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I couldn’t find a foreign poster for this, but hey, the American poster was very nice. I’d say it’s better than the film, but again, Corman films are deceptively good. Sure, if… Read Article →

Last night I checked off another Ghibli film, having seen The Secret World of Arrietty in a theater. Oddly, it’s based on English author’s Mary Norton’s 1952 book The Borrowers, about very… Read Article →

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… Read Article →

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,… Read Article →

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… Read Article →

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… Read Article →

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 →