Roger Corman
Director, Actor
- Roger Corman Collection #1 (Little Shop of Horrors, The Terror, Monster From the Ocean Floor) (1954-1963)
- Dir. Roger Corman
- Three of dir. Corman's early B–grade efforts on one disc.
- Roger Corman Collection #2 (Creature from the Haunted Seas, It Conquered the World) (1956-1961)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Peter Graves, Lee Van Cleef, Beverly Garland…
- A double–feature of Corman sci–fi 'quickies'.
It Conquered the World (1956) – Van Cleef lures a malevolent alien from Venus to…
- Day the World Ended (1956)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Richard Denning, Lori Nelson, Adele Jergens
- Tight B–movie version of post–nuclear existence from with a small group of survivors battling various mutant creatures and their own…
- Gunslinger (1956)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. John Ireland, Beverly Garland, Allison Hayes
- In this cut–price Roger Corman western, town ain’t big enough for a touch–as–nails lady marshall, and her nemesis, a spiteful…
- Thunder Over Hawaii (Naked Paradise) (1957)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Richard Denning, Beverly Garland
- Corman drive–in melodrama exploits a Hawaiian setting and the sensuous Beverly Garland for a tale of savage passion, kidnapping, and robbery of…
- Sorority Girl (The Bad One) (1957)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Susan Cabot, Fay Baker, Dick Miller
- Nastily excellent early Corman has Susan Cabot play an evil–minded college student who blackmails, teases and dominates various social…
- Rock All Night (1957)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Dick Miller, Abby Dalton
- Two fugitive killers take refuge in a rock'n'roll hotspot and terrorize the customers. Less compelling than dir. Corman's usual B–grade…
- Machine Gun Kelly (1958)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Charles Bronson, Susan Cabot
- A baby–faced Bronson gives an exciting edge to this superior B–movie biopic, based around the criminal career of the Depression–era…
- Teenage Caveman (1958)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Robert Vaughn, Sarah Marshall, Leslie Bradley
- Prehistoric drive–in fare boosted by Roger Corman's knack for never letting action drag, and a baby–faced Robert Vaughn (Man from Uncle)…
- Viking Women And The Sea Serpent (Saga Of The Viking Women And Their Voyage To The Waters Of The Great Sea Serpent) (1958)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Abby Dalton, Susan Cabot
- Roger Corman schlock scraped from the seabed, about a clan of viking women who head out to sea in pursuit of their missing husbands. Soon they are…
- Bucket of Blood, A (1959)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Dick Miller, Ed Nelson
- This has the twin distinction of being both a hilarious send–up of 'beat' culture and a ripping black comedy. Dick Miller is Walter Paisley, a…
- Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Mel Welles, Jack Nicholson
- Hammy black comedy about that ferocious, carnivorous plant named Audrey. A Corman quickie, shot in two days, still remains one of his best, plus it…
- Wasp Woman, The (1960)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Susan Cabot, Michael Mark
- A glamorous but ageing cosmetic executive develops an age–retarding serum, but her lust for youth and wealth is besieged by ugly…
- Fall of the House of Usher, The (1960)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Mark Damon
- More stately than Corman's later Poe adaptations, this three hander set the template with its tale of a poorly nymph afflicted with the 'family…
- Intruder, The (I Hate Your Guts) (1961)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. William Shatner, Leo Gordon
- The only Corman film ever to lose money is not surprisingly perhaps his best. William Shatner excels as a small–time drifter who preaches the…
- Pit and the Pendulum, The (1961)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Barbara Steele
- Corman's most famous plundering of Poe extracts a host of psycho–sexual tensions out of a fine script. Vincent Price is convinced he is the…
- Premature Burial (1962)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Ray Milland, Hazel Court
- The third of Corman's eight Poe adaptations, with Ray Milland cast instead of Vincent Price as a paranoid med student. Tape includes bonus Milland…
- Tales of Terror (1962)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone
- Three Edgar Allen Poe adaptations from his best filmic interpreter Roger Corman. The Tales on offer here are "Morella", "The Black Cat" and "The Case…
- Tower of London (1962)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Michael Pate, Joan Freeman
- This Roger Corman remake of the 1939 original sees Vincent Price stepping into Basil Rathbone shoes as the bloodthirsty Duke of Gloucester. Being…
- Raven, The (1963)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff…
- A great cast inhabits this low budget fantasy–comedy version of Edgar Allan Poe's tale – one of Corman's best.
- Terror, The (1963)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Boris Karloff
- A legendary Corman quickie on which all of star Boris Karloff's scenes were shot in 3 days on sets leftover from THE RAVEN!
- Young Racers, The (1963)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Mark Damon, Patrick Magee
- Teensploitation melodrama from the king of the drive–in cheapie about motor–racing rivalry. Some great racing footage and bratty…
- X - The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Ray Milland, Don Rickles, John Hoyt…
- Furrow–browed scientist Ray Milland discovers the ability to see through matters, and takes advantage with card games and ladies etc., but…
- Haunted Palace, The (1963)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Lon Jr. Chaney, Debra Paget…
- Minor Corman–Price collaboration has Price in a dual role both as the genteel inheritor of a castle, and as the fiendish warlock who once…
- Secret Invasion, The (1964)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Stewart Granger, Raf Vallone, Mickey Rooney…
- Expedient actioner is a rare, unsensational Roger Corman flick about British intelligence using criminals behind enemy lines in WW2 Yugoslavia.
- Masque of the Red Death (1964)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher…
- The best of Corman's Poe adaptations allies the director's playful yet virulent treatment to one of the writer's most strongly allegorical stories.…
- Tomb of Ligeia (1965)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price
- The last of the director's Poe interpretations is one the most memorable. Effective use is made of the eerie English locations and Vincent Price's…
- Wild Angels, The (1966)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Peter Fonda, Nancy Sinatra, Bruce Dern
- First big bikie flick set the blueprint for the genre, with Hell’s Angel Peter Fonda and his main squeeze Nancy Sinatra, having a wild time racing,…
- St. Valentines Day Massacre (1967)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Jason Robards Jr., George Segal, Ralph Meeker…
- A great, trigger–happy actioner from cult film–maker Corman, based on events that led to the murder of many of Chicago's underworld,…
- Trip, The (1967)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Susan Strasberg…
- One of several collaborations between director Roger Corman and Jack Nicholson, who wrote the screenplay. A director of TV commercials gradually…
- Bloody Mama (1970)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Shelley Winters, Robert De Niro
- 'The family that stays together slays together!'. Shelley Winters is Ma Barker, the mad matriarch who led her brood's violent reign in the '30s.…
- Gas-s-s-s (1970)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Ben Vereen, Cindy Williams
- Strange comedy about a leaked gas that kills everyone over the age of 30. Warped social commentary from young idealists of the era.
- State of Things, The (1982)
- Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. Patrick Bauchau, Samuel Fuller, Roger Corman
- Reliving the personal turmoil of his first American production (HAMMETT), Wenders fashions a scathing yet oddly comedic…
- Frankenstein Unbound (1990)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. John Hurt, Raul Julia, Bridget Fonda
- John Hurt stars as a 21st century scientist who is thrown back to 19th century England, where Frankenstein's creature and other famous Brits run…
- Independent, The (2000)
- Dir. Stephen Kessler
Feat. Janeane Garofalo, Jerry Stiller, Ron Howard…
- Jerry Stiller excels as a B–movie director whose downward spiral is the focus of a documentary film crew as he attempts to turn the life story…
- Comedy Central Roasts: William Shatner (2006)
- Feat. William Shatner, Jason Alexander, Sandra Bullock…
- Foulmouthed 'tribute' to much loved ham Shatner doesn't skimp on the vitriol as celebrity friends take the stage to lampoon their boldly going pal,…