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Title: 1978 turns 45: What are your favorite movies of 1978?
Post by: claws on January 07, 2023, 11:32:34 AM
From movies I own:

1. Dawn of the Dead (1978)
2. Halloween (1978)
3. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
4. Grease (1978)
5. The Boys from Brazil (1978)
6. Coma (1978)
7. The Medusa Touch (1978)
8. Magic (1978)
9. Long Weekend (1978)
10. Someone's Watching Me! (1978)
11. The Inglorious Bastards (1978)
12. The Fury (1978)
13. Damien: Omen II (1978)
14. Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)
15. Patrick (1978)
16. Piranha (1978)
17. Jaws 2 (1978)
18. The Comeback (1978)
19. Circle of Iron (1978)
20. Militant Eagle (1978)
21. I Spit on Your Grave (1978)
22. The Evil (1978)
23. Thank God It's Friday (1978)
24. Summer of Fear (1978)
25. Killer's Delight (1978)
26. The Manitou (1978)
27. The Toolbox Murders (1978)
28. Slave of the Cannibal God (1978)
29. It Lives Again (1978)
30. Terror (1978)
31. Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell (1978)
32. The Tattoo Connection (1978)
33. The Redeemer: Son of Satan! (1978)
34. Escape from Women's Prison (1978)
35. Cyclone (1978)
36. Blackout (1978)
37. Dragon Lee vs. Five Brothers (1978)
38. The House of the Dead (1978)
39. Coach (1978)
40. Hell Hole (1978)
41. The Swarm (1978)
42. French Quarter (1978)
43. Barracuda (1978)
44. Spawn of the Slithis (1978)
45. Primitif (1978)
46. The Alpha Incident (1978)
47. Vampire Hookers (1978)
48. Night Creature (1978)
49. Laserblast (1978)
Title: Re: 1978 turns 45: What are your favorite movies of 1978?
Post by: Trevor on January 07, 2023, 03:02:35 PM
Some great ones there: The Medusa Touch ran into some censorship problems here as the apartheid censors wanted the entire ending taken out "as evil is seen to triumph"  :buggedout:
Title: Re: 1978 turns 45: What are your favorite movies of 1978?
Post by: RCMerchant on January 07, 2023, 03:45:27 PM
1. the Deer Hunter
2.Dawn of the Dead
3.the Toolbox Murders
4. Midnight Express
5. Halloween
6...hmm...not a lot of good choices...
Title: Re: 1978 turns 45: What are your favorite movies of 1978?
Post by: Allhallowsday on January 07, 2023, 04:29:25 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on January 07, 2023, 03:45:27 PM
1. the Deer Hunter
2.Dawn of the Dead
3.the Toolbox Murders
4. Midnight Express
5. Halloween
6...hmm...not a lot of good choices...

Your list could be mine, except I don't like MIDNIGHT EXPRESS all that much and if I saw TOOLBOX MURDERS, I don't remember. 

AN UNMARRIED WOMAN 
THE LAST WALTZ
THE MANITOU
AMERICAN GRAFFITI
A WEDDING
UP IN SMOKE
WATERSHIP DOWN
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
HALLOWEEN
DAWN OF THE DEAD
THE DEER HUNTER

 
THE MANITOU is such sparklingly BAD sh!t, I love it! 
Title: Re: 1978 turns 45: What are your favorite movies of 1978?
Post by: RCMerchant on January 07, 2023, 04:32:18 PM
Dang!

6. INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS

Good choice!

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Title: Re: 1978 turns 45: What are your favorite movies of 1978?
Post by: bob on January 08, 2023, 10:46:37 PM
in no real order

Halloween
Empire of Passion
I Spit on Your Grave
Superman
Drunken Master
Gates of Heaven
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Every Which Way but Loose
The Deer Hunter
Title: Re: 1978 turns 45: What are your favorite movies of 1978?
Post by: Rev. Powell on January 09, 2023, 09:18:56 AM
DAWN OF THE DEAD
WATERSHIP DOWN
THE HYPOTHESIS OF THE STOLEN PAINTING
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Czech)

and

THE MANITOU

1978 was not as good a year in film as I would have thought.
Title: Re: 1978 turns 45: What are your favorite movies of 1978?
Post by: zombie no.one on January 09, 2023, 09:28:07 AM
Quote from: claws on January 07, 2023, 11:32:34 AM

9. Long Weekend (1978)


I think this would scrape my top 25 of all time. don't know any other film that has quite the same feeling of claustrophobic tension and dread that this one has
Title: Re: 1978 turns 45: What are your favorite movies of 1978?
Post by: RCMerchant on January 09, 2023, 09:28:55 AM
Quote from: Rev. Powell on January 09, 2023, 09:18:56 AM
DAWN OF THE DEAD
WATERSHIP DOWN
THE HYPOTHESIS OF THE STOLEN PAINTING
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Czech)

and

THE MANITOU

1978 was not as good a year in film as I would have thought.

No HALLOWEEN?  :question: even?
Title: Re: 1978 turns 45: What are your favorite movies of 1978?
Post by: Rev. Powell on January 09, 2023, 09:47:08 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on January 09, 2023, 09:28:55 AM
Quote from: Rev. Powell on January 09, 2023, 09:18:56 AM
DAWN OF THE DEAD
WATERSHIP DOWN
THE HYPOTHESIS OF THE STOLEN PAINTING
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Czech)

and

THE MANITOU

1978 was not as good a year in film as I would have thought.

No HALLOWEEN?  :question: even?

Eh... I thought of including it. Not bad, but not really a favorite of mine.