Manuela Martelli's
1976 (aka Chile '76)
...your car's glovebox is broken into. Was it done by a common criminal or the secret police? These and other incidents show what it's like to live under the grip of a police state in Martelli's chilling paranoid thriller, 1976 (2022).
Carmen (Aline Kuppenheim) is the affluent Santiago housewife vactioning at her beach house in Valparaiso. She agrees to help a local priest (Hugo Medina) care for a wounded dissident (Nicolás Sepúlveda), while the…
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Rabid 1977
"Martial law has come to Montreal."
David Cronenberg's Rabid (1977), with Marilyn Chambers, Frank Moore, Joe Silver, Howard Ryshpan et al, cinematography by René Verzier.
Rose (Marilyn Chambers) undergoes experimental plastic surgery after a fiery motorcycle accident burns much of her upper torso. Unfortunately there are post-surgery complications, and she becomes an immune carrier of an infectious deadly virus, which she spreads by a penile-like appendage, that shoots out of an armpit orifice, which sticks a needle into her victims,…
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The Atrocity Exhibition 1998
Besides David Cronenberg's CRASH, there is Jonathan Weiss' excellent THE ATROCITY EXHIBITION, on which Ballard provided a commentary track and said it was his favorite filmed version of any of his works.
some interesting trivia about Ballard from imdb.com
Trivia
Studied medicine at Cambridge but never practiced; studied English for a year at London University; joined the Royal Air Force.
His novel "Crash" (1973) was rejected by a publishing house reader who wrote, "This author is beyond psychiatric help. Do…
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