I Love the 70's.....

[RCMerchant]

I really love the scummy low-budget and no budget films of the 70's. Like...
DON'T LOOK IN THE BASEMENT-"Over the hill and down the glen,never go hunting for fear of little men...!"
I DRINK YOUR BLOOD
DRACULA vs. FRANKENSTEIN
the awsomely Bad BLOOD FREAK!!!!
AVENGING DISCO GODFATHER!!!!!
The rarely seen obscurity NIGHT of BLOODY HORROR with Gerald (MAJOR DAD)McRaney as a psycho!!! I have this on vhs....I'll have to do a mini recap of it soon...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX2_rfDw8qw


soooooo many more !

[trekgeezer]

The 70's was the decade of the director, they could get away with a lot more back then.  Even the big budget films had a sorta independent feel to them. 


I was the cashier at the local drive-in in 78-79 while going to school after my stint in the Navy.  Saw a lot of schlocky stuff.

[the ghoul]

On the subject of drive-ins...

My dad knew this guy, he might still I'm not entirely sure but anyway he worked at this pizza place near a dive-in nd they would watch the movies there for free (without sound though WTF???) and he claims, that The Exorsist is not scary at all without sound, he's seen it both ways so he knows how it is.

P.S.  He watched it without sound first,so my WTF stands.

I don't think The Exorcist is scary even WITH the sound, so he is probably right!

[Classic Camp]

I always found the 70s to be sort of a transitionary decade. I think the 80s gave the start of the true "Blockbuster" as it is defined today, while the 60s was the last decade where independent studios could still compete on a regular basis and have at least close to the same look as a big studio flick. This gave the 70s sort of the best (and I suppose in some ways the worst) of both worlds.

[AndyC]

Gotta love the 70s as the decade of the futuristic dystopia. Granted, dystopian films go all the way back to the silent era, and many of the adapted stories were written in the 50s and 60s, but the film genre really came of age with stuff like Logan's Run, THX 1138, A Boy and His Dog, Rollerball, Death Race 2000, Soylent Green, Zardoz, Sleeper, and so on.

Also can't forget the explosion of disaster flicks, such as Airport, Earthquake, The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure.

Or as the many small towns being overrun by small creatures, including frogs, spiders, worms, bees, tomatoes, etc.

[trekgeezer]

Don't forget the comedies.  People took a lot chances, Mel Brooks could never have made Blazing Saddles in the politically correct times we live in now.

Young Frankenstein , the Pink Panther movies, Monty  Python and the Holy Grail, The Life of Brian, and others. Hell, the list could go on and on .

They seem to be wanting to remake everyone of them these days.   The 70's was one of the greatest decades for movies.