Directed by Aldo Lado • 1975 • Italy
Starring Flavio Bucci, Macha Méril, Gianfranco De Grassi
One of the most graphically fiendish films in exploitation history, this controversial shocker follows two teenage girls traveling through Europe by train on Christmas Eve whose journey goes off the rails to become a nightmare of sexual assault, sadistic violence, and revenge. Based on the plots of Ingmar Bergman’s THE VIRGIN SPRING and Wes Craven’s THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, NIGHT TRAIN MURDERS (also released as LAST STOP ON THE NIGHT TRAIN, SECOND HOUSE ON THE LEFT, and THE NEW HOUSE ON THE LEFT) arguably surpasses the disturbing power of its predecessors.
Directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile • 1977 • Italy
Starring Franco Nero, Corinne Cléry, David Hess
While on a cross-country drive, a bitter writer (Franco Nero) and his wife (Corinne Cléry) pick up a stranded motorist (David Hess of THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT infamy). But when this hitcher turn...
Directed by Terrence Malick • 1978 • United States
Starring Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard
One-of-a-kind filmmaker-philosopher Terrence Malick has created some of the most visually arresting films of the twentieth century, and his glorious period tragedy DAYS OF HEAVEN, featuring Oscar-...
Directed by Georges Lautner • 1981 • France
Starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Desailly, Robert Hossein
Jean-Paul Belmondo channels James Bond as Josselin Beaumont, a French secret-service agent who has been dispatched to the fictional African country of Malagawi with instructions to assassinate ...
