Horrors like The Exorcist and crime dramas like Dog Day Afternoon are among the most intense movies of the 1970s, capturing the decade's bleakness.

The war genre in the 1970s became crueler, darker, and angrier, exploring the conflict's contradictions in movies like The Deer Hunter and Catch-22.

With their expertly-crafted practical effects and art direction, these '70s era sci-fi flicks remain just as dazzling today as they did a half century earlier.

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...