"Delightful . . . an engrossing oral history . . . As an enthusiastic ode to colorful, seat-of-your-pants filmmaking, this one's hard to beat." — Booklist (starred review)"Fantastic—a treasure." —Stephen KingC rab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses is an outrageously rollicking account of the life and career of Roger Corman—one of the most prolific and successful independent producers, directors, and writers ...

Roger Corman began producing low-budget films in 1954 and soon started directing the following year. Since then, he's produced over 500 films and directed 55. He's best known for his ability to create a movie with a tiny budget, within a very short timeframe, with ridiculous limitations, and still turn in a completed, entertaining piece. He once shot an entire studio film in 2-1/2 days between other commitments. Although he directed many films in many genres spanning decades, he's most ass...

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER, THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM, PREMATURE BURIAL, TALES OF TERROR, THE HAUNTED PALACE, THE RAVEN, MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, THE TOMB OF LIGEIA… Produced on modest budgets for American International Pictures, Roger Corman's adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe stories were popular in their time as escapist horror cinema. Most starred horror icon Vincent Price and were written (and “freely adapted”) by the likes of Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont and Robert Towne. Today...

"For anyone interested in the true history of New World Pictures, this is a fascinating book. I know it's true because I was there and part of it, and I know most of the people interviewed. Roger and New World were a unique outfit that only comes once in a lifetime!"– Miller Drake (visual effects editor, Green Lantern, True Lies)In 1970, Roger Corman, the director of A Bucket of Blood (1959) and The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), launched his own fil...

Revue Ciné-Bazar n°5 - Entretiens et interviewsArticle. Don Johnson, l’homme et la bête : A Boy and His Dog (Mathieu Germain)Dossier Jean-Pierre MockyEntretien Jean-Pierre MockyArticle. Réflexions d’un ex-chasseur de gueules (Christophe Bier)Article. Sexe, sang et stupeur. Quand Paul Naschy revisitait le Moyen Âge (Yohann Chanoir)Dossier Roger CormanEntretien Roger CormanArticle....

In 1970, Roger Corman launched his film production-distribution company New World Pictures. Over the next thirteen years, he would supervise the creation and release of more than one-hundred films, including such low-budget classics as The Big Doll House (1971), Battle Beyond the Stars (1980) and Galaxy of Terror (1981). Shot through with entertaining anecdotes about the art—and the business—of making movies, Roger Corman's New World Pictures (1970-1983): An Oral History, Volume 2 features...

Parue en 1959 aux États-Unis et en 1960 en France, adaptée au cinéma par Roger Corman, une analyse aussi virtuose que glaçante de la montée du populisme pour un Vintage noir choc, qui n'a malheureusement pas perdu une once de son actualité.La petite ville sudiste de Caxton est déboussolée : l'arrêt de la Cour suprême vient de tomber ; désormais, les écoles publiques sont ouvertes aux enfants noirs. On s'étonne, on s'agace, et puis finalement on laisse faire.Jusqu'à l'arrivée ...

Il pozzo e il pendolo (The Pit and the Pendulum) è un racconto breve scritto da Edgar Allan Poe e pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1842.La storia ha un notevole effetto nell'ispirare paura nel lettore, a causa della particolare attenzione dedicata alle percezioni sensoriali, come il suono, che ne enfatizzano il realismo. Ciò rappresenta un elemento di discontinuità con le altre storie di Poe, che spesso fanno uso di elementi soprannaturali.(Fonte Wikipedia)Tutti i testi co...