5 Underappreciated 70s Sci-Fi Movies

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When it comes to the sci-fi movie genre, it's not out of the realm of possibility to say that the 1970s was the absolute best decade. Certainly these days, the special effects are better than they were back in the day, but it's hard to argue the movies that come out these days are leaving bigger footprints. Films like the Star Wars movie that started it all and Mad Max, Alien and A Clockwork Orange were all released in the 1970s.

While those big sci-fi films were all launched in the same decade, there are some other ones that obviously didn't make the kind of money they did or didn't get the same kind of audience, but they were still very, very good. Some of them told stories that have resonated for decades. Some were so good that Hollywood felt the need to tell their stories again with updated stars and special effects. Whatever the reason, there are some science-fiction films from the 1970s that are definitely underappreciated.

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The Omega Man is actually the second movie based on Richard Matheson's novel, I Am Legend to hit theaters. This particular version of the story starred Charlton Heston as Dr. Robert Neville. In this version of the story, the year is 1975 and the United States and Russian armies are facing off in a full-scale war. At some point, one of the armies released a biological weapon that turned into a plague that wiped out most of the world. Those that survived the plague were transformed into albino mutants who were sensitive to sunlight.

After Neville injected himself with a vaccine that allowed him to avoid catching the disease, he was chased by a group of the mutants, who also happened to be Luddites. The movie told several morality tales about that era and