Top 10 Movies Of The 1970s

John Carpenter’s 1978 film Halloween epitomizes the slasher films, encompassing the most common themes of this genre, including teenagers making the transition into adulthood by engaging in reckless behavior, a maniac using violence as a teaching tool for the audience, a final survivor girl, and an immortal maniac. (Thesis)

One of the most famous horror films not just of the 1960's but of all

The Godfather is a gangster film that I have view attentively many times over the years, a great American classic. This movie overall has everything from excellent action to great actors. Gangster films are movies that are about organized crime, and often with mob families (Goodykoontz, & Jacobs, 2014). Gangster films a favorite and forever film genre is surprising a subgenre “The gangster film is really a subgenre of the broader genre of crime film” (Goodykoontz, & Jacobs, 2014). The Godfather film did a great job in representing the conventions typical in gangster films, like the audience was able to sympathize with the forces of evil and not the forces of good as the main character Michael Corleone did. The audience can sympathize with

Sylvester Stallone, born to sever poverty, after seeing a heavyweight boxing fight, dreams up the idea for Rocky. The story of an underdog who gets a shot at the title. The conflict not being able to film the story with himself, playing the

My all time favourite movie is 1408. The movie is set largely in one room, a hotel room specifically room 1408. Mike Enslin the man within the room was offered money, expensive alcohol and all the files with the details of the deaths within the room, if he would not spend one night in the room. The beginning of the scary scenes in the movie start with the song “We’ve Only Just Begun” by the Carpenters played on an alarm clock starting at 1:00 and begins to count down. Later in the movie the phone rings at several points and the hotel operator asks “Are you ready to check out Mr. Enslin?” with his death being implied with the terminology “check out”. The final ending of the movie is Mike Enslin setting fire to the hotel room and dying within it. He did this to stop the demon that lived within the room from hurting someone

When someone mentions old school horror most people 's thoughts go to some of the many horror movies from the 70 's and 80 's that are considered greatly as classics; however, does anyone ever think about the true originals from the beginning of the horror genre itself? I have always loved horror so I decided to explore deeper into what the real original classics were like.

Oz on the list of greatest films ever made. Any person of any age can tell you that there is no place like home. We hit on all types of films like Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds and Rear Window. A film that I was really excited to get to was Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather. The God Father showed us the world of gangsters. A world filled with crime, violence, and more importantly, the strength of family. Every time I am trying to get something I want, I make an offer they can’t refuse.

According to American Film Institute’s Top 100 Films the movie Rocky comes in ranked number 57. Rocky is a great film that came out in 1976 and is still a movie that inspires people today. Rocky is about a no name Philadelphia boxer (Sylvester Stallone) who is chosen by the champ Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) to fight him for the world heavyweight championship. After training as hard as he could Rocky the underdog fighter who was supposed to get knocked out in the first round made it through the whole fight. The decision went to the judges and they said that Apollo won even though everyone thought that Rocky was the real winner. Rocky was a movie that had great acting from top to bottom on a low budget movie.

“The Godfather”, written by Mario Puzo in 1969, was adapted into film and directed by Francis Ford Coppola in the 1970s. The story is about an Italian crime family and the struggles they face due to this crime. The movie stars Al Pacino and Marlon Brando, the two playing the youngest son and the father of the family. This film is regarded by many as one of the greatest because it is like reading a book, its dealings with moral issues, and its social impact.

“What’s your favorite scary movie?” is the most well known line in all of the horror film genre which comes from the opening scenes of Scream (1996). The movie Scream is about a series of murders around the one year anniversary of Maureen Prescott’s death, mother of Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell). The killer known as Ghostface is after Sidney Prescott to make her pay for the sins committed by her mother. In the beginning of the film, Ghostface calls Casey ( Drew Barrymore) and one of the questions during their phone call is “What is your favorite scary movie?” Scream is one of the most famous scary movies because of Randy’s (Jammie Kennedy) played by three rules for surviving a horror movie. The rules are (1) never have sex, (2) never do drugs and drink alcohol, and (3) never say “I’ll be right back”. Randy makes the argument that the people murdered are the fornicators, substance users, and

Gore, ghost, and evil is what most people think of when describing horror films. The Shining is a thriller/ psychological horror film from 1980 that focus on a family that moves to an empty hotel for the winter. Creepy twins in a corridor or a mad man running around trying to murder his family is just some spin-chilling events of the film. What makes the shinning a great horror film, and is still well known today, has to be the actors, plot, and effects. Jack Nicholson does a magnificent job playing the role of Jack Torrance (kind of ironic).

Rocky is a 1976 American sports drama film directed by John G. Avildsen and both written by and starring Sylvester Stallone.[2] It tells the rags to riches American Dream story of Rocky Balboa, an uneducated but kind-hearted working class Italian-American boxer working as a debt collector for a loan shark in the slums of Philadelphia. Rocky starts out as a small-time club fighter, and later gets a shot at the world heavyweight championship. The film also stars Talia Shire as Adrian, Burt Young as Adrian's brother Paulie, Burgess Meredith as Rocky's trainer Mickey Goldmill, and Carl Weathers as the champion, Apollo

Just when the masses expect the director to slip out of relevancy, he raises the bar. This film will forever remain a horror classic. It exposes us to our many fears and uncomfortable thoughts. from paranoia, deceit, Insanity, very unsettling and sudden music, dead bodies and a reckless murderer with a knife, and of course our fear of the unexpected. all in a great delivery and a satisfyingly original and clever, non-cliched ending.

The new anthology series is also said to acknowledge several classic horror movies, such as ‘Halloween’ and ‘Friday the 13th.’

The film, The Godfather, was released on March 24, 1972. The time period that the movie was set in was 1945, which was the time period of the Mafia. This film is based around two families fighting throughout the film. One of the main characters, Michael Corleone, changes throughout the movie deciding whether or not he should join in on the family business and take his fathers position (Vito Corleone) as Godfather. As a viewer, I did not enjoy this film due to the darkness and wickedness behind it. Although, many believe it to be one of the greatest movies of all time, in my opinion, the film was not a success.