 greigzilla

George A. Romero had already earned himself a reputation for adding an original spin on classic horror tropes thanks to his bold reinvention of the

Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) – Review

June 13, 2023 greigzilla

Sequelizing William Friedkin’s The Exorcist was never going to be an easy job as, for all intents and purposes, it’s as perfect a horror film

The People That Time Forgot (1977) – Review

April 2, 2023 greigzilla

As a young child, any kind of public holiday meant that the lunchtime airwaves would be alive with movies of varying genres and even more

Smokey And The Bandit (1977) – Review

February 21, 2023 greigzilla

When pondering the nature of the redneck action comedy, there’s two titles that immediately spring to mind. One is the the infamous, Eastwood and an

The Incredible Melting Man (1977) – Review

January 30, 2023 greigzilla

There’s something about a truly lurid movie title that speaks directly to that lizard part of my brain and demands that I have to simply

Kingdom Of The Spiders (1977) – Review

December 14, 2022 greigzilla

One of the more fondly remembered killer bug movies of the 70’s, Kingdom Of The Spiders is a film that, much like its eight legged

Rabid (1977) – Review

April 19, 2022 greigzilla

A couple of years after he almost singlehandedly shut down the Canadian film industry with Shivers (aka. They Came From Within), canuck king of venereal

The Hills Have Eyes (1977) – Review

April 6, 2022 greigzilla

After making the cinema going public of 1972 collectively want to scrub themselves with bleach after the release of The Last House On The Left,

Orca: The Killer Whale (1977) – Review

March 1, 2022 greigzilla

I’ve mentioned the effect Steven Spielberg’s Jaws had on cinema more times than there are fish in the sea, but while the many also-rans and

Suspiria (1977) – Review

February 23, 2022 greigzilla

From the beginning of his career in 1970 with the stunning and stylish The Bird With The Crystal Plumage, to 1975’s seminal Profondo Rosso (Deep

Cross Of Iron (1977) – Review

July 27, 2021 greigzilla

What with lunatic/maverick filmmaker Sam Peckenpah’s proclivity for fashioning incredibly brutal adventures featuring unfeasibly grizzled men trying to find a sliver of decency in horrific

The Island Of Dr Moreau (1977) – Review

May 14, 2021 greigzilla

Fate hasn’t been kind to the various attempts Hollywood has made to realise H.G. Wells’ epic novel of science run amok and although cinema’s first

Sinbad And The Eye Of The Tiger (1977) – Review

February 1, 2021 greigzilla

While the title evokes images of the legendary adventurer running up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum Of Art in order to get in shape

Tentacles (1977) – Review

October 12, 2020 greigzilla

I think we’re all in agreement when I say there’s nothing worse than going out for a midnight swim and being grabbed firmly by the

Spider-Man (1977) – Review

July 18, 2019 greigzilla

Watching the repeated attempts of Marvel to desperately realise the pantheon of their much-loved characters during the procession of squirm inducing TV movies during the