Tagged: Roger Corman
The Terror is a 1963 American horror film produced by Roger Corman, starring Boris Karloff and Jack Nicholson. A young officer in Napoleon’s army pursues a mysterious woman to the castle of an elderly Baron where he discovers that she is the pawn of an old witch bent on driving the Baron to suicide. The [...]
Creature from the Haunted Sea is a 1961 cult film directed by Roger Corman from a screenplay by Charles B. Griffith. It is a comedy film spoofing the “sea monsters” genre. It can be considered a part of two different “trilogies”, either as the third in a Corman-Griffith comedy trilogy consisting of this film and [...]
The Little Shop of Horrors is a 1960 comedy film directed by Roger Corman. Written by Charles B. Griffith, the film is a farce about an inadequate young florist’s assistant who cultivates a plant that feeds on human blood and flesh. The film stars Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles and Dick Miller, all of [...]
The Last Woman on Earth is a 1960 American science-fiction film produced and directed by Roger Corman. It tells the story of three survivors of a mysterious apocalypse which appears to have wiped out all human life on earth. The screenplay is by Robert Towne, who also appears in the film billed as “Edward Wain”. The music was composed and conducted by Ronald Stein.
The Wasp Woman (Also known by the title “The Bee Girl” and “Insect Woman”) is a science fiction movie directed by Roger Corman which was completed in 1959 (though most audiences didn’t see the film till the official release on February 12, 1960). To pad out the running time when the film was released to [...]
The Raven is a 1963 film produced and directed by Roger Corman. Loosely based on the poem, the Raven, by Edgar Allen Poe, the film is a horror film with a sense of comedy. The film stars Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, and Boris Karloff as a threesome of competing magicians. It’s one of a few [...]
A Bucket of Blood is a 1959 comedy horror film directed by Roger Corman and starring Dick Miller. The film, produced on a $50,000 budget, was shot in five days, and shares many of the low-budget filmmaking aesthetics commonly associated with Corman’s work. Written by Charles B. Griffith, the film is a dark comic satire [...]
Dementia 13 is a 1963 horror thriller released by American International Pictures, starring William Campbell, Patrick Magee, and Luana Anders. The film was written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Roger Corman. Although Coppola had been involved in at least two nudie films previously, Dementia 13 served as his first mainstream, “legitimate” [...]
MST3K – The Undead This movie in particular gets surprisingly good reviews (Leonard Maltin even gave it 3 out of 4 stars!). But it’s just as lame, confusing, and tedious as almost every other film Roger Corman directed. The extremely confusing plot in this one is about a couple of hypnosis researchers who get a [...]
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