Roger Corman Movies

TerrorFirmer

Can anyone recommend any good movies from the man himself?

Not so much good movies, as they are hilarious low budget movies I know. Im interested in any horror/gore/action/sci fi movies he did.

If anyone could recommend any, thanks!

ObeyGiant

Chapters sell a bunch of horror dvds with three movies per disc, 2 discs for EUR5. They've got a load of Roger Corman stuff on them - I just got through watching a Bucket of Blood with the amazing Dick Miller.

Other good stuff he's got is Deathsport with David Carradine. Bizarre in just how awful it is. My favourite is "Gas-s-s-s... or, It May Become Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It". A little hard to track down, but strangely, it's probably the one movie of his that gets played most on TV.

monkeyfudge

One of the ones that he produced here in Ireland in the 90's is particularly funny...

It was called Escape to Nowhere when I saw it.. but I think it has several different titles.

It's amazingly bad... and a girl I went to college with is one of the main characters in it and she gets her kit off... that was very funny too...

TerrorFirmer

Chapters sell a bunch of horror dvds with three movies per disc, 2 discs for EUR5

Whats chapters?

I would LOVE to see that one made in Ireland.....

I got one of his movies the last day, and before the feature, it has a clip of bits of all his movies, some of them looked so damn ridiculous....in a very watchable humourous kinda way

Edit - I have his movie, the Fantastic Four - now THAT is a crap movie

ObeyGiant

MobileInfantry wrote:

Whats chapters?

Chapters is a fantastic book store on Abbey Street in Dublin. They have a DVD section upstairs that sometimes turns up some gems. Like the horror triple feature DVDs I mentioned.

TerrorFirmer

Cool....Too bad I don't live in Dublin....

Frank Grimes

Death Race 2000. You can pick it up cheap on play.com.

mike65

You should looking out for his classic Poe adaptions not his New Concorde studio era! In the early 80s he produced a few gory Alien ripoffs like Galaxy Of Terror, Forbidden World and stuff like Monsters/Humaniods of the Deep in which slimy reptiles rape the wimmin folk (directed by a woman too!) Do a search on www.imdb.com Avoid any of his cable TV remakes.

Oh no Roger dont do it!

Mike.

If you're looking for Escape to Nowhere then you should try it's alternate title House of the Damned.

I was talking to someone I know a few days ago and he was telling me that a few years ago he met Jeffrey Combs in Galway, while they were filming some Roger Corman film.

nlgbbbblth

the following ones I like

Bloody Mama
The Day The World Ended
Gas-s-s-s
The Intruder
The Pit And The Pendelum
The Trip

monkeyfudge

Deleted User wrote:

If you're looking for Escape to Nowhere then you should try it's alternate title House of the Damned.

Actually I went and checked this morning. The imported NTSC copy I have is called "Spectre". So there is yet another title for you... ha.

George White

He was always reissuing films with different titles. In the 70s, he made a film called Cockfighter with Warren Oates, flopped, released as born to kill, floppped, then Gambling Man. Sometimes, these films would play at the same cinemas at the same time.
It was what b-movie companies did.

nlgbbbblth

George White wrote: »

He was always reissuing films with different titles. In the 70s, he made a film called Cockfighter with Warren Oates, flopped, released as born to kill, floppped, then Gambling Man. Sometimes, these films would play at the same cinemas at the same time.
It was what b-movie companies did.

Cockfighter was directed by Monte Hellman not Roger Corman.

George White

He produced it. Yeh, it was Monte Hellman. He'd had a flop with Two-Lane Blacktop and needed to go back to Corman to make another film!

nlgbbbblth

Both films are great!

George White

Good to see you from zeta minor! I was madeleymade!

nlgbbbblth

George White wrote: »

Good to see you from zeta minor! I was madeleymade!

Nice one - it's a good spot!

mike65

IT LIVES!

johnny_ultimate

Great scott, seven year bump!