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1978
The Medusa Touch is a 1978 supernatural horror thriller film directed and produced by Jack Gold, adapted by John Briley from the 1973 novel by Peter Van Greenaway. It stars Richard Burton, Lino Ventura, Lee Remick and Harry Andrews, and features Alan Badel, Derek Jacobi, Gordon Jackson, Jeremy Brett and Michael Hordern. The film is a co-production between the United Kingdom and France.
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The popularity of disaster and horror films in the 1970s is often explained by the socio-economic trends which caused great anxiety among the audience, especially the Baby Boomers who were experiencing a serious economic crisis for the first time in their lives. Those trends were even more prevalent in pre-Thatcher Britain, a country widely believed to be in a state of terminal decline. Unsurprisingly, they were ref…More
