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i'm a die hard Roger Corman fan and i've prolly see oh to hazard a guess maybe 150 or close to that number anyways of his movies. so i've seen some of his best films and some of his worst as well.

His Best to start it out with would prolly be Death Race 2000 and old one from (1975) one of his Worst would be it's sequel of sorts if you want to call it a sequel (1978)'s Death Sport granted i taped it off tv i think it was like Sci-fi channel years ago so it had the nudity cut out i believe but it was wow was it bad.

In some ways I guess my favorite RCM is "galaxy of terror", aka mind warp.

Worse would likely be "the beast with a million eyes".

i haven't seen that one actually i dunno why i just haven't but i have seen Beast With a Million Eyes and i actually do agree 100% it is one of his worst.


let's see Summer Camp Nightmare another Classic from (1987) based off The  Butterfly Revolution i forget the author and a book at some point i'd love to read in

fact. i saw this one as a kid and i fell in love with it cause i wanted to be those kids who take over the camp not what happens later on after I think Franklin i want to say his name is and i looked it up and i was actually right. well not after he goes nuts  anyways i have this on VHS in fact and my VCR before it stopped working where i could put VHS movies to dvd's this was one of them.  honestly the film at least is one of those where it doesn't matter if it's letterboxed or not cause i think it's 1:66 or 1:85 i forget which but i have this on VHS as well but under The Death Artist

it's really bad i mean it's got a good cast but it's painfully bad i bought it at Drug Mart a few years ago back when they used to sell VHS tapes i'd always look each time i went and when i saw a Roger Corman i needed to see or don't own i bought it and i had seen this one but i wanted to own it.  i think it's only been watched once since i bought it cause i gave it a 2nd chance

the best: House of Usher and The Masque of the Red Death

the worst: Gunslinger

yeah that one is pretty bad and it made a fun MSTK3000 episode though.

the best Swamp Women one of his 1st films he directed from (1955) i actually like that one it's not a great film by any means but it's a good one i think

the worst The Student Nurses his 1st film of the 70's from (1970) where it was also his first film he made as a producer and i know it was a huge hit for me but i can't see why the film is awful.well other than nudity and that's it but that's not what makes a good movie i don't think, it's the script it's the cast most importantly it's the director

I have a few of his that I like that I'd need to sit down and seriously consider which one was my favourite (Dementia 13, Galaxy of Terror, Forbidden World, Humanoids from the Deep and so on). Deciding which one was his worst though might take a bit more time and thought...

there are some of his that i've only seen once or really don't remember what i thought of them at all cause it's been so long ya know?

like i love love Bucket of Blood the classic (1959) film but loath (1960)'s Last woman on earth WOW was that a bad one. there are i think some films you may love and not realize Corman put those out, check out his filmography and see which ones you remember loving and hating. i've been a fan of his since hell since my brother was in i think high school he's 45 now and the 1st one i think i ever saw was The Pit and the Pendulum the (1961) version

that's the film that introduced me to Corman. that's also my favorite Vincent Price film as well

The st. Valentines day massacre was an odd corman film,  done  as a straight up narrated documentary style movie.

that was his first taste of the big time and he didn't much care for the experience and it's not an awful film i don't think but it's not one of his best either.

i'm sure you all know the story about The Gunfighter and old one From (1950) where Corman was working for i forget what film company put that out and he was script editor i think? or rather i forget the term on what his job was where he would go through them and read them and than say to the studio heads if this one or that one was a good script or a crap one. than one day his boss say Roger how come you never send any up? so he goes well give me a good script and i will.

so they send him a script he reads it and he makes some notes on what to take out and what to put in and he turns it in and his boss in that department got a raise for it and he got no credit at all and the film wins a damn oscar i believe.  that's when he Quit working for the Studio and than later on went on his own.

as for good and bad films,  Good the classic (1963)'s The Raven with a young Jack Nicholson who honestly didn't start out as a very good actor i don't think. it was only later that he became one.

as for the bad i want to say (1967)'s The Trip that one was pretty bad. i've seen most of the films he's directed but not all of them there are still a couple or so of them i still need to see like his last one that movie about the Baron for example

Had a hard time coming up with one I didn't like, & then I remember Battle Beyond The Stars, Which at the time I though was really awesome, & then a couple years later was recycled into Space Raiders.

Not that it's in any way beneath Roger Corman to recycle good material, but I really hated Space Raiders.

Speaking of recycled material, the version of Not Of This Earth that starred Traci Llords is an interestingly bad primer for every decent Roger Corman movie ever made.

i thought Space Raiders was decent not a great movie by any means but it was an okay film but it was a forgettable film too. honestly Not of  This Earth weather it's the (1957) version or the (1988) version the best version is the (1995) version the other 2 are painfully bad. the (1995) version isn't a great movie either it's just there but than i saw that version 1st so maybe that's why i think that i dunno.

people love Battle Beyond The Stars for some reason and i have that on dvd and it's an it's an okay movie. nothing great but not a bad one either by any means.

just okay, as for Good Ones, i want to say (1973)'s The Student Teacher's i bought that on VHS years ago and loved it!  now the  bad

(1973)'s Summer School Teachers it's sequel is really really bad have you seen either of those?

I never meat that  the movie was bad, it was just an odd movie for roger corman.

Best: geez, that's a toughie. Probably "The Intruder" with William Shatner.

Worst: I just watched a mid 80s chicks-in-prison flick produced by his Concorde Productions company called "Vendetta" that might qualify.

My favorite would be IT CONQUERED THE WORLD (1956).-Cool monsters, Lee Van Cleef, Beverly Garland and Peter Graves! And Dick MIller too!
 Worst- GASSSS! (1970)-post nuke hippie movie. Stupid as a box of rocks.

I've heard of tbast movie, RC. I could never bring myself to watch it. Thanks for taking the bullet for me.  :wink:

It's real pretenous too. Tries to be deep and hip...just ends up boring and dumb as a doorknob.

Again, thanks for validating my decision to about that stinker. (Didja see what I did there?)

instead of saying to yourself it's that bad cause i'm just going by guesswork as i haven't seen it in awhile, it's not bad actually, but if others thinks it stinks why not watch the MSTK3000 episode of it than? they did do a couple of Corman movies on there if my memory is right.

as for Best, (1962)'s Tales Of Terror'

Worst (1997)'s Knocking On Death's Door that one if my memory is right has David Carradine in it. i haven't seen that one in years but wow is that one bad

Best:

The Day the World Ended(1956)
Not Of This Earth(1957)
Tales Of Terror(1962)
Dementia 13(1963)
The Haunted Palace(1963)
Masque Of the Red Death(1964)
Queen Of Blood(1966)
Piranha(1978)
Humanoids From the Deep(1980)
Frankenstein Unbound(1990)

Worst:

Beast With A Million Eyes(1955)
Teenage Caveman(1958)
The Wasp Woman(1959)
Last Woman On Earth(1960)
The Terror(1963)


Creature From the Haunted Sea(1960)

some of those i disagree with and some i agree with, for starters, on your best, leaving out my talk about The Day the world ended i already spoke about that one.
well Not of this earth for me is among his worst, Dementia 13 i thought it was bad but than to be fair i haven't seen that one in years i need to revist that one to be honest i also have that on VHS as well.

Queen of Blood is another one i thought was awful and i love Mario Bava but not that one, Humanoids from the deep i think is a decent one to be fair. also Frankenstein unbound as well is decent.  i have that on VHS as well.

with your worst the ones i love or liked i enjoy Teenage Caveman for what it is, not a movie i love but if you want a bad version of that film watch the remake holy cow is that one awful. the rest i agree with.

i don't love Piranha it's just not among my favorites that's all oddly i think the remake from (1995) is better. i think it's really only because i saw it 1st before the Original.

let's say his Best for me i'm to lazy to list them all lol are for this round are i think is (1960)"s  Little shop of horrors i also love the remake as well.

his worst though someone said this one already i haven't (1970)"s Gas...sss  or whatever the title is, that is curiously a film that i think sucks really mainly because it was  submitted to the boys at AIP and instead of releasing it the way Roger Corman wanted it they made the version they wanted out and so their version sucks.  much like their version of The Trip really is awful and it makes you wonder if both films were actually a bit better before they got into the hands of Sam Arkoff and James H. Nicholson

If you like Mario bava you must see "planet of the vampires".

Bava had nothing to do with QUEEN OF BLOOD whatsoever. Parts of it were taken from the film PLANETA BUR (1962) aka PLANET OF STORMS, which is a very good Russian sci- fi film, with all the Basil Rathbone and space vampire stuff added in later.

planet of the vampires was the one i was thinking of actually and i have seen that one i didn't like that one either. both that film and this one i thought stunk but if you guys like them that's fine i'm glad those films have an audience. wasn't it Kill baby kill he did? that was brilliant if i'm thinking of the right film.

and Black Sunday was brilliant as well but not the US version which isn't the one i watched but the European cut of if which is the one i watched

Of his early work, the DAY THE WORLD ENDED (1956), with it's goofy 3 eyed monster was lots of fun. I quite enjoyed NOT OF THIS EARTH, with Paul Birch as the white-eyed space vampire.
I'm not including things he produced- that's too much to sort, with quality going out the window depending on who directed what. DEATHRACE 2000 was fantastic, but Paul Bartel directed that one. So when you have drek like DEATHSPORT, directed by Alan Arkush (who's only half way good movie is ROCK AND ROLL HIGH SCHOOL), you get s**t.
I liked most of his Poe stuff, and I'm glad he gave some good directors and actors (ie. Coppola, Nicholson) they're first break, but mostly he was just another B-film maker grinding out whatever sold at the time.

KILL,BABY,KILL was one of Bava's best, IMHO.  :thumbup:

You know James Cameron got his first break on corman's "galaxy of terror"?

Also it was one of Robert Englund's first roles.

His best work! His only good work, at that...

actually Robert England started films in the early 70's i think. James Cameron's 1st film that he worked on wasn't Galaxy of Terror it was Battle Beyond the stars he came up with the look of that spaceship they use actually. Robert England actually looking it up was in the (1976) version of A Star is Born and funny thing i saw him talk about it in an interview a few months ago when i was watching stuff on you tube, and he said that Kris Kristofferson actually broke his nose in that film

which is why his nose today is a bit off that's why. that's what he said anyways. as for Corman i'm counting stuff he produced cause there are a lot of gems in there such as Rock N roll High school i just love that film.

i haven't seen Galaxy of terror yet, but on the set of that the only thing Cameron says that he did was he made maggots move by electrocuting them.

when Cameron started there he was doing Models which is how he came up with the design for battle beyond the stars.

here's another Bad one 'The Lady in Red  another old one from (1979)  looking it up his wife produced that one and it's i think pretty bad but some may like it and that's fine.

Pennywise, galaxy of terror is a good movie,  but...


It has an extremely controversial scene in it. There's no easy way to describe it,  so i'll just say it.

A woman is attacked,  stripped naked and raped to death by a giant maggot.


Yes, it happened.

oh i've seen the scene they play it on "Corman's World' that came out (2011) i want to say check that one out my friend it's great, you saw have Jack Nicholson no joke cry in it on how much he loves Corman cause he gives total props to the man cause he knows that without him he'd have no career. i give props for Jack crying because i get the feeling that he's not the kind of guy that does that often.

For me, there are so many bad Coreman films to choose from, Galaxy of Terror does rank up (or down) there.

However, "The Intruder" with William Shatner is highly underrated.  Heck, not only does Coreman get praise for directing this gem, Shatner should have gotten at least a Best Actor nomination ..I'm not kidding.

Movies he directed:

Best - LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
Worst - THE TERROR

Movies he produced:

Best - DEATH RACE 2000
Worst - WIZARDS OF THE LOST KINGDOM

I like the Carnosaur movies. 

The Undead was pretty fun as well.

Ever see Deathsport 3000?

No. Corman has produced over 300 movies and I've only seen a small percentage of them.

Rev are you sure about that? check out IMDB and you may see you've seen more films of his than you realize.

yes the guy has done a lot of bad movies i honestly dunno if the good outweighs the bad or vice versa cause he's done so many films ya know?

Best The Undead an oldie from (1957) i think this one is one of his best than you have his worst

(1975)'s Capone which is nice to see a young Stallone but the film is really forgettable to be honest

Well, after you see Deathsport 3000 you just might change  your mind in regards  to his worst movie...

This was corman's effort at working within the Hollywood box. He made it as a straight up mainstream movie. Later he decided he didn't like working in the Hollywood box.

top of my head it wasn't The undead it was St. Valentine's Day massacre that was his 1st experience with the big studio's the next time i think off the top of my head was (1990)'s Frankenstein Unboud and than the (2008) version of Death Race.

his movies were going to drive-in's and such until the 1980's actually before home video took over. i read his autbiography years ago i think it was and in it that's what he said, that book is really out of date now but it came out i want to say (1990) a damn good book too in case you haven't read it.


let's see another good one, (1962)'s Premature Burial did i say that one already? i can't remember and the bad

(1975)'s Crazy Mama which i have yet to watch all of it cause on how bad it is at least i thought so anyways

and i think he may have produced  (1979)'s The Warrior's but i could be wrong on that one

If I've seen 30 of his movies that's a lot of movies, but it's still less than 10% of his total output.

Nah- Roger had no connection to that film.

Oh- by the way- CRAZY MAMA was directed by Johnaton (SILENCE OF THE LAMBS) Demme!

i want to say i seen over 100 of his films maybe close to 130 or 150 i'll have to count them on IMDB to be sure but  i know it's over 100 of them, just like iv'e seen over 100 of Vincent Price's films i think and i think around that too of Christopher Lee's as well or over 100 of his too.

yeah Johnathon Demme started out with Corman and in my book i have it has him talk about it too.. he did that and (1976)'s Fighting Mad which is an okay film not a great film but it's decent anyways in the book he tells how he was dying to do that film but Corman said no not yet you have to do Crazy Mama first as we don't currently have anyone to direct it and he got p**sed and he stood up to Roger and said okay but if do it i want to do Fighting Mad next and Roger than agreed

in the book Corman even said how he had every right to be p**sed about it too.  i can respect a guy who admits that ya know?

of his later ones that i dunno how many of you saw of his made for video films i had to look these titles up cause i just could not remember the titles.

the best is and i really loved this one is though IDMB says (1999) i think my VHS of it says (1998) is one called Stray Bullet but it's got Robert Carradine in  it and Fred Dwyer and Rebecca Staab as well. there is a sequel to it and looking it up it's the name of it

the worst is Dangerous Curve from (2000) it's also known as Stray Bullet 2 and that's one got Robert Carradine as well as David Carradine too that one they pretty much remade the 1st film not a surprise there but the second one really really sucked ass.

IMDB gives the 1st film 4.9 and the one 4.5 for the 2nd film that sounds about right but i think the first one should get a higher rating than it has

and i never use Rotten Tomatoes i dunno why i just prefer IMDB iv'e just never cared for it cause they give too many movies i love a really low rating and ones i hate a high rating, yes IMDB does that too but most people it seems use Rotten Tomatoes rather than IMDB which is why it bothers me more i think

Yes, I like NOT OF THIS EARTH by far and away the best.  That might be the coolest crap ever made.   :thumbup:

 :question: Which one?  :question:

1957... the original; I don't think that remake has much to do with ROGER CORMAN.  

http://youtu.be/-CqAszIdbcQ (http://youtu.be/-CqAszIdbcQ)   

 :question: Which Remake?  :question:
I mean, I've never seen the 1995 version, but the 1988 version is a primer for every schlocky sci-fi Roger Corman ever made!

1980s TRACI LORDS... and it is an homage to CORMAN, but I don't think he had much to do with it...  yeh, there is a later one, never saw it.  


I am reposting this YouTube, 'cause if you haven't seen it, it is one of the VERY BEST BAD MOVIES ever made!  It's a GOOD BAD movie! 


http://youtu.be/-CqAszIdbcQ (http://youtu.be/-CqAszIdbcQ)   

Which remake had michael york?

the haunting of Hell house i think? (1999) i think that came out in? it was i think  bad one but than i haven't seen that one in years and it must be forgettable cause i don't  remember what rating i gave it.

The Evil (1978) this is an amazing horror film that you all need to see who love horror films

I just watched Screwballs.  Corman was a producer on that.  It's a very early 80s teen sex comedy and as far as 80s teen sexy comedy's go, it ain't all bad. 

yes that one is Corman and that on i don't think i have seen. i don't remember what all the ones i posted about on here to be honest

But has anyone seen any of his Nurses films? WOW are they terrible i've so far seen the first 3 and wow are they bad. but if you want a really good Corman flix

Check out "Terminal Island (1973) no joke i watched this one not that long ago and i really loved it. it has a young Tom Selleck in it and he is of course really good in it.

His Women In Prison films are cult/grindhouse classics!

i've seen 2 of them one of them i thought was terrible i forget which one it was but i think it was the 1st one, but i have The Big Bird Cage (1972) on dvd and it's a decent film. the funniest thing about that film is Vic Diaz the actor who played the guard that was gay well in the film he was but he was actually straight and when the women rode him he loved it.  though it was fake he didn't care he he