Movies: Roger Corman

Once a vibrant part of American culture, drive-ins reached their peak in the late 1950s with almost 5,000 dotting the nation. Although drive-ins are experiencing a resurgence, today less than 400 remain. In a nation that loves cars and movies, why ha...

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A detective investigating his girl friend's death gets caught up in the world of rock & roll....

Three smalltown friends looking to leave their troubles behind come up with a robbery scheme to fund their trip to the big city. But as their plan goes awry and the authorities become involved, they are left with no other alternative but to take host...

Documentary looking at how Hollywood went from a small town to a mega center....

A fragile and sultry young woman claims to be the innocent victim of multiple attackers, but something doesn't quite add up. Maybe it's the way men turn up dead after spending the night with her. Maybe it's her cloudy past. Maybe it's the shady psych...

April 1990 - Six horror icons gather at the horror cafe to create the ultimate horror movie for the year 2000, these icons include: horror author Lisa Tuttle, director John Carpenter, author Clive Barker, producer & director Roger Corman, novelist Ra...

Deep inside the nation's top chemical weapons facility, a brilliant terrorist takes a Congresswoman hostage. The Navy can't stop him. The Air Force can't reach him. The Coast Guard can't kill him. Only one man can do the job: special agent Ryan Coope...

This documentary was broadcast on the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) cable channel to kick off the presentation of films related to TCM's theme of the month for September 2001. Actors Lee Grant and Paul Mazursky, producer Roger Corman, director John Car...

Ivan Cardoso is the inventor of the terrir, a subgenre that mixes comedy, Brazilian chanchadas and classic American horror. This film promotes a rescue of his work by mixing archival material, animations and fictional reconstructions....

Samuel Z. Arkoff, along with James Nicholson, founded the immensely successful American International Pictures. AIP discovered an untapped audience in the American teenager and proceeded to turn independent filmmaking on it's head as they churned out...

Teenage nurses give love therapy. Lots of action when they try to straighten out the corrupt hospital staff....

'In Hock & Staying There' chronicles Alexandre's exploits as an Indie filmmaker as he interviews other filmmakers like underground legend David 'The Rock' Nelson, horror writer Jay Bonansinga (The Walking Dead) as well as many others during the 1995 ...

A totally Cardoso-appropriated footage delirium, done as a tribute to US independent cinema's original rebel. In the end, Corman himself blesses Cardoso by saying: "You blended horror, sex and humour very well. And particularly the editing is very go...

Roger Corman discusses his horror comedy films for American International Pictures....

Feel the need for more speed? Then buckle up for a gritty blacktop thrill ride. Reno, a young mechanic, dreams of joining the professional racing circuit. He spends his days at his uncle's garage and his nights conquering the world of illegal street...

A hosted horror movie show with Gerald Caiafa Jr. as "Jerry Only" and Paul Caiafa as "Doyle" who present the 1960 movie "Horror Hotel" on this 1996 direct to video presentation....

Back in December 1994, BBC2 devoted a Saturday evening to the bizarre, maddening and the macabre; screening a bunch of specially commissioned programmes and incredibly strange films long into the night, peppering proceedings with introductions from t...