Showing posts with label Roger Corman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roger Corman. Show all posts
11/2/09
The Fall of the House of Usher
Edgar Allan Poe, Roger Corman, Vincent Price. A trio of terror, and perfect together!
Corman's Fantastic Four
Weird that this film was never released. Could it really have been worse than the Jessica Alba film?
9/15/09
Dementia 13
Roger Corman is noted for having guided many filmmakers who later became successful. The two most famed are Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola.
But only Coppola's debut film, Dementia 13, is considered anything to write home about. It's a Gothic film surrounding a deranged family and mysterious deaths.
So, yet another freeby for Cinemension fans, courtesy of the public domain:
But only Coppola's debut film, Dementia 13, is considered anything to write home about. It's a Gothic film surrounding a deranged family and mysterious deaths.
So, yet another freeby for Cinemension fans, courtesy of the public domain:
9/14/09
The Last Woman On Earth
One of my fave Roger Corman films is The Last Woman On Earth.
Many similar apocalyptic tales have existed, but this one has always stuck with me. Perhaps it's because I first saw it in a theater, a matinee at one of the local theaters growing u[p. I think the owner let me see it for free because I did some stuff for him. Those were the days!
And, while it's not a masterpiece, it is better than expected, partly because it has a decent screenplay, written by Robert Towne, who'd later pen Roman Polanski's Chinatown.
Note how the film opens at a cockfight in Puerto Rico. One of the things that often made cheapo films like this, shot in the 50s and 60s, so interesting is how there would be little moments like this that Hollywood would never show. Only in foreign films and B films would such non-clean realities exist. Think of a film like The Wages Of Fear, also.
This sort of realistic depiction of life, even if often hamfistedly handled, related to me, much in the same way a cartoon like Fat Albert did, since it was the only cartoon that showed poor and black people.
Anyway, before I veer into a sociological tract, enjoy the whole film, for free, courtesy of a lapsed copyright.
Watch:
Many similar apocalyptic tales have existed, but this one has always stuck with me. Perhaps it's because I first saw it in a theater, a matinee at one of the local theaters growing u[p. I think the owner let me see it for free because I did some stuff for him. Those were the days!
And, while it's not a masterpiece, it is better than expected, partly because it has a decent screenplay, written by Robert Towne, who'd later pen Roman Polanski's Chinatown.
Note how the film opens at a cockfight in Puerto Rico. One of the things that often made cheapo films like this, shot in the 50s and 60s, so interesting is how there would be little moments like this that Hollywood would never show. Only in foreign films and B films would such non-clean realities exist. Think of a film like The Wages Of Fear, also.
This sort of realistic depiction of life, even if often hamfistedly handled, related to me, much in the same way a cartoon like Fat Albert did, since it was the only cartoon that showed poor and black people.
Anyway, before I veer into a sociological tract, enjoy the whole film, for free, courtesy of a lapsed copyright.
Watch:
8/15/09
Paul Naschy Lives!
When I was a child, my friends and I would often sneak into local theaters during late summer mornings or early afternoons. Back then, many theaters were open 24 hours, to try to maximize profits. Sometimes we'd outright sneak in, and other times we'd do little errands for the theater owners to get in, especially for skin flicks and horror crap.
Back then, the crap that ran in off hours was usually B film detritus- Toho monster flicks, Ray Harryhausen flicks, soft to hard core porno, Hammer horror films, AIP-Roger Corman crapola, and, if lucky, stuff with monsters and chicks.
Enter Paul Naschy and the films he scripted.
Naschy was the king of Spanish exploitation and horror films. Many of them showed nudity, too!
Imagine being a six or seven year old in the early 70s, and seeing stuff like that.
Well, recently I saw a boxed set of Naschy films really cheap at a Half Price Books store, and given the decades intervening, will savor my watching of the films.
Anyway, here is a clip of the films in the Naschy boxed set:
And, if you wanna find out more about the grand man himself, check out his website: http://www.naschy.com/
Back then, the crap that ran in off hours was usually B film detritus- Toho monster flicks, Ray Harryhausen flicks, soft to hard core porno, Hammer horror films, AIP-Roger Corman crapola, and, if lucky, stuff with monsters and chicks.
Enter Paul Naschy and the films he scripted.
Naschy was the king of Spanish exploitation and horror films. Many of them showed nudity, too!
Imagine being a six or seven year old in the early 70s, and seeing stuff like that.
Well, recently I saw a boxed set of Naschy films really cheap at a Half Price Books store, and given the decades intervening, will savor my watching of the films.
Anyway, here is a clip of the films in the Naschy boxed set:
And, if you wanna find out more about the grand man himself, check out his website: http://www.naschy.com/
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