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Roger Corman left the director's chair after the WWI aerial warfare flick Von Richthofen and Brown in 1971. Starting New World Pictures, he segued into producing full time, figuring he could make more money that way. The cliche in Hollywood is that everyone wants to direct. Well, Corman directed 50 plus films, and apparently…

As Corman's Poe series started to wane (if not artistically), his use of monsters was nearly over. Most of the Poe films didn't feature monsters per se. The Masque of Red Death, generally considered the best of the bunch, featured the ultimate monster: Death. The series ended next with the still pretty great The…

1963. Roger Corman, despite working on (comparatively) bigger movies, still directed five films that year. Only one (The Young Racers) wasn't a horror film, The Raven, The Terror, The Man With the X-Ray Eyes and The Haunted Palace. None except the last really featured a monster per se. The Haunted Palace was sold as…

Sorry, I brainfarted on doing this yesterday. So I had another movie lined up for the Watch Party. However, it was on Amazon Prime (which we did on Kast before) and either I had glitch issues or they changed it so you can't so Prime movies anymore. So less than 15 minutes before show…

Corman obviously slowed down a bit once he started making his Poe films, although 'slow down' is relative in his case. In 1962 he directed four films; the one Vincent Price-lacking Poe film (and unsurprisingly, the least popular) The Premature Burial, his famous racial drama The Intruder, famously remembered as the one film Corman…

Oops, posted this early. Consider it tomorrow's (the 30th) MotD. In 1959 Gene Corman, Roger's brother, produced a low budget monster movie called Beast of Haunted Cave. It was written by Corman's pal and regular coworker Charles B. Griffin. Two years later, in 1961 (yes, it's right, I used a calculator), Roger decided that…

Oh, well, back to work today. Roger Corman, following having directed (not even counting films he produced) 23 movies in six years, moved into the futuristic new decade of the 1960s. Sensing the market was shifting, he went to AIP, who was generally spending two hundred thousand for a pair of black and white…

Roger Corman got super lazy in 1959, directing only three films that year. What a slugabed. I mean, he directed 20 films in the four years prior to that. One of the 1959 films was one of his classics, though, A Bucket of Blood, starring Dick Miller and setting the making of the satirical…