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Roger Corman, the “King of the Bs” who helped turn out such low-budget classics as “Little Shop of Horrors” and “Attack of the Crab Monsters” and gave many of Hollywood’s most famous actors and directors early breaks, has died. He was 98.
Corman died Thursday at his home in Santa Monica, California, according to a statement released Saturday by his wife and daughters.
“He was generous, open-hearted and kind to all those who knew him,” the statement said. “When asked how he would like to be remembered, he said, ‘I was a filmmaker, just that.’” More
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List these movies as Rodger Corman’s top films. Here
Long road, complete with gravel. RIP
Also in the Senate scene in Godfather II.
Critics look down their noses at Corman’s portfolio, but he knew how to turn a profit on his films and he understood his audiences.
What would he direct now if he was alive and still directing?
Film directors gotta go with the times:
I Was A Teenage Transexual.
Child Attracted Pedophile Aliens From Planet X
Hair Sniffing Mutants
The Covid Monsters
Attack of the Killer Bread Rolls
death race 2000
Mystery Science Theater 3000 must be devastated.
Nice when a person realizes that it is about entertainment and that any pretense of intellectualism or “art” is just that: pretense.
At 98, it probably wasn’t the jab
corman probably wishes he had directed 50’s classic “teenagers from outer space”
I don’t think he ever lost sight of the fact that movies are about entertaining people. Period. Even his cheesiness was entertaining! RIP Mr. Corman. Thanks for enjoyable times.
I had just watched the Raven from 1963 one of my favorite horror movies directed by Roger Corman on ROKU this past week. How can you go wrong with a cast of Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre and a very young Jack Nicholson. I saw this when I was 10 in 1963 at the Lee Theater in downtown Ephrata, Wash. for a quarter. It’s a very humorous, quirky retelling of the Raven by Edgar Allen Poe. NEVERMORE!
The Professor gets killed in Attack of the Crab Monster. Should have stayed on the island with Gilligan.
The Professor was also in that cheesy sci fi stinker This Island Earth. You know, the one with old geezer white haired alien who could be Joey’s doppleganger.
Lots of great schlocky movies I’ve enjoyed. A life well lived.
I see he served in the Navy in WWII. That’s great, but a guy named Corman should have joined the US Marines.
^^^^^
Or a medical corpsman.
What a life! Talk about gusto. The people he met & worked with at their starts is amazing.
What was the one where you could see the wires holding the flying saucer? House of Usher has given me lifelong fear of being trapped in an enclosed space(like a buried coffin).
RIP
Enjoyed his work – immensely.