Posted on 04/06/2016 12:46:33 PM PDT by Borges
The pioneering 'B' movie filmmaker started out in the '50s directing cheapo Horror and Science Fiction films and ended up in the 80s directing cheapo Horror and Science Fiction films. Along the way he discovered virtually the entire 'New Hollywood' school; Among the first to see talent in young unknowns like Jack Nicholson, Robert DeNiro, Francis Ford Coppola, and Martin Scorsese among many others. His Edgar Allan Poe adaptations of the early to mid 60s were ideological precursors of Easy Rider and the late 60s counterculture films; often centering on an idealistic young man who confronts a decadent member of the previous generation (usually played by Vincent Price).
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Never heard of him.
His Fantastic 4 was not bad although it never actually was released.
Loved supergator.....dinocroc......Supergator Vs. Dinocroc.
Some of his movies were so bad they were good.
If you like the genre at all surely you’ve seen the ‘60s Poe films he did with Vincent Price. House of Usher etc...
Nope. Haven’t watched low budget horror films since my early teens.
They weren’t THAT low budget. And I take it your teens were in the 50s then? :)
One of those “holy cow, he’s still around and kicking” stories, lol. How appropriate to hear about this on the day of Merle Haggard’s passing.
Born in ‘61.
Well you didn’t watch the classics in your teens then.
There were always Saturday night horror flicks.
Some of Corman’s earlier AIP items sure were cheapies, though. Didn’t his “Rock All Night” take place on a single, cheesey, claustrophobic set? Haven’t seen that one in nearly forty years, but I remember its extreme low-budget. At least when he made “She Gods of Shark Reef” in Hawaii alongside that other flick with Richard Denning, he served up some outdoor scenes.
The Poe stuff is good, but I can’t think of a single post-Poe effort that Corman did that I found remotely interesting. When an overt sense of self-consciousness starts pervading low-budget horror/sci-fi schlock, it loses everything I found initially appealing about it.
Every movie Corman directed or produced was done on time, under budget and never lost a dime. The last movie he directed, “Frankenstein Unbound”, starring John Hurt and Raul Julia; was quite good.
I got to meet him briefly once at a science fiction fan event.
Nice man.
About 20 years ago it was...and he had a hot babe on his arm.
Wild.
Coincidentally Corman’s World should be in my mailbox from Netflix right now. Maybe I’ll watch that instead of my other plans.
Any of them make it to MST3K?
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