RITUALS (1977)

 

Directed By: Peter Carter  Written By: Ian Sutherland  Cinematography: Rene Verzier  Editor: George Appleby

Cast: Hal Holbrook, Lawrence Dane, Robin Gammell, Ken James, Gary Reineke, Michael Zevon, Jack Crelay, Murray Westgate 

Five doctors go on vacation deep in the Canadian wilderness. After all but one pair of the party's shoes disappear, the remaining shoe camper decides to hike out and go look for help. Soon after he leaves, however, his four companions realize that something is very wrong when someone leaves a decapitated deer head just outside their camp. Even though they still don't have their shoes, they decide to follow their friend's trail out of the woods, but their path is blocked by someone who doesn't want to see them leave the forest alive.

THE SQUEEZE (1977)

Directed By: Michael Apted 

Written By: Leon Griffiths 

Based on the book “Whose Little Girl Are You” by: David Craig aka James Tucker 

Cinematography: Dennis Lewiston 

Editor: John Shirley 

 

Cast: Stacy Keach, David Hemmings, Edward Fox, Stephen Boyd, Carol White, Alan Ford, Freddie Starr 

 

A dangerous, violent gang kidnaps a woman and her daughter to extort some money from her rich husband. He and her down-on-his-luck ex-cop ex-husband decide to deal with the kidnappers themselves. 

 

DEMON SEED (1977)

Directed By: Donald Campbell 
Written By: Robert Jaffe & Roger O. Hirson 
Based On The Novel By: Dean R. Koontz 
Cinematography By: Bill Butler 
Editor: Francisco Mazzola 


Cast: Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver, Gerrit Graham, Barry Kroeger, Lisa Lu 


A scientist creates Proteus--an organic super computer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the creators wife.

LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR (1977)

Written & Directed By: Richard Brooks 
Based On The Novel By: Judith Krasner 
Cinematography By: William A. Fraker 
Editor: George Grenville 

Cast: Daine Keaton, Richard Gere, William Atherton, Tuesday Weld, Richard Kiley, Brian Dennehy, Tom Berenger, LeVar Burton Julius Harris, Richard Bright 


A dedicated schoolteacher spends her nights cruising bars, looking for abusive men with whom she can engage in progressively violent sexual encounters.