Monster of the Day

It's crazy that Corman produced eight movies in 1957, but that he produced and directed eight movies that year is insane. Obviously sci-fi and horror were working for him, because three of the eight films were sci-fi or horror. I'm counting the highly idiosyncratic The Undead, which, man, it's hard to see anyone but…

Roger Corman directed (and produced, although he produced more) three films in 1955, including The Day The World Ended, which we featured yesterday. In 1956, he direct four films (and produced more), including his second monster movie, the much loved It Conquered the World with Peter Graves and Lee Van Cleef and Beverly Garland.…

The second film Roger Corman produced was his first monster movie, Monster From the Ocean Floor in 1954. By 1955, he realized it would be cheaper to direct some films himself than to hire someone else to do it. He directed without credit some of Beast with a Million Eyes (the first film he…

I could never sum up the importance of Roger Corman to B-Movies. Perhaps no one can. Mr. Corman, who has just passed away at the age of 98, was a towering figure for over half a century, arguably as important to American B-movies as Stan Lee was to American comic books. And not just…

Probably my favorite subtitle. Happy Friday Eve!

I mean...it could use a skeleton, but it's still pretty great.

Ah, the glory days. Make a crappy movie, but have a great poster.

The '80s was the last gasp, really, of the beautiful painted movie posters, especially for horror movies. That's because modest flicks like this actually could still play in the theaters, and because the burgeoning video rental market allowed for the artwork to be used to real effect. Another little cultural niche that's basically lost…

Happy Friday! Watch something stupid this weekend. I'll try to cover you if you join the Kast.gg Watch Party tonight. Past that, how about also watching a classic this weekend?    

So Chad had a copy of a fun romantic / comic / murder mystery called Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe. I think I might have read the novel when I was a teen. The lead couple is lovably obnoxious fast food magnate George Segal (who pulls off that tightrope really well)…