Subgenre Sampler
Cult: 1365 Films to Buy & Rent
Wiz, The (1978)
- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Richard Pryor
- Much maligned 'black musical' version of L. Frank Baum's classic fairytale (best known through the Judy Garland version).
Here, New York City was…
Backroads (1977)
- Dir. Phillip Noyce
Feat. Bill Hunter
- This short road–movie was a moody debut for dir. Noyce, laying out the tale of two drifters (one black, one white) who steal a car for an…
Bad (Andy Warhol's Bad) (1977)
- Dir. Jed Johnson
Feat. Carroll Baker, Perry King, Susan Tyrrell
- The last Andy Warhol production before his death is a pleasingly demented soap–opera directed by Jed Johnson, a man who originally worked…
Billy Jack Goes to Washington (1977)
- Dir. Tom Laughlin
Feat. Tom Laughlin, Pat O'Brien, Richard Gautier
- Minor followup to the counter–culture hit BILLY JACK, utilises the same 'violent pacifist' hero in a bizarre, but solid update of Capra's MR…
Children of the Stones (TV Mini-Series) (1977)
- Dir. Peter Graham Scott
Feat. Gareth Thomas, Iain Cuthbertson
- A spooky classic of British television, in which a scientist and his son move to the village of Milbury, only to be sucked into a quasi–pagan…
Confessions from a Holiday Camp (1977)
- Dir. Norman Cohen
Feat. Robin Askwith, Anthony Booth
- Askwith and Booth are back in this final tired entry of a the series. Fans will by now know what to expect. Those who don't would be advised to…
Confessions of a Driving Instructor (1977)
- Dir. Norman Cohen
Feat. Robin Askwith, Anthony Booth, Windsor Davies
- Third in the series has Askwith once again in the titular role. Expect jokes about stick shifts.
Count Dracula (TV Mini-series) (1977)
- Dir. Philip Saville
Feat. Louis Jourdan, Frank Finlay, Susan Penhaligon…
- Faithful 70's adaptation of the classic horror novel by Bram Stoker, this critically–acclaimed BBC version utilises London's Highgate Cemetery…
Crime Busters (1977)
- Dir. Enzo Barboni
Feat. Bud Spencer, Terence Hill, David Huddleston
- An attempted robbery turns to be an unexpected recruitment when two unemployed men mistakenly break into a police office instead of a store.
Damnation Alley (1977)
- Dir. Jack Smight
Feat. Jan-Michael Vincent, George Peppard, Dominique Sanda…
- Post–apocalyptic thriller that follows a group of WWIII survivors at a military installation who drive across the desolate wasteland to find…