7 Remarkable 1970s Thrillers That Still Hold Up Today
2. Dont 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 wont 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. Its 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.