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ATLAS
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In this mini-epic, Olympic champion Atlas battles Praximedes over the earthly favors of Candia. The most remarkable thing about this film is its shoestring budget. Actually traveling to Greece for the project, Corman clad a handful of extras (himself included) in cardboard costumes to represent massive armies. Stars Michael Forrest, Frank Wolff, Barboura Morris and Walter Maslow. Roger Corman---USA---1960---84 mins.
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ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS
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A fun, baby-boomer classic that remains one of the favorite "B" sci-fi drive-in movies ever made. A scientific research team finds itself stranded on a small island recently exposed to fall-out from a nearby H-bomb test. All animal life has been destroyed except for seagulls and crabs. Unfortunately, the crabs are mutating into giant, intelligent monsters. The thundering beasts literally dissect the island in search of their human prey. Roger Corman---USA---1957---68 mins.
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BUCKET OF BLOOD
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Roger Corman's classic low-budget horror comedy, with Dick Miller getting that life-like quality to his clay sculptures by building them around life-like dead people. "Writer Charles Griffith's predecessor to Little Shop of Horrors is a nifty semi-spoof of the dead-bodies-in-the-wax-museum genre. Nicely captures the spirit of the beatnik era" (Leonard Maltin's Movie & Roger Corman---USA---1959---66 mins.
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CREATURE FROM THE HAUNTED SEA
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Long before Mystery Science Theatre and long before bad "B" films became kitsch favorites, Roger Corman parodied the kind of films he would later become famous for in this low, low, low-budgeted monster movie spoof. The plot concerns a treasure chest of gold coveted by American gangsters and Cuban revolutionaries. A phony sea monster is invented by the gangsters to scare off (or, if need be, kill off) the Cubans, but a real sea monster is out to keep the goodies from everyone. Filmed in Puerto Rico, with the undersea footage apparently shot in some aquarium. Lead actor "Edward Wain" is actually future Oscar-winning screenwriter Robert Towne. Not to be confused with the Monte Hellman-directed, Corman-produced Beast from Haunted Cave, although both were derived from an earlier Corman effort, Naked Paradise. Charles B. Griffith wrote the witty screenplay. Roger Corman---USA---1961---76 mins.
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CRY BABY KILLER, THE
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Jack Nicholson made his film debut in this Roger Corman quickie about a panicked juvenile delinquent who takes a woman and child hostage. Sure, it's no Easy Rider, but The Cry Baby Killer is perfect for those interested in watching a true Hollywood madman get his feet wet. With Harry Lauter and Carolyn Mitchell. Jus Addiss---USA---1958---75 mins.
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DINOSHARK
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Whoa!? We don't know how SyFy pulled it off, but producer Roger Corman and his anthropological film crew captured footage of the elusive Dinoshark, relative of the prehistoric megalodon, and pretty much a swimming dragon. They film the Dinoshark its natural habitat (a melted glacier, then the Gulf of Mexico) and study its diet (beautiful beachgoers). With Eric Balfour and Iva Hasperger.
Kevin O'Neill---USA---2010---90 mins.
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FALL OF HOUSE OF USHER/ PIT &
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The Midnite Movies Double Feature collection combines two of Roger Corman's finest stabs at filming the dark tales of Edgar Allen Poe. In The Fall of the House of Usher (85 mins.), Vincent Price stars as the tormented Roderick Usher, whose family history is plagued by madness and murder. Corman's second Poe adaptation, The Pit and the Pendulum (80 mins.), is an atmospheric chiller highlighted by slick production design and the histrionic theatricality of Price's performance. These films established that , when he set his mind to it, the king of bargain basement cinema could be a very accomplished filmmaker. The heightened artistry of both of these horror classics can be credited in large part to Floyd Crosby's stylish camerawork and the scripts of acclaimed fantasy writer Richard Matheson. Roger Corman---USA---1960/1961---165 mins.
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FIVE GUNS WEST
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1955 was Roger Corman's first year as a film director, and this solid western was one of four features the low-budget legend turned out that year. John Lund and Dorothy Malone star in the tale of a confederate officer who recruits a band of pardoned criminals to join him on a manhunt for a traitor and gold thief. With Mike Connors and Jonathon Haze. Roger Corman---USA---1955---78 mins.
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FRANKENSTEIN UNBOUND
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The infamous Roger Corman directs this gore-filled, endearingly awkward take on the Frankenstein monster. As opposed to Shelley's gothic masterpiece, though, Corman is working with Brian Aldiss' sci-fi novel Frankenstein Unbound, wherein a mad scientist, Dr. Buchanan (John Hurt), from the future slips into a time warp while working on a weapon of global proportions. Ending up in nineteenth century Switzerland, he stumbles upon none other than Dr. Frankenstein (Raul Julia) and Mary Shelley (Bridget Fonda). Impressive make-up, great performances, and a crazy framing story help differentiate Corman's production from Kenneth Branagh's "quality" Mary Shelley's Roger Corman---USA---1990---82 mins.
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INTRUDER, THE (SPECIAL EDITION)
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Roger Corman's name is synonymous with the bottom line essentials of the low-budget film market, but early in his career he stepped away from drive-in fare like Not of This Earth and A Bucket of Blood to produce a personal film. The Intruder (a.k.a. Shame and I Hate Your Guts) is a bold film about racism in the American south. At a time when the major studios only cautiously made films on the subject, Corman's rough-hewn but powerful film tackled the issue head on. A then-unknown William Shatner stars as a corrupting force of bigotry who incites the white citizens of a small town to violently rebel against the tide of integration. Charles Beaumont adapted his own novel for the screen. Roger Corman---USA---1961---83 mins.
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LAST WOMAN ON EARTH
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Roger Corman's variation on The World, The Flesh and the Devil. Two men and a woman appear to be the only survivors of a world-wide nuclear holocaust. Can they survive together? Well-acted with a very literate script. With Anthony Carbone and Betsy Moreland. Roger Corman---USA---1960---71 mins.
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LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (NICHOL
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Jack Nicholson is the masochist who thrives on dental pain in this very funny cult classic from Roger Corman. The preposterous plot revolves around a young do-nothing who murders people to feed his carnivorous plant. Roger Corman---USA---1960---70 mins.
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NOT OF THIS EARTH
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This remake of Roger Corman's classic, 1957 sci-fi cheapie is best known for being the first non-porn film for adult film sensation Traci Lords. Prolific junk-maker Jim Wynorski (Chopping Mall) convinced Corman to back his remake, knowing Lords' presence would make it a video sensation. As for the film...well, Corman's original space vampire feature was more fun, but Wynorski does show Ms. Lords to good effect. Proving that he knows how to get mileage from his material, Corman would produce yet another remake in 1995, and still another in 1998 disguised under the title Star Portal.
Jim Wynorski---USA---1988---81 mins.
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PIRANHA
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For producer Roger Corman, the main motivation behind Piranha was to exploit the success of Jaws with a low-budget knock-off. When he assigned Joe Dante to direct the project, however, Corman got much more in the bargain. Working from a clever script by John Sayles, Dante made a film that is as much a spoof as a rip-off. Rife with movie references and populated with B-movie character actors (Dick Miller, Paul Bartel, Kevin McCarthy, Barbara Steele and others), this is a highly successful amusement.
Joe Dante---USA---1978---92 mins.
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ROGER CORMAN COLLECTION
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No one in showbiz springboarded more Hollywood careers than cult producer-director extraordinaire Roger Corman, doing it all with roughly the equivalent of a child's allowance. This set includes eight of his infamous productions: the classic low-budget horror comedy, A Bucket of Blood (1959, 66 mins.); Premature Burial (1962, 81 mins.); the Grand Prix racing flick, The Young Racers (1963, 84 mins.), on which Francis Coppola worked as an assistant and filmed his Dementia 13 on off-time s; X (1963, 79 mins.), or The Man with X-Ray Eyes; the Hell's Angels exploitationarium, The Wild Angels (1966, 93 mins.), with Peter Fonda, Nancy Sinatra and Diane Ladd; the underground relic, The Trip (1967, 85 mins.), featuring Peter Fonda as a TV director on LSD, co-starring spot s for Dennis Hopper and Peter Bogdanovich, and a script by Jack Nicholson; Bloody Mama (1970, 90 mins.), starring Shelley Winters, Bruce Dern and Robert De Niro; and the hilarious satiric sci-fi, Gas-s-s (1971, 79 mins.). Roger Corman---USA---1959-1971
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ROGER CORMAN'S BEST OF THE B'S - COLLECTION 1
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A fittingly-economical collection of seven low-budget, high-octane B-movies from producer extraordinaire, Roger Corman. The original The Fast and the Furious (Edward Sampson, 1955, 73 mins.) stars co-director John Ireland as a drag racer and framed man. He escapes from jail, steals Dorothy Malone's Jaguar XK, and gets the cops chasing and her heart racing. In T-Bird Gang (Richard Harbinger, 1959, 65 mins.), a fine '50s period piece, a high school student cooperates with authorities in order to infiltrate the gang of juvenile delinquents that murdered his father. Featuring Ed Nelson as the head sadistic punk. Wild parties, motorcycles and drag races abound in The Wild Ride (Harvey Berman, 1960, 80 mins.). A 23-year-old Jack Nicholson runs down two cops and then kidnaps the girlfriend of a friend who has gone straight. A high-speed chase is climaxed with a wild victory celebration. Overlooked among the slew of car films of the 1960s and early '70s, Pit Stop (Jack Hill, 1969, 92 mins.) is one of the better drive-in films of its era. Brian Donlevy and a young Ellen Burstyn star in a story of rivalry on and off the race track. B-movie veteran Jack Hill (Switchblade Sisters) enlivens the film with some truly exciting racing footage. The misleadingly-titled biker flick, Naked Angels (Bruce D. Clark, 1969, 89 mins.), stars Michael Greene as an especially brutish biker who leads his Los Angeles gang on the war path in search of their rivals in Las Vegas. Boasting Scott Glenn, a young Gary Busey, and the screenwriting of Jonathan Demme,Angels Hard as They Come (Joe Viola, 1971, 85 mins.) tried to turn the outlaw biker movie on its head, despite offering the same beloved mix of sex, drugs, violence and two-wheeled mayhem. Bury Me an Angel (Barbara Peeters, 1972, 89 mins.) stars Dixie Peabody as--in Corman's poetic terms--"a howling hellcat humping a hot steel hog on a roaring rampage of revenge!" To the bikers who murdered her brother, you've been warned.
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ROGER CORMAN'S CULT CLASSICS (JACKSON COUNTY JAIL / CAGED HEAT)
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Two trashy, yet talented women-in-prison pictures from producer Roger Corman, locked up here in the same DVD. In Jackson County Jail (Michael Miller, 1976, 89 mins.), Yvette Mimieux picks up the wrong hitchhiker and lands in the local slammer without identification. When she kills a horny guard, she becomes a fugitive with a real desperado, played by Tommy Lee Jones. Car chases and gunfire follow. A well-made, hard-edged action picture. Before that, Jonathan Demme made his directorial debut with Caged Heat (1974, 83 mins.) for Corman's New World Pictures. A beautiful petty criminal is thrown into the penal hell of Connorville. Here she must fight against ruthless inmates and even more cruel, corrupt, and depraved officials to survive. Tongue-in-cheek, though not enough to put off its target exploitation audience. Barbara Steele plays the wheelchair-bound warden. Music by John Cale. "...entertaining in a trashy way... there's an unusually fine ensemble of incarcerated hussies" (Gerald Peary, Boston Phoenix).
Michael Miller/Jonathan Demme---USA---1976/1974---172 mins.
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ROGER CORMAN'S PUERTO RICO T
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In the early 1960's, legendary producer Roger Corman shot three B-features on the sunny island of Puerto Rico. These creature features and apocalyptic thrillers all make excellent use of their lush, tropical settings. Last Woman on Earth (Roger Corman, 1960, 71 mins.) is a drive-in disaster flick in which deep sea divers resurface to discover that the earth's population has been wiped out by a freak atmospheric occurrence. With Anthony Carbone and Betsy Jones-Moreland. Creature From the Haunted Sea (Roger Corman and Monte Hellman, 1961, 60 mins.) follows a group of criminals as they cash in on a political uprising before getting thwarted by a giant sea monster. Finally, Battle of Blood Island (Joel Rapp, 1960, 64 mins.) is a thrilling survival drama about GI's fighting to stay alive on a deserted South Pacific island. With Richard Devon and Ron Kennedy. Roger Corman/Monte Hellman/Joel Rapp---USA/Puerto Rico---1960-1961---195 mins.
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SECRET INVASION
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Following The Masque of the Red Death, Roger Corman directed this handsome WWII film that was shot on location in Dubrovnik. Stewart Granger plays a British Intelligence officer who assembles a ragtag crew of criminals to infiltrate Yugoslavia and rescue an imprisoned Italian general with Allied sympathies. Expect great action sequences and drama to boot. With Raf Vallone, Mickey Rooney, Edd Byrnes, and Henry Silva. Roger Corman---USA---1964---95 mins.
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SHARKTOPUS
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Whoa!? We don't know how SyFy pulled it off, but producer Roger Corman and his anthropological film crew captured footage of the elusive Sharktopus, an abominable beast of legend with the head of a Great White, the tentacles of a giant octopus, and some spikes for good measure. They film the Sharktopus its natural habitat (mad geneticist's lab, later Puerto Vallarta) and study its diet (scantily-clad spring breakers). With Eric Roberts and Hector Jimenez.
Declan O'Brien---USA---2010---89 mins.
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