Movie Releases by Genre
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Halloween III: Season of the Witch
October 22, 1982
Kids all over America want Silver Shamrock masks for Halloween. Doctor Daniel Challis (Tom Atkins) and Ellie Grimbridge (Stacey Nelkin) seek to uncover a plot by Silver Shamrock owner Conal Cochran (Dan O'Herlihy).
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Stalker
October 20, 1982
A hired guide—the Stalker—leads a writer and a professor into the heart of the Zone, the restricted site of a long-ago disaster, where the three men eventually zero in on the Room, a place rumored to fulfill one’s most deeply held desires.
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Zapped!
September 3, 1982
A high school science nerd gains telekinetic powers after a laboratory accident and uses them for revenge upon bullies.
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Human Highway
September 1, 1982
The new owner of a roadside diner stuck in a town built around an always leaking nuclear power plant plans to torch the place to collect insurance. However, an assortment of bizare characters and weird events (such as spaceships flying around) gets in his way.
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The Secret of NIMH
July 16, 1982
To save her ill son, a field mouse must seek the aid of a colony of rats, with whom she has a deeper link than she ever suspected.
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TRON
July 9, 1982
A computer hacker is abducted into the digital world and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program.
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Blade Runner
June 25, 1982
In a future of high-tech possibility soured by urban and social decay, detective Rick Deckard hunts for fugitive, murderous replicants—and is drawn to a mystery woman whose secrets may undermine his soul. [Warner Bros.]
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The Thing
June 25, 1982
A research facility in Antarctica comes across an alien force that can become anything it touches with 100% accuracy. The members must now find out who's human and who's not before it's too late.
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Megaforce
June 25, 1982
Story about a rapid deployment defense unit that is called into action whenever freedom is threatened.
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E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
June 11, 1982
When an imaginative boy meets a lost alien, it is the beginning of one of cinema's most endearing friendships as Elliot (Henry Thomas) helps the marvelous creature he calls E.T. find his way back home before government agents can capture him.
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
June 4, 1982
With the aide of the Enterprise crew, Admiral Kirk must stop an old nemesis, Khan Noonien Singh, from using the Genesis Device as the ultimate weapon.
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The Road Warrior
May 21, 1982
In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, Max (Mel Gibson), a cynical drifter, agrees to help a small, gasoline-rich community fight a roving band of marauders. Originally titled Mad Max 2.
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Forbidden World
May 7, 1982
In the distant future, a federation marshal arrives at a research lab on a remote planet where a genetic experiment has gotten loose and begins feeding on the dwindling scientific group.
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Silent Rage
April 2, 1982
A sheriff (Chuck Norris) tries to stop the killing spree of a mute maniacal murderer who, as the result of years of medical experimentation, has the ability to self-heal.
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Swamp Thing
February 19, 1982
After a violent incident with an unusual chemical, a research scientist is transformed into a swamp plant monster.
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Modern Problems
December 25, 1981
Jealous, harried air traffic controller Max Fiedler (Chevy Chase), recently dumped by his girlfriend (Patti D'Arbanville), comes into contact with nuclear waste and is granted the power of telekinesis, which he uses not only to win her back, but to gain a little revenge.
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Time Bandits
November 6, 1981
A young boy accidentally joins a band of time traveling dwarves as they jump from era to era looking for treasure to steal.
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Looker
October 30, 1981
Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding success. But when someone starts killing his beautiful patients, Dr. Roberts becomes suspicious and starts investigating. What he uncovers are the mysterious - and perhaps murderous - activities of a high-tech computer company called Digital Matrix.
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Saturday the 14th
October 30, 1981
A family (Richard Benjamin, Paula Prentiss) moves into a house inhabited by spooky creatures and a number of close calls ensue.
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Galaxy of Terror
October 1, 1981
A science fiction suspense thriller, in which a rescue space ship crew meets up with horrors projected by their own imaginations.
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Heavy Metal
August 7, 1981
A glowing green orb - which embodies ultimate evil - terrorizes a young girl with an anthology of bizarre and fantastic stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.
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Escape from New York
July 10, 1981
In 1997, when the U.S. president crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber (Kurt Russell) is sent in to rescue him.
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Superman II
June 19, 1981
A trio of Krypton villains threaten havoc on Earth, while Superman and Lois Lane are just becoming involved in a long awaited love affair -- an affair which may cost Superman his super powers. [Warner Bros.]
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Outland
May 22, 1981
In the distant future, a police marshal stationed at a remote mining colony on the Jupiter moon of Io uncovers a drug-smuggling conspiracy, and gets no help from the populace when he later finds himself marked for murder.
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Scanners
January 14, 1981
Scanners are telepathic and when one (Ironside) seeks to control the world, another (Lack) tries to stop him.
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Altered States
December 25, 1980
A Harvard scientist conducts experiments on himself with a hallucinatory drug and an isolation chamber that may be causing him to regress genetically.
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Flash Gordon
December 5, 1980
Emperor Ming of planet Mongo is bored, and the only thing that seems to appease his ennui is to slowly destroy that celestial trifle known as Earth-- bombarding his new plaything with hailstorms and earthquakes. While Earth’s inhabitants scramble to understand what is happening to their planet, Dr. Hans Zarkov figures out the space coordinates of the origin of attack and commandeers a rocket. But before take-off, he inadvertently kidnaps beautiful New York reporter, Dale Arden, and famed football player, Flash Gordon. Will these mere Earthlings be able to stop the wrath of Emperor Ming? Maybe not, but Flash Gordon is no mere Earthling; he’s a New York Jet.
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The Visitor
November 21, 1980
An intergalactic warrior battles alongside a cosmic Christ figure against a demonic 8-year-old girl and her pet hawk, as the fate of the universe hangs in the balance. [Drafthouse Films]
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The Apple
November 21, 1980
In 1994, a young couple enters the world of the music industry, and subsequently the world of drugs.
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Alligator
November 14, 1980
A baby alligator is flushed down a Chicago toilet and survives by eating discarded laboratory rats injected with growth hormones. The small reptile grows gigantic, escapes the city sewers, and goes on a rampage.
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Battle Beyond the Stars
September 8, 1980
A young farmer sets out to recruit mercenaries to defend his peaceful planet, which is under threat of invasion by the evil tyrant Sador and his armada of aggressors.
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The Final Countdown
August 1, 1980
A modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to 1941 near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Cheech and Chong's Next Movie
July 18, 1980
The two perpetually stoned musicians and their friends go through another series of misadventures.
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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
May 21, 1980
Three years after the events of Star Wars, Imperial forces continue to pursue the Rebels. After the Rebellion?s defeat on the ice planet Hoth, Luke journeys to the planet Dagobah to train with Jedi Master Yoda, who has lived in hiding since the fall of the Republic. In an attempt to convert Luke to the dark side, Darth Vader lures young Skywalker into a trap in the Cloud City of Bespin. In the midst of a fierce lightsaber duel with the Sith Lord, Luke faces a startling revelation. [20th Century Fox]
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Humanoids from the Deep
May 16, 1980
Scientific experiments backfire and produce horrific mutations: half man, half fish, which terrorize a small fishing village by killing the men and raping the women.
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The Nude Bomb
May 9, 1980
Maxwell Smart is recalled to duty to help fight a villian who threatens to detonate a weapon that destroys clothing.
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Saturn 3
February 15, 1980
Two lovers stationed at a remote base in the asteroid fields of Saturn are intruded upon by a retentive technocrat from Earth and his charge: a malevolent eight foot robot.
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The Black Hole
December 21, 1979
The U.S.S. Cygnus is perched precariously at the edge of a black hole – the vast, empty nothingness where space and time end. Anything that crosses its border enters a universe of the complete unknown. A story of robots and humanoids, human genius and madness, and a spectacular descent into nature's ultimate mystery – The Black Hole. [Disney]
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture
December 7, 1979
When a destructive space entity is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral Kirk resumes command of the Starship Enterprise in order to intercept, examine and hopefully stop it.
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Meteor
October 19, 1979
The U.S. must join forces with the U.S.S.R. in order to destroy a gigantic asteroid heading straight for Earth.
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Time After Time
September 28, 1979
H.G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper to the 20th Century when the serial murderer uses the future writer's time machine to escape his time period.
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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
September 20, 1979
A 20th-century astronaut emerges out of 500 years of suspended animation into a future time to become Earth's greatest hero.
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Unidentified Flying Oddball
July 26, 1979
[Also known as "A Spaceman in King Arthur’s Court"] Astronaut Tom Trimble and his robot companion are unexpectedly hurled backward in time during a routine space flight and end up prisoners at the Court of King Arthur in sixth-century England. Adding to Tom's plight is his discovery of a sinister plot to overthrow the King, with the outcome resting on the flash-and-dazzle of the equipment at hand – from the 20th century. [Disney]
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Moonraker
June 29, 1979
James Bond, Agent 007, investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle and discovers a plot to commit global genocide.
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Alien
June 22, 1979
For the first time in nearly a quarter-century, Alien returns to the big screen with a digitally remastered special edition of director Ridley Scott's science fiction/horror classic. [Fox]
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Prophecy
June 15, 1979
A log company's waste mutates the environment, creating a giant killer bear-monster.
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Phantasm
June 1, 1979
A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber known only as the Tall Man, who keeps a mysterious arsenal of terrible weapons with him.
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The Brood
May 25, 1979
A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, amidst a series of brutal murders.
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
December 22, 1978
In San Francisco, a group of people discover the human race is being replaced one by one with clones devoid of emotion.
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Superman
December 15, 1978
An adventure re-told, spanning the Man of Steel's life from his Krypton infancy and Midwest boyhood to his career as Daily Planet reporter Clark Kent and through his titanic struggle with archnemesis Lex Luthor. [Warner Bros.]
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Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!
October 8, 1978
A group of scientists band together to save the world from mutated killer tomatoes.
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Battlestar Galactica
September 17, 1978
After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind, the last major fighter carrier leads a makeshift fugitive fleet on a desperate search for the legendary planet Earth.
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Piranha
August 3, 1978
When flesh-eating piranhas are inadvertently released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.
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The Cat from Outer Space
June 9, 1978
Three scientists help an Alien feline, stranded on Earth, to repair its damaged spacecraft in order to return home but their efforts are hampered by inept army officials and foreign spies.
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The Manitou
April 28, 1978
A psychic's girlfriend finds out that a lump on her back is a growing reincarnation of a 400 year-old demonic Native American spirit.
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The Medusa Touch
April 14, 1978
Psychological thriller about a telekinetic novelist who causes disasters simply by thinking about them.
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Deathsport
April 1, 1978
Futuristic Science Fiction about a sport to the death, using "destructocycles".
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Return from Witch Mountain
March 10, 1978
The entire city of Los Angeles teeters on the brink of nuclear disaster when the greedy criminals manipulate a young boy's supernatural powers for their own devious gain. But the youth's sister and a streetwise band of truants join forces in a desperate attempt to save the city from destruction.
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The Fury
March 10, 1978
A former CIA agent uses the talents of a young psychic to help retrieve his telekinetic son from terrorists, who want to use his mental powers for evil.
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
November 16, 1977
Power repairman Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) has an extraordinary encounter with a strange spacecraft while out on a call. Recurring visions of a mountain fuel an increasing obsession that drives him to an emotional breaking point. Desperate to understand what he has experienced, he finds an ally in Jillian (Melinda Dillon), a single mother who believes her son has been abducted by the aliens. Meanwhile an international group of scientists led by French expert Claude Lacombe (Francois Truffaut) search for a breakthrough in human-alien communication. Their collective quest culminates in a remote Wyoming rendezvous and an event of unequalled importance in all of human history. [Sony Pictures]
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Damnation Alley
October 21, 1977
In a post-apocalyptic world, a group of survivors travel and find other settlements in huge custom designed all terrain vehicles.
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The People That Time Forgot
July 6, 1977
In 1919, a British expedition in the Antarctica region is searching for a lost American explorer and finds a hidden prehistoric world instead.
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Empire of the Ants
July 1, 1977
Con artist Marilyn Fryser tries to sell bogus real estate deals in an area overrun by giant ants.
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Tentacles
June 15, 1977
A mutated giant octopus wreaks havoc on a California seaside community.
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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
May 25, 1977
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) is held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to quell the rebellion against the Galactic Empire. Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and Captain Han Solo (Harrison Ford) team together with the lovable droid duo, R2-D2 and C-3PO, to rescue the beautiful princess and restore justice in the galaxy. [20th Century Fox]
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Demon Seed
April 15, 1977
A scientist creates Proteus--an organic super computer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the creators wife.
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Rabid
April 8, 1977
A young woman develops a taste for human blood after experimental plastic surgery, and her victims turn into blood-thirsty zombies, leading into a city-wide epidemic.
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God Told Me To
October 22, 1976
A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random New Yorkers who claim that "God told them to."
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Solaris (1972)
October 6, 1976
Based on Stanislaw Lem's novel, this 1972 allegory takes place on a space station near a mysterious planet.
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At the Earth's Core
September 1, 1976
A Victorian era scientist and his assistant take a test run in their Iron Mole drilling machine and end up in a strange underground labyrinth ruled by a species of giant telepathic bird and full of prehistoric monsters and cavemen.
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Futureworld
August 13, 1976
Upon uncovering the dirty secret of futuristic theme-park Futureworld, an ex-employee is killed after he tips off two other reporters who decide to do an undercover investigation.
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Shivers
July 6, 1976
The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out to infect others by the slightest sexual contact.
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Logan's Run
June 23, 1976
Live it up today, your time is up tomorrow. In the Year of the City 2274, humans forsake the ravaged outer environment by living in a vast, bubbled metropolis. There, computerized servo-mechanisms provide all needs and everyone can pursue endless hedonism. Endless, that is, until Lastday. That's when anyone who's 30 must submit to Carrousel, a soaring, spinning trip to eternity and supposed rebirth.
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The Food of the Gods
June 18, 1976
A group of friends travel to a remote Canadian island to hunt, only to be attacked by giant killer animals which have populated the place.
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The Man Who Fell to Earth
May 28, 1976
The Man Who Fell to Earth is a daring exploration of science fiction as an art form. The story of an alien on an elaborate rescue mission provides the launching pad for Nicolas Roeg’s visual tour de force, a formally adventurous examination of alienation in contemporary life. Rock legend David Bowie, in his acting debut, completely embodies the title role, while Candy Clark, Buck Henry, and Rip Torn turn in pitch-perfect supporting performances. The film’s hallucinatory vision was obscured in the American theatrical release, which deleted nearly twenty minutes of crucial scenes and details. [The Criterion Collection]
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A Boy and His Dog
November 14, 1975
A young man and his telepathic dog wander a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
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Rollerball
June 25, 1975
In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy those who want him out of the game.
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Bug
June 6, 1975
An earthquake releases a strain of mutant cockroaches with the ability to start fires, which proceed to cause destructive chaos in a small town. The studies carried out by scientist James Parmiter, however, reveal an intent with much more far-reaching consequences.
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Death Race 2000
April 27, 1975
In a dystopian future, a cross country car race compels contestants to run down innocent pedestrians to earn points that are tallied based on each kill's brutality.
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Escape to Witch Mountain
March 21, 1975
Two young orphans with psychic powers prompts evil millionaire Aristotle Bolt to lure them to his mansion to exploit their powers. While escaping, they meet a friendly camper and begin to unravel the mystery of their origin. Soon, all three are fleeing townspeople who have branded the children witches ... but then IT happens!
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The Stepford Wives
February 12, 1975
Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.
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The Strongest Man in the World
February 6, 1975
Dexter Riley and his friends accidently discover a new chemical mixed with a cereal seems to give anyone temporary superhuman strength
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Phase IV
September 1, 1974
Desert ants suddenly form a collective intelligence and begin to wage war on the inhabitants. It is up to two scientists and a stray girl they rescue from the ants to destroy them.
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The Terminal Man
June 19, 1974
Hoping to cure his violent seizures, a man agrees to a series of experimental microcomputers inserted into his brain but inadvertently discovers that violence now triggers a pleasurable response his brain.
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Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
May 2, 1974
Baron Frankenstein works with a mental patient to reanimate the dead.
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Dark Star
April 1, 1974
In the far reaches of space, a small crew, 20 years into their solitary mission, find things beginning to go hilariously wrong.
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Zardoz
February 6, 1974
In the distant future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.
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The Day of the Dolphin
December 19, 1973
A marine biologist teaches his dolphins to communicate in English but shady characters plan to kidnap the trained mammals for a more sinister purpose.
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Sleeper
December 17, 1973
A nerdish store owner is revived out of cryostasis into a future world to fight an oppressive government.
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Fantastic Planet
December 1, 1973
On a faraway planet where blue giants rule, oppressed humanoids rebel against their machine-like leaders.
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Horror Express
December 1, 1973
In 1906, in China, a British anthropologist discovers a frozen prehistoric creature and must transport it to Europe by train.
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Stereo (Tile 3B of a CAEE Educational Mosaic)
November 30, 1973
Sometime in the future, the Canadian Academy for Erotic Inquiry is investigating the theories of parapsychologist Luther Stringfellow. Seven young adults volunteer to submit to a form of brain surgery that removes their power of speech but increases their power for telepathic communication. An unseen group of students observes the results. As the experiment progresses, Stringfellow's theories come to fruition. Later, aphrodisiacs and various other drugs are introduced to the subjects to expose an inherent polymorphous perversity. (SPOILER ALERT!) In the end, they are isolated from each other, provoking antagonism and violence between them, which results in two suicides.
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Westworld
November 21, 1973
For $1,000 a day, vacationers can indulge whims at the theme park called Westworld. They can bust up a bar or bust out of jail, drop in on a brothel or get the drop on a gunslinger. It's all safe: the park's lifelike androids are programmed never to harm the customers. But not all droids are getting with the program. [Warner Bros.]
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Sssssss
July 1, 1973
A college student becomes lab assistant to a scientist who is working on a serum that can transform humans into snakes.
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Battle for the Planet of the Apes
June 15, 1973
Ten years after conquering the Earth, ape leader Caesar wants the ruling apes and enslaved humans to live in peace. But warring factions of apes led by a militant gorilla general as well as various human groups threaten the stability.
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Soylent Green
May 9, 1973
In the world ravaged by the greenhouse effect and overpopulation, an NYPD detective investigates the murder of a big company CEO.
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The Crazies
March 16, 1973
The military attempts to contain a manmade combat virus that causes death and permanent insanity in those infected, as it overtakes a small Pennsylvania town.
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Asylum
November 17, 1972
A young psychiatrist interviews four inmates in a mental asylum to satisfy a requirement for employment. He hears stories about 1) the revenge of a murdered wife, 2) a tailor who makes a suit with some highly unusual qualities, 3) a woman who questions her sanity when it appears that her brother is conspiring against her, and 4) a man who builds tiny toy robots with lifelike human heads.
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Night of the Lepus
October 4, 1972
Giant mutant rabbits terrorize the south-west.
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Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
June 30, 1972
In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, Caesar, the son of the late simians Cornelius and Zira, surfaces after almost twenty years of hiding out from the authorities, and prepares for a slave revolt against humanity.
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