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The Best (or worst) Of Roger Corman
a year ago
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"Si quid per iocum dixi, nolito in serium convertere."
("If I have said anything in jest, do not turn it into a serious thing.") -Plautus
"Si quid per iocum dixi, nolito in serium convertere."
("If I have said anything in jest, do not turn it into a serious thing.") -Plautus
Here's to Roger Corman, the Man who inspired quite a few pics of mine, and provided hours of entertainment with his Monster Movies. While his movies are far from "Oscar Material", he did launch the careers of many A-Listers including Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hooper, Sylvester Stallone, Robert Englund and directors Francis Ford Coppola, and James Cameron. And featured such Horror Legends as Lon Cheney Jr., Boris Karloff, Vincent Price (a frequent star), & Peter Lorre. He made more than 300 movies (most in less than 2 weeks time, and under budget.). Here's a list of some of them:
The Little Shop of Horrors (1960): The NON-MUSICAL original version. Jack Nicholson at the beginning of his career, but in classic form as a machocistic dental patient. Best scene of the whole movie!
Creature From the Haunted Sea: I didn't think there was a movie worse than "Plan 9 From Outer Space." The "creature" looks like a cross between a seaweed covered turd and a sock monkey. Don't believe me? Go see it for yourself!
Galaxy of Terror: Yes, the movie with THAT SCENE!!!!
Rock & Roll High School: Starring The Ramones! 'Nuf Said!
Battle Beyond the Stars: "Star Wars" rip-off, or "The Seven Samurai in Space?" You decide. (Hey wait a minute!.... THAT SHIP HAS TITTIES!?!?!)
Death Race 2000 (1978): A not-so-buff Sylvester Stallone gets his ass kicked by David "Kwai Chang Caine" Carradine! This movie spawned an infamous, highly controversial (in its day) video game, that seems practically "G-rated" by today's standards. (Corman executive produced the 2008 remake as well.)
Death Sport: David Carradine, and motor cycles that sound like TIE fighters, and are more explosive than a Pinto.
The Raven: Karloff! Price! Lorre! (and some young guy named Jack Nicholson) together in this Poe-inspired Horror-comedy.
The Edgar Allan Poe movies he made for American International Pictures, of which some of them were really based on HP Lovecraft stories.
Spider Baby: Lon Cheny Jr. stars & sings the beatnik theme to this movie. (Though one scene does seem to be a little too "borderline 'statutory.")
The Terror: Another Jack Nick/Karloff film. I remember seeing the ending of this movie a very long time ago (spoiler alert: it involves a really gooey/melty decomposition). It really stuck with me, but I didn't know what movie was called until I saw this, and there was that ending, exactly as I remebered it. I finally, after decades, got my answer. Francis Ford Coppola co-directed this one. It was made at the same time as "The Raven," in 10 days. (This is the reason why Corman was a producton genius: he often reused the same sets, props, and actors to cut down on costs and production time.)
The Dunwich Horror: Probably the movie that turned the Lovecraft Mythos from horror, to "nubile young lovlies getting raped by extradimentional horrors."
Bloody Mama: Not a horror movie, but a bio-pic of the infamous Ma Barker and her murderous bank-robbing brood. Starring Shelly Winters.
All the movies appear on Turner Classic Movies (mostly during Halloween), and are availiable on DVD & Blue Ray.
Roger Corman: 1926-2024
Legendary "Cult-Movie" Writer, Producer, Director. Horror Icon.
"King of the B-Movies"
The Little Shop of Horrors (1960): The NON-MUSICAL original version. Jack Nicholson at the beginning of his career, but in classic form as a machocistic dental patient. Best scene of the whole movie!
Creature From the Haunted Sea: I didn't think there was a movie worse than "Plan 9 From Outer Space." The "creature" looks like a cross between a seaweed covered turd and a sock monkey. Don't believe me? Go see it for yourself!
Galaxy of Terror: Yes, the movie with THAT SCENE!!!!
Rock & Roll High School: Starring The Ramones! 'Nuf Said!
Battle Beyond the Stars: "Star Wars" rip-off, or "The Seven Samurai in Space?" You decide. (Hey wait a minute!.... THAT SHIP HAS TITTIES!?!?!)
Death Race 2000 (1978): A not-so-buff Sylvester Stallone gets his ass kicked by David "Kwai Chang Caine" Carradine! This movie spawned an infamous, highly controversial (in its day) video game, that seems practically "G-rated" by today's standards. (Corman executive produced the 2008 remake as well.)
Death Sport: David Carradine, and motor cycles that sound like TIE fighters, and are more explosive than a Pinto.
The Raven: Karloff! Price! Lorre! (and some young guy named Jack Nicholson) together in this Poe-inspired Horror-comedy.
The Edgar Allan Poe movies he made for American International Pictures, of which some of them were really based on HP Lovecraft stories.
Spider Baby: Lon Cheny Jr. stars & sings the beatnik theme to this movie. (Though one scene does seem to be a little too "borderline 'statutory.")
The Terror: Another Jack Nick/Karloff film. I remember seeing the ending of this movie a very long time ago (spoiler alert: it involves a really gooey/melty decomposition). It really stuck with me, but I didn't know what movie was called until I saw this, and there was that ending, exactly as I remebered it. I finally, after decades, got my answer. Francis Ford Coppola co-directed this one. It was made at the same time as "The Raven," in 10 days. (This is the reason why Corman was a producton genius: he often reused the same sets, props, and actors to cut down on costs and production time.)
The Dunwich Horror: Probably the movie that turned the Lovecraft Mythos from horror, to "nubile young lovlies getting raped by extradimentional horrors."
Bloody Mama: Not a horror movie, but a bio-pic of the infamous Ma Barker and her murderous bank-robbing brood. Starring Shelly Winters.
All the movies appear on Turner Classic Movies (mostly during Halloween), and are availiable on DVD & Blue Ray.
Roger Corman: 1926-2024
Legendary "Cult-Movie" Writer, Producer, Director. Horror Icon.
"King of the B-Movies"
It Conquered the World
Gunslinger
Viking Women and the Sea Serpent
Teenage Caveman
The Wasp Woman
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Death Race inspired both Carmageddon and Twisted Metal.
James Cameron also worked on this picture.