1979 wasn't just the end of a decade—it was a cinematic mic drop. The final year of the '70s saw American auteurs at the height of their creative power, international filmmakers rewriting the language ...

Certain movie moments just stick with you for life, and the scene in which a creature bursts out of John Hurt's chest in the film was gory enough to get our stomachs churning—but for the actors on set ...