7 Remarkable 1970s Thrillers That Still Hold Up Today

By James Kirk / July 15, 2013

2. Don€™t Look Now (1973)

Director: Nicholas Roeg Cast: Donald Sutherland, Julie Christi

Donald Sutherland and Julie Christi play a couple whose daughter drowns, and they move to Italy where Sutherland works on restoring an old church. Christi makes an acquaintance of a blind medium who tells her that she is in contact with the deceased child, and Christi believes her. Then things get weird. Really weird. But we won€™t spoil anything for you, will we? The film is shot on location in Venice. But not the picturesque Venice of romance movies. This Venice is dark, corrupted by secrets and a serial killer on the loose. It€™s a labyrinthine maze that serves the film as almost a character as opposed to just a setting. The location shoot lends a stark authenticity the film. The ending is one of the creepiest, most disturbing of any thriller made during the 1970s. It holds up now, forty years later.