I can imagine, in the early '70s, i.e., after the release of Soylent Green (1973), people finding its climax to be what we now call creepypasta. Why only then? It’s quite possible even today.

In 1970, 20 million Americans participated in the first Earth Day. One of the more alarming predictions that day was from Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich, who foresaw a future in which “population ...

Another movie starring Charlton Heston, the 1973 classic Soylent Green is set in 2022 and predicts a world thrown off course by overpopulation, ecological disaster, and resource scarcity. Not a bad ...