YEAR-BY-YEAR RANKING: 1977

 

1. HIGH ANXIETY
2. STAR WARS
3. SUSPIRIA
4. OH, GOD!
5. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
6. GRAND THEFT AUTO
7. THE LINCOLN CONSPIRACY
8. THE DRAGON LIVES AGAIN
9. HITLER:  A FILM FROM GERMANY
10. 21 UP
11. ANNIE HALL
12. SPECTRE
13. SLAP SHOT
14. THE HAUNTING OF JULIA
15. A PHOTOGRAPH
16. THE MANY ADVENTURES OF WINNIE THE POOH
17. SWEENEY!
18. THE CYNIC, THE RAT AND THE FIST
19. JULIA
20. ERASERHEAD
21. THE UNCANNY
22. THE HOBBIT
23. BETWEEN THE LINES
24. SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT
25. CAPRICORN ONE
26. KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE
27. INVINCIBLE ARMOUR
28. ORCA
29. CHINATOWN KID
30. ALUCARDA
31. SHOCK
32. COUNT DRACULA
33. SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER
34. THE SPY WHO LOVED ME
35. KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS
36. RABID
37. THE PSYCHIC
38. FOES
39. CANDLESHOE
40. THE STRANGE CASE OF THE END OF CIVILISATION AS WE KNOW IT
41. JESUS OF NAZARETH
42. ARE YOU BEING SERVED?
43. THE CAR
44. IN SEARCH OF NOAH'S ARK
45. PUMPING IRON
46. SHOCK WAVES
47. THE SENTINEL
48. SINBAD AND THE EYE OF THE TIGER
49. JABBERWOCKY
50. THE INCREDIBLE MELTING MAN
51. EMPIRE OF THE ANTS
52. DEAD OF NIGHT
53. NIGHTMARE IN BLOOD
54. THE REAL BRUCE LEE
55. THE MIGHTY PEKING MAN
56. THE CRATER LAKE MONSTER
57. END OF THE WORLD
58. SNOWBEAST
59. THE EXORCIST II:  THE HERETIC