THE EROTIC ADVENTURES OF TOM BOMBADIL (Ralph Bakshi, 1978)
This controversial X-rated cartoon offered a speculative origin for the relationship of Goldberry & Tom Bombadil that outraged or titillated every Tolkien fan. Nevertheless, it’s cult following has continued to endure.
THE ENCHANTING BUT DECIDEDLY UNEROTIC ADVENTURES OF TOM BOMBADIL (Hildebrandt, 1980)
Ralph Bakshi’s controversial X-rated 1978 cartoon prompted the Brothers Hildebrandt to animate a wholesome alternative origin for the relationship of Goldberry & Tom Bombadil.
KEN RUSSELL’S DRACULA (1980).
An ancient and elegant vampire with a taste for the blood of genius travels to London.
Starring Peter O’Toole, with Peter Ustinov as Dr. Van Helsing, Oliver Reed as Renfield, Michael York as Harker, Sarah Miles as Mina, and Mia Farrow as Lucy.
THE EAST TEXAS BONEYARD (Tobe Hooper, 1980)
A tenacious Texas Ranger named Sergeant Cordell "Southpaw" Enright (Chuck Norris) goes rogue while investigating a decades-long series of unsolved chainsaw killings. With Jim Siedow, Gunnar Hansen, L. Q. Jones, and Claudian Jennings.
THE SHINING (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
Jill Torrance (Jacqueline Nicholson), a resentful mother and recovering alcoholic, undergoes a sinister metamorphosis after her husband (Sheldon Duvall) agrees to become caretaker at an isolated hotel in the Rockies.
THE FIREMAN (Rick Dalton, 1980)
In this AVCO Embassy video classic, an NYPD detective (Rick Dalton), still suffering from PTSD after two tours in Vietnam, seeks revenge when his partner (Samuel L. Jackson) is murdered by corrupt cops. With Jim Brown, Ralph Meeker, Lynda Day George, & Jane Kennedy.
THE FIREMAN (Rick Dalton, 1980)
In this AVCO Embassy video classic, an NYPD detective (Rick Dalton), still suffering from PTSD after two tours in Vietnam, seeks revenge when his partner (Samuel L. Jackson) is murdered by corrupt cops. With Jim Brown, Ralph Meeker, Lynda Day George, & Jane Kennedy.
GAME OF DEATH (Bruce Lee, 1973)
Gangsters force a warrior to take part in the robbery of a mysterious Korean pagoda which contains a treasure guarded by five martial arts masters. Bruce Lee, George Lazenby, Robert Wall, Shih Kien, James Tien, Chieh Yuan, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
SUNDOWN (Gordon Parks Jr., 1973)
A tight-knit security team finds itself feeling isolated, harassed, and under siege when their client (an iconic Motown singer) moves to a wealthy New England town. James Earl Jones, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, Diana Ross.
JESSE JAMES MEETS BLACULA (William Beaudine, 1973)
Jesse and Frank James (Giuliano Gemma & John Drew Barrymore) get more than they bargain for after mistaking the coffin of vampire Prince Mamuwalde (William Marshall) for a chest of confederate gold during a train robbery.
HUNTER'S MOON (Jack Hill, 1973)
An herbalist, rootworker, and community activist (Pam Grier) must forge an alliance with "the werewolf king of New Orleans" (Calvin Lockhart) when an enigmatic foreign count (Christopher Lee) begins killing sex workers in the French Quarter.
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SEE YOU NEXT WEDNESDAY (Carl La Fong, 1973)
SUNDOWN (Gordon Parks Jr., 1973)
A tight-knit security team finds itself feeling isolated, harassed, and under siege when their client (an iconic Motown singer) moves to a wealthy New England town. James Earl Jones, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, Diana Ross.
From 1973, it’s DIANA, a sitcom starring Diana Rigg.
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3D printed zoetrope by Kevin Holmes makes frogs appear to leap endlessly on lily pads using optical illusion
CURRIED was a cult BBC talk show, which ran from 1976 to 1982, where host Tim Curry interviewed celebrities while they ate increasingly spicy dishes of Desi cuisine, leading to revealing and often hilarious moments as the heat intensified.
as a bonus we can reveal to western audiences during this show that they have been lied to for like 50 years and Vindaloo in India is actually not half as spicy as they make it here because throwing in a bunch of chillies is an easy way to not have to worry about the recipe
The Uk needs a version of Hot Ones but for desi food called Curried which is hosted by Tim Curry, there you go, I just made your network eleventy billion dollars
THE DRAGON FIGHTS A SHE-WOLF
(Robert Clouse, 1976)
When a plane full of martial artists (Bruce Lee, Warren Oates, Bo Svenson, Angela Mao) crashes on a hidden Pacific island, the survivors are hunted by the servants of a beautiful psychopathic sex trafficker (Dyanne Thorne).
INTO THE OCTAGON (Peter Yates, 1974)
The widow of an African diplomat convinces a martial artist and a rogue CIA assassin to depose the sadistic dictator who murdered her husband. Bruce Lee, James Coburn, Marlene Clark, Yaphet Kotto, Jill St. John.
THE SHRINE OF ULTIMATE BLISS (Robert Clouse, 1974)
A martial artist (Bruce Lee) infiltrates the sex-trafficking ring that took his sister. He reluctantly joins forces with a brutal Japanese assassin (Sonny Chiba) and a beautiful CIA operative (Pam Grier) to take down the kingpin (George Lazenby).
THE DRAGON FIGHTS A SHE-WOLF
(Robert Clouse, 1976)
Starring Bruce Lee, Dyanne Thorne, Warren Oates, Bo Svenson, Angela Mao, and Marki Bey.
VAMPIRELLA (Jimmy Sangster, 1976)
When the blood ocean of planet Drakulon runs dry, an audacious space vampire (Caroline Munro) travels to earth seeking the outcast remnants of her species. With Anthony Higgins, Freddie Jones, Lynne Frederick, and Peter Cushing as Van Helsing.
CROSSTALK (Bryan Forbes, 1976)
A hip disc jockey courts controversy when his radio show starts receiving telephone calls from an active serial killer. He soon finds himself socially ostracized and stalked by a madman. Starring Roger Moore, Stacy Keach, Caroline Munro.
CAPTAIN KRONOS - WEREWOLF HUNTER (Brian Clemens, 1976)
Countess de Lesseps (Geneviève Page) asks a pair of legendary monster hunters (Horst Janson, Patrick Troughton) to pursue a mythic beast which has savagely murdered scores of women and children in the woods around Averoigne.
A SHADOW STAINED WITH BLOOD (Massimo Cazzioni, 1976)
In the midst of a viral outbreak, a deranged killer disrupts the orgiastic “pandemic party” at an Italian media tycoon’s isolated Mediterranean villa. Bernardino Zapponi’s script was adapted from Poe’s ‘Masque of Red Death.’
BESIEGED (Anna Biller, 1976/2009)
A naive young romance novelist, yearning for love, finds herself caught in a seductive web of murder & betrayal. Lenore Coffee’s screenplay was adapted from Robert Hill’s The Besieged Heart. Sam Elliott, Anna Biller, Dirk Bogarde, Gena Rowlands.
THE HILDEBRAND RARITY (Peter R. Hunt, 1976)
British secret agent James Bond (Duncan Milne) goes undercover as an ichthyologist to infiltrate the Seychelles seastead HQ of a megalomaniacal libertarian billionaire power couple (Franco Nero and Jacqueline Bisset).
APE CANYON (Bill Post, 1976)
A wilderness tracker (Richard Jaeckel) and two national park Rangers (Hunter von Leer, Claudia Jennings) realize that a spate of horrific “grizzly attacks” are actually the work of Bigfoot.
