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1978 turns 45: What are your favorite movies of 1978?

Started by claws, January 07, 2023, 11:32:34 AM

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claws

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)
Is it October yet?

Trevor

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:
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

RCMerchant

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...
Supernatural?...perhaps. Baloney?...Perhaps not!" Bela Lugosi-the BLACK CAT (1934)
Interviewer-"Does Dracula ever end for you?
Lugosi-"No. Dracula-never ends."
Slobber, Drool, Drip!
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Allhallowsday

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! 
If you want to view paradise . . . simply look around and view it!

RCMerchant

#4
Dang!

6. INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS

Good choice!

Supernatural?...perhaps. Baloney?...Perhaps not!" Bela Lugosi-the BLACK CAT (1934)
Interviewer-"Does Dracula ever end for you?
Lugosi-"No. Dracula-never ends."
Slobber, Drool, Drip!
https://www.tumblr.com/ronmerchant

bob

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
Kubrick, Nolan, Tarantino, Wan, Iñárritu, Scorsese, Chaplin, Abrams, Wes Anderson, Gilliam, Kurosawa, Villeneuve - the elite



I believe in the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

Rev. Powell

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.
I'll take you places the hand of man has not yet set foot...

zombie no.one

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

RCMerchant

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?
Supernatural?...perhaps. Baloney?...Perhaps not!" Bela Lugosi-the BLACK CAT (1934)
Interviewer-"Does Dracula ever end for you?
Lugosi-"No. Dracula-never ends."
Slobber, Drool, Drip!
https://www.tumblr.com/ronmerchant

Rev. Powell

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.
I'll take you places the hand of man has not yet set foot...