Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)

Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)

[3] Linda Blair's still got demons, and Richard Burton's trying to figure out what happened to the nice priests who got pea soup all over them in the first movie. Exorcist II: The Heretic is convoluted and esoteric, the action is minimal,…
Soldier of Orange (1977)

Soldier of Orange (1977)

[7] Paul Verhoeven (RoboCop, Turkish Delight) draws upon his memories growing up in 1940s war-torn Holland for this adaptation of Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema' autobiography. When the Nazi's occupied the Netherlands, Roelfzema and several classmates left college to join the resistance. Soldier of Orange…
The Deep (1977)

The Deep (1977)

[5] Nick Nolte and Jacqueline Bisset play deep sea divers who stumble upon a sunken supply of morphine and Spanish treasure. They enlist the help of Robert Shaw (in one of his final performances) to excavate their findings, all while fighting off…
Capricorn One (1977)

Capricorn One (1977)

[4] Inspired by conspiracy theories that the moon landing was a hoax, Capricorn One depicts a fictitious manned trip to Mars. Hal Holbrook gives a face to the evil government who forces astronauts James Brolin, Sam Waterston, and O.J. Simpson to play…
Kill and Go Hide (The Child) (1977)

Kill and Go Hide (The Child) (1977)

[3] A young housekeeper learns that her boss's daughter is instructing zombies from a nearby graveyard to kill at her command. There are some neat moments and ideas in this mess of a movie, scenes where the housekeeper dreams she is dancing…
The Incredible Melting Man (1977)

The Incredible Melting Man (1977)

[4] This 'bad in a good way' sci-fi/horror flick features a melting astronaut who must feed on human flesh to keep from becoming a puddle of goo. I'm all for melting people, but The Incredible Melting Man is too narrow in scope.…
The Rescuers (1977)

The Rescuers (1977)

[7] Bob Newhart and Eva Gabor provide the voices of two brave mice who volunteer to rescue a kidnapped orphan in this surprisingly dark and scary offering from Disney's animation department. I love the atmosphere this movie creates, especially around a wrecked…
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)

Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)

[4] In this Sinbad adventure, the famed sailor is trying to wed a princess (imagine that), but can't get her brother's blessing until he reverses an evil spell that turned the brother into a baboon. The story isn't much, but at least…
The Gauntlet (1977)

The Gauntlet (1977)

[8] Clint Eastwood and Sondra Locke's romantic but combative relationship fuels this road-trip action/adventure also directed by Eastwood. He's a cop trying to transfer her from one jail to another, but both the mob and the cops want her dead, and no…
High Anxiety (1977)

High Anxiety (1977)

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Mel Brooks sends up Alfred Hitchcock in High Anxiety, a spoof centered around a psychiatrist who uncovers shenanigans at ‘The Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, VERY Nervous’.  Brooks plays the shrink, a man who must cope with his own ‘high anxiety’ while getting to the bottom of a murder mystery before the Institute’s nefarious head nurse and former administrator order him killed! Cloris Leachman and Harvey Korman are stand-outs as the villains. In one scene, you see the hunch-backed, mustached Leachman don a Nazi uniform when she lashes the bound Korman during a clandestine S&M session.