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To get Goodyear to a more habitable spot, since a bare hand burns up like a vampire in the 140-degree sunlight without a protective suit, the three set off in a jacked-up RV reminiscent of the one Jan-Michael Vincent tooled around in in “Damnation Alley” (1977).
Dewey is merely on-hand to help Finch forage for supplies, since the warm, comforting smile of America’s Dad suggests there’s nothing truly terrifying lurking in the dark; no Omega Man light-averse mutants or giant scorpions from 1977’s Damnation Alley that’ll require Hanks to throw haymakers, pick up a flamethrower or fire the pistol he flashes in one brief shot, suggesting that even Checkov’s Gun didn’t survive the apocalypse.
Essentially a bizarre cross between the two notable 70s-era post-apocalyptic sagas "A Boy and His Dog" and "Damnation Alley"--minus the various weird and grisly elements that cropped up in those projects---"Finch" wants to come across as both a profoundly moving testament to the enduring power of humanity under the most trying of circumstances and as a tour-de-force performance for Hanks in a film that, save for the dog and the CGI robot, is basically a solo gig throughout.
The “Zero Hour” crisis situation (how to get the airplane down) was also borrowed for the terrible “ Airport 1975 ,” in which Karen Black played a stewardess who tried to follow instructions radioed from the ground.
It feels, at times, like the actor sat down and watched “Harper’’ (1966), the sleepy LA noir in which Paul Newman played detective Lew Harper, a character based on Ross Macdonald’s Lew Archer.
Splice (2010)
Directed by Vincenzo Natali
influenced by Frankenstein: The True Story (1974)
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In the TV mini-series Frankenstein: The True Story (1973), writer Christopher Isherwood was one of the first authors to suggest that if a human scientist tried to create augmented life, the creature might turn out to be handsome rather than horrific - visually, if not morally.
Frankenstein (2025)
Directed by Guillermo del Toro
influenced by Frankenstein: The True Story (1974)
There’s Michael Sarrazin in Frankenstein: The True Story (before he starts to rot), and perhaps Srdjan Zelenovic in Flesh for Frankenstein, and that’s about it … until Jacob Elordi in Guillermo del Toro’s disappointing new Frankenstein.
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
influenced by The Illustrated Man (1969)
From the cars, to the clothes, to the hairstyles, to the home décor—everything is perfectly, lovingly in place, and Tarantino packs the film with references to movies and television and music both familiar and obscure (marquees and posters and billboards in the background remind us of the existence of movies such as The Night They Raided Minsky’s, The Illustrated Man, Ice Station Zebra, Candy, and 3 in the Attic).
Each of these folks gets a mini-narrative — Weathers only feels alive on a mountain peak, but he’s promised wife Peach ( Robin Wright ) that this is his last one; mailman Doug got close to the summit last year and is determined to go all the way; Yasuko has climbed six of the seven summits of Everest and wants a clean sweep – not unlike the all-star cast of something like “Airport 1975.”
His ability to take on Kevin’s different guises, often from one frame to the next, is a virtuoso achievement—not great acting, perhaps (any more than Rod Steiger’s impersonations in “No Way to Treat a Lady” constituted great acting), but enormous fun to watch.
Just over 40 years ago, California got rocked to the ground in "Earthquake," part of a disaster-film epidemic in 1974 that included "The Towering Inferno" and "Airport 1975."
Suspiria, about an American ballet student, Suzy Bannion (Jessica Harper), who transfers to a prestigious dance academy in Germany, only to find out that the academy is not what it seems, is the first of Argento’s Le Tre madri ( The Three Mothers ) Trilogy, which is rounded off by Inferno (1980( and La Terza madre ( The Mother of Tears , 2007), literally translating in English to “the third mother.”
On British television in 1973, a beautiful creature rotted before our eyes in FRANKENSTEIN: THE TRUE STORY. (BTW…it was not.)
Growing up in the 1970s meant a constant stream of them, from every increasingly goofy entry in the "Airport" franchise and "The Towering Inferno" to B-level crap like "Meteor" or "Damnation Alley."