This was John Travolta’s film debut, but his limited role is as a hooded cult follower. The Devil’s Rain features Corbis (Ernest Borgnine) hunting a Midwest family as he searches for “The Book,” an ancient tome stolen centuries ago containing the names of the devil cult’s disciples written in their own blood.

As he turns the family one by one into dead-eyed soldiers for Satan, surviving son Tom Skerrit struggles to free them and keep the tome out of Corbis’s hands. The film is filled with arresting images of the black-eyed zombies wandering through a desert ghost town, gripping horror and other strong visual effects. The cast (including a stiff William Shatner and a tired Ida Lupino) is more solemn than spirited.

Only Borgnine sinks his teeth into his role, preaching the word of the devil with gusto and theatrical flourish and transforming into a horned demon in a blood ceremony that builds to a dynamic climax.

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Gabe Kotter, formerly a Sweathog, returns to James Buchanan High as a teacher. He’s assigned the remedial class, teaching the same type of outcasts that he himself once was: Students unable or unwilling to be in a normal classroom. The four main students are Vinnie Barbarino, Freddie “Boom-Boom” Washington, Juan Luis Pedro Phillipo de Huevos Epstein, and Arnold Dingfelder Horshack.

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Based on a novel by Stephen King, Carrie is in turn humorous, scary and heart rending. It is now recognized as a classic and has spawned many teen horror imitations. High school girls played by Amy Irving (in her film debut), P.J. Soles, and Nancy Allen seek to get vengeance on fellow student and telekinetic Carrie White (Sissy Spacek), after they get in trouble for tormenting her. Piper Laurie plays Carrie’s mom and does a magnificent job. John Travolta shines as one of the girls’ beer-guzzling boyfriends.

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Tod Lubitch is a normal teenage boy in every way but one. He was born without an active immune system. As a result, he must spend his life inside a plastic bubble that keeps away all germs, but also isolates him from other people. Over the years, Tod adapts to this often lonely existence with the help of his loving parents. After he becomes romantically attracted to the girl next door, however, he struggles to find a way to be with her.

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Directed by John Badham

Starring John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney

Tony is an uneducated Brooklyn teenager. The highlight of his week is going to the local disco, where he is the king of the dance floor. Tony meets Stephanie at the disco and they agree to dance together in a competition. Stephanie resists Tony’s attempts to romance her, as she aspires to greater things; she is moving across the river to Manhattan. Gradually, Tony also becomes disillusioned with the life he is leading and he and Stephanie decide to help one another to start afresh.

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Directed by Randal Kleiser

Starring John Travolta, Olivia Newton John, Stockard Channing

Sandy Olsen is a goody two shoes from Austrailia, Danny Zuko is the head T-Bird from Rydell High. However when the two meet up during the summer, they fall in love. But when the summer ends, the two think they’ll never see each other again. However, they’re both wrong. Sandy and her parents have moved to America and she is now attending Danny’s school. When the two discover that they attend the same school, there is a lot of debate over whether they can still be together since it’s uncool for Danny to be in love with a goody goody like Sandy. However the two, against all odds, manage to stay together. Then graduation comes and Sandy is about to change in a way no one expected.

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