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… Read Article →

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… Read Article →

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… Read Article →

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… Read Article →

1958 saw Corman expanding his range a bit, to sometimes dubious results. Aside from his Viking epic he made Teenage Caveman, with the weirdly suave Robert Vaughn (shades of George Hamilton playing… Read Article →

After producing / directing eight films in 1957, Roger Corman took a break. He only directed five films that year, and only also produced three of those. What a slacker. (Although he… Read Article →

The Devil you say. Is there a weirder indie genre film of the ’50s than Roger Corman’s The Undead? The fact that Corman knew he could make money with this film–because he… Read Article →

So here we get Corman’s take on a giant monster movie. As you might expect from a Corman cheapie, the script is extremely weird. This is mostly remembered, of course, for Paul… Read Article →