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They’re Coming! The Seventies Paranoia Of Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
The 1978 collision of science fiction, body horror and conspiracy thriller is as potent an experience now as it ever was.
Mind Games: Brandon Cronenberg’s Possessor
The second feature film from Cronenberg Minor is an ambitious, challenging and flawed study of the battle to hold on to who we are.
Splendid Isolation – The Ghosts And Mysteries Of A Reckoning
The great lost film of modern British cinema emerges into the light.
Go Ape! The Planet of the Apes Books And Comics Of The 1970s
From novelisations to Marvel Comics to Power Records, the publications that fed the relentless Ape Fever of the Seventies.
The Flash Gordon Novels Of The 1970s
The series of novels based around the legendary comic strip sci-fi hero Flash Gordon that appeared – with very different covers – in the US and UK during the Seventies.
The Boy From Space: BBC Juvenile Science Fiction
The vintage children’s TV science fiction show from the 1970s.
The Alien Action Figure From 1979
The controversial action figure from an adults-only horror movie that was pitched at kids during the Star Wars toy boom.
The Pulp Fiction Of The Mysterious Jack Kahler
Exploring a little-known author of sleazy 1960s paperback cheap thrills.
The Emptiness Of Violence And Rollerball Murder
The classic science fiction film is more than just a collection of nihilistic sport and slaughter sequences.