1970s Archives - Page 13 of 44

The child preacher turned movie star tried to pull the rug from under evangelical con-men, but no one wanted to listen.

Remembering the glory days of the most ephemeral publications on the market.

The indie director’s two Nature Gone Wild movies are more interesting than people would have you believe.

The notorious on-air suicide of a news anchor has become the stuff of legend, bestowing a pointless posthumous celebrity on its ‘star’.

Forget Rod Stewart vs the Sex Pistols – this was the real battle for chart supremacy in the summer of 1977.

An unexpectedly impressive gothic horror from the makers of Britain’s most daringly explicit softcore 8mm movies.

The rise and fall of the iconic Saturday night horror movie pairings of classic – and not-so-classic – horror movies.

Steven Spielberg’s debut feature, and the Richard Matheson short story that it is based on, remain masterclasses in paranoid terror.

The obscure TV special from Alice Cooper’s lowest point, featuring a strange supporting cast of The Tubes, Nazareth and Sha Na Na.

Matchbox’s pirate action figure range and their iconic glow-in-the-dark ghostly nemesis.

A 1978 promotional TV special for an amusement park starring the young singer is an unexpectedly haunting and weird production.

The most notorious shockumentary of the 1970s gets an unexpected Hollywood makeover.