In honor of the great B-movie mogul's passing. It can be stuff he produced or directed. Here's his IMDB page: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000339/ (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000339/)
For me (in no order):
Little Shop of Horrors (1960) d
Death Race 2000 (1975) p
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963) d
Battle Beyond the Stars (1980) p
Caged Heat (1974) p
Dementia 13 (1963) p
The Big Bird Cage (1972) p
The Undead (1957) d
Barbarian Queen (1985) p
The Trip (1967) d
He also distributed some great movies, including art-house classics from Bergman, Fellini, early Cronenberg, "The Tin Drum"...
I have seen plenty of Corman movies back in the day, but I'm only going to list Corman movies I own on physical media. My top 10:
1. Tales of Terror 1962
2. Death Race 2000 1975
3. Piranha 1978
4. Grand Theft Auto 1977
5. Deathstalker II: Duel of the Titans 1987
6. Deathstalker 1983
7. The Unborn II 1994
8. Barbarian Queen 1985
9. Carnosaur 1993
10. Dinocroc 2004
Bonus: 10 highest-rated Corman movies I still need to check out:
Rage and Discipline (2004) p
The Intruder (1962) d
Palace of the Damned (2013) p
Saint Jack (1979) p
The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) d
House of Usher (1960) d
The Masque of the Red Death (1964) d
A Bucket of Blood (1959) d
Lola's Game (1998) p
Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979) p
FRANKENSTEIN UNBOUND
TALES OF TERROR
THE TRIP
THE WILD ANGELS
THE INTRUDER
X THE MAN WITH THE X RAY EYES
HOUSE OF USHER
THE TOMB OF LIGEIA
THE RAVEN
THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM
1. the DAY THE WORLD ENDED (1955)
2. IT CONQUERED THE WORLD (1956)
3. the WILD ANGELS (1966)
3. DEATHRACE 2000 (1975)
4. the PIT AND THE PENDULUM (1961)
5. COMEDY OF TERRORS (1963)
6. A BUCKET OF BLOOD (1959)
7. BLOODY MAMA (1970)
8. DILLINGER (1973)
9. the KILLER SHREWS (1959)
10. ROCK AND ROLL HIGH SCHOOL (1979) My favorite of ALL of these!
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galaxy of terror
starcrash
humanoids fdrom the deep
battle beyond the sars
wild angels
angels hard as they come
the dunwich horror
not of this earth (1988)
death race 2000
deathsport
barbarion queen
terror within (1989)
Rock N Roll High School
Piranha (1978)
Death Race 2000
Last Man on Earth
Big Bad Mama
The Intruder
Battle Beyond the Stars
The Fantastic Four (1994)
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Great Texas Dynamite Chase
Forbidden World.
Deathrace 2000.
Galaxy of Terror.
Piranha.
Deathstalker.
Humanoids from the Deep.
House of Usher.
The Masque of the Red Death.
Sharktopus.
Death Race.
I think everything I would mention has already been mentioned, excluding maybe Jim Wynorski's sublime TRANSYLVANIA TWIST and HARD TO DIE, both of which are far superior to JW's NOT OF THIS EARTH remake, even w/o T. Lords' involvement.
Instead I will repeat an admission I made at some point in the past on this site - that I was a P.A. at Concorde/New Horizons for about 6 weeks in 1998. I saw Roger at least once, never met him in person, BUT... he DID prank call me once while I was manning the phones at the front desk. Add that to my meager claims to fame!
I don't think I've seen 10 movies he directed
1 The Masque of the Red Death
2 The Fall of the House of Usher
3 The Magic Voyage of Sinbad
4 The Raven
5 Gunslinger :buggedout:
6 Tales of Terror
I wonder how many of these Andrew got through.....
There's no way I can narrow a list down to ten.
Quote from: chainsaw midget on May 13, 2024, 09:30:57 AM
There's no way I can narrow a list down to ten.
IKR.
I cheated & posted twelve...
It gets difficult when you start thinking about it too much. He did a lot of producing and executive producing.
I will always have a spot for "Day the World Ended" because it terrified me as a child. The scene where a claw retrieves a dead rabbit from a trap gave me nightmares.
In no particular order, besides alphabetical:
Battle Beyond the Stars
Carnosaur
Day the World Ended
Death Race 2000
Forbidden World
Galaxy of Terror
It Conquered the World
Little Shop of Horrors
Sorceress
Welcome to Planet Earth
:smile: Good to hear from you again! :smile:
Quote from: Andrew on May 31, 2024, 08:02:47 PM
It gets difficult when you start thinking about it too much. He did a lot of producing and executive producing.
I will always have a spot for "Day the World Ended" because it terrified me as a child. The scene where a claw retrieves a dead rabbit from a trap gave me nightmares.
In no particular order, besides alphabetical:
Battle Beyond the Stars
Carnosaur
Day the World Ended
Death Race 2000
Forbidden World
Galaxy of Terror
It Conquered the World
Little Shop of Horrors
Sorceress
Welcome to Planet Earth
Wonderful to see you around.
Nice list; I was hoping it would include
NOT OF THIS EARTH (the original) which terrified me as a child!
I had a heck of a time deciding on some titles. A few were musts, but a mix for the last few spots were hard to decide. I think these were all the mix, and I decided to pick silly fantasy and blood-soaked comedy with Sorceress and Welcome to Planet Earth.
Sorceress
Welcome to Planet Earth
Attack of the Crab Monsters
Attack of the Giant Leeches
Not of This Earth
Piranha
Quote from: Andrew on June 01, 2024, 08:50:20 PM
I had a heck of a time deciding on some titles. A few were musts, but a mix for the last few spots were hard to decide. I think these were all the mix, and I decided to pick silly fantasy and blood-soaked comedy with Sorceress and Welcome to Planet Earth.
Sorceress
Welcome to Planet Earth
Attack of the Crab Monsters
Attack of the Giant Leeches
Not of This Earth
Piranha
:buggedout: :buggedout:
Andrew returned :cheers: :cheers:
Hi there, Andrew! Thanks for this great website! :cheers:
Quote from: Andrew on May 31, 2024, 08:02:47 PM
It gets difficult when you start thinking about it too much. He did a lot of producing and executive producing.
I will always have a spot for "Day the World Ended" because it terrified me as a child. The scene where a claw retrieves a dead rabbit from a trap gave me nightmares.
In no particular order, besides alphabetical:
Battle Beyond the Stars
Carnosaur
Day the World Ended
Death Race 2000
Forbidden World
Galaxy of Terror
It Conquered the World
Little Shop of Horrors
Sorceress
Welcome to Planet Earth
Welcome, Andrew 😊😊😊😊😊🙏🙏🙏🐢🐢
Hard to tell. Corman didn't always aim for quality, but he has his share of classics. Years ago I would have singled out his Edgar Allan Poe films, but the last ones I saw were "The St. Valentine's Day Massacre" and "Von Richthofen and Brown". I enjoyed both of them much more than I had expected.
Picking among the stuff he produced is even harder, there's just too much of it. I'm partial to "Battle beyond the stars", "Humanoids from the Deep" and "Forbidden World", though.