night of the lepus (1972)

"...attention! There is a herd of killer rabbits headed this way..."
An American ranch owner Cole Hillman (Rory Calhoun) owns land overrun by rabbits. He calls in zoologist Roy Bennett (Stuart Whitman) to help exterminate them humanly. But as Bennett's form of culling consists of pumping them full of hormones and genetically mutated blood, can it be a surprise when, instead of killing them off the rabbits become bloodthirsty, giant, man munching, killer bunnies.
This takes a while to get going, and actually never quite does, but its transplanting of the 50's giant mutant creature sci-fi genre into the 70's makes for a slightly comical B-movie classic anyway.

just before dawn (1981)

"Get off this land. You've raised the devil."
Five campers arrive in the mountains to examine some property they have bought, but are warned by a local (George Kennedy) not to go up the mountain. Obviously they ignore the warnings, setting up camp in the woods, and start disappearing one by one.
Run of the mill, teen hack and slash horror, but with a few nice touches to keep you interested.

steptoe and son ride again (1973)

"Your habious is about to become very corpus."
Scrap dealers Albert and Harold Steptoe (Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H. Corbett) continue their bickering as Harold looks for way to improve his lot in life. This weeks scheme involves investing his dad's life savings buying a greyhound. When he inevitably looses it all, Harold is forced to come up with another scheme to pay his debts; pretend Albert is dead in order to collect the life insurance.
Unlike the previous film outing, this one sticks closer to the feel of the TV series, and is much the better for it. Plays up the melancholly surrounding the eternally doomed Harold, who hopelessly struggles to achieve a better life.

death note: the last name (2006)

aka Death Note 2. Desu nôto: The last name.
"Only Kira can clean up the world."
The hunt to find who is Kira continues for L (Ken'ichi Matsuyama). Light (Tatsuya Fujiwara) has by now allayed suspicion that he is the killer, and has joined the task force hunting Kira. But L is not so easily convinced, and still believes that Light does not have something to do with the killings. Then the anti gets upped when a Kira II appears on the scene.
The cat and mouse games continue, with added complications. This makes for an entertaining two hour ride.

death note (2006)

aka Desu nôto.
"Whoever's name is written in this notebook will die."
Criminals suddenly start dying for no apparent reason. People believe it to be the work of Kira, an unknown entity. In reality it is the work of Light Yagami (Tatsuya Fujiwara), who has a notebook into which he places the names of people he wants to die. This brings up the sticky subject of the morality of it all. For Yagami is a disallusioned law student, who has seen how the law is powerless to prevent injustice, but is it ever right to become judge and jury? Before Yagami can think about such things the police enlist the help of super detective L to track down Kira the killer.
Based on a manga this is a well contstructed and played out cat and mouse game, that could have been based around Lord Acton's proposition that, 'Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.' The only annoyance is that its really a two part film, and to see the conclusion you need to see Death Note 2.

coffy (1973)

"She's a wild animal! I've got to have that girl."
Coffy (Pam Grier) is a nurse who decides to go undercover as a prostitute for King George (Robert Doqui), as a to take revenge on the drug dealers who got her 11-year-old sister addicted to heroin.
The film that sealed Pam's reputation as the queen of Blacksploitation. An action packed, funk driven ride.