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Director
Roger Corman
Defining Films
Profile
Roger Corman is an American filmmaker renowned for his prolific output and innovative low-budget filmmaking techniques that revolutionized independent cinema. He directed and produced numerous B-movies, science fiction films, and horror pictures from the 1950s onward, while also serving as a mentor and producer for many future Hollywood directors including Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, and James Cameron. Corman's influence on genre cinema and his ability to create entertaining films with minimal budgets made him a legendary figure in American film history.
In Their Own Words
I consciously drew visual influence from German Expressionism and aimed for the dreamlike atmosphere found in films like Jean Cocteau's 'Beauty and the Beast.'
On Tales of Terror · How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime (Roger Corman's autobiography)
Filmography (56)
Frankenstein Unbound
Deathsport
Gas-s-s-s… or, It May Become Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It
Gas-s-s-s… or, It May Become Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It
Von Richthofen and Brown
The Red Baron
Bloody Mama
Target: Harry
De Sade
The Wild Racers
The Trip
The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
A Time for Killing
The Wild Angels
The Tomb of Ligeia
The Masque of the Red Death
The Secret Invasion
The Haunted Palace
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
The Young Racers
The Terror
The Raven
The Premature Burial
Tales of Terror
Tower of London
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Intruder
Atlas
Creature from the Haunted Sea
Last Woman on Earth
Ski Troop Attack
The Little Shop of Horrors
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Wasp Woman
A Bucket of Blood
She Gods of Shark Reef
Teenage Cave Man
Machine-Gun Kelly
War of the Satellites
I, Mobster
Rock All Night
Not of This Earth
Naked Paradise
Teenage Doll
The Undead
Attack of the Crab Monsters
Carnival Rock
Sorority Girl
The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent
The Beast with a Million Eyes
The Oklahoma Woman
It Conquered the World
Gunslinger
Day the World Ended
Five Guns West
Swamp Women
Apache Woman