Now that you are sole heir to our world, you will have every opportunity to achieve wickedness

GAS! -OR- IT BECAME NECESSARY TO DESTROY THE WORLD IN ORDER TO SAVE IT.

aka Gas-s-s-s

1970

Directed by Roger Corman

Written by George Armitage and Roger Corman

Spoilers: moderate

Chimpan-A to Chimpan-Z: Almighty bomb

BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES

1970

Directed by Ted Post

Written by Paul Dehn and Mort Abrahams

Spoilers: severe

The ecstasy of gold

KELLY'S HEROES

1970

Directed by Brian G. Hutton

Written by Troy Kennedy Martin

Spoilers: moderate

American Gothic Week: For every sound that floats from the rust within their throats is a groan

CRY OF THE BANSHEE

1970

Directed by Gordon Hessler

Written by Tim Kelly and Christopher Wicking

Spoilers: moderate

American Gothic Week: Help! I'm being disorientated!

SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN

1970

Directed by Gordon Hessler

Written by Milton Subotsky and Christopher Wicking (based on the novel The Disorientated Man by Steven V. Francis and W. Howard Baker d/b/a "Peter Saxon")

Spoilers: moderate

American Gothic Week: Of Their semblance no man may know, saving only in the features They have begotten on mankind; and of those there are many sorts, differing in likeness from man's truest eidolon to that shape without sight or substance which is Them

THE DUNWICH HORROR

1970

Directed by Daniel Haller

Written by Curtis Hanson, Henry Rosenbaum, and Ronald Silkosky (based on the short story by H.P. Lovecraft)

Spoilers: maybe kind of high?

Sleeping, yes, but only a rather ordinary 5'10"

TORA! TORA! TORA!

Directed by Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda, and Kinji Fukasaku

Written by Larry Forrester, Hideo Oguni, Ryuzo Kikushima, and Akira Kurosawa

Spoilers: eventually, we won

This is the voice of world control

COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT

1970

Directed by Joseph Sargent

Written by James Bridges (based on the novel Colossus by Dennis Feltham Jones)

Spoiler alert: high

What a disaster: The sudden decompression at 30,000 feet is something you gotta see to believe

AIRPORT

1970

Written and directed by George Seaton (based on the novel by Arthur Hailey)

Spoiler alert: moderate

Walt Disney, part XXV: Catnap

THE ARISTOCATS

1970

Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman

Spoiler alert: moderate

We've been eating Gamera, part VI: Whistle while you DIE

Gamera isn't the most important, or the most influential, or the most popular Japanese monster.  That just means the Guardian of the Universe may have to content himself with simply being the best.  This series of reviews is dedicated to my very favorite turtle.

GAMERA VS. JIGER
(Gamera Tai Daimaju Jaiga)

And here we are, at the beginning of the end.  Luckily it begins again in 1995, but we have some miles to go before we sleep.  On the plus (?) side, this is the one where Gamera gets raped.

1970
Directed by Noriaki Yuasa
Written by Nisan Takahashi
With Umenosuke Izumi (Gamera), Tsutomo Takakuwa (Hiroshi), Kelly Varis (Christopher), and Kon Omura (Dad)

Spoiler alert: severe