Roger Corman’s suspenseful, cult classic, Beast From Haunted Cave—newly restored from a 4K scan of 35mm archival materials—will be released as a special collector’s edition on Blu-ray and DVD, 24th October 2023 from Film Masters. Acclaimed as the king of low-budget cult movies, Corman produced dozens of films that were both hilarious and thrilling. Among the…
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THE HAUNTED PALACE *** USA 1963 Dir: Roger Corman. 87 mins Roger Corman has reportedly never made a film that didn’t make money. Not really so as a young William Shatner starred in The Intruder (1962) for Corman which turned out to be one of his failures to make money.…
ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS *** USA 1957 Dir: Roger Corman. 62 mins No this is not a film on sexual diseases or etiquette at a seafood restaurant. This is a Roger Corman opus as only he could produce in those halcyon days of the late fifties. The Drive-in culture…
HOUSE OF USHER (DEVIL’S ADVOCATES) by Evert Jan Van Leeuwen Author Evert Jan Van Leeuwen brings a welcome personal touch to this informative celebration of the first of Roger Corman’s beloved Poe Cycle. The monograph opens with Van Leeuwen’s memories of discovering ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ and…
X: THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES **** USA 1963 Dir: Roger Corman. 79 mins Far from the gimmicky shocker suggested by the title, this stand-out Corman picture has a terrific performance by Ray Milland as a modern spin on the doomed Poe protagonists that dominated the filmmaker’s work at…