Roger Corman, Pioneering Independent Producer and King of B Movies, Dies at 98

Variety ^ | 5/11/2024 | Richard Natale, Tim Gray

[Borges]

Legendary B-movie king Roger Corman, who directed and produced hundreds of low-budget films and discovered such future industry stars as Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, has died. He was 98.

[Chode]

LOL, really? well maybe you’re more of a SHARKTOPUS VS. PTERACUDA type guy...

An American scientist creates a half-pterodactyl, half-barracuda creature, Pteracuda, which inevitably escapes, leaving the Sharktopus to stop it and save the world.

SHARKTOPUS VS. PTERACUDA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9sGF7aYTYc

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

I’ve never seen “It Conquered the World” but I know about it from the monologue before Frank Zappa’s “Cheepnis” song on the “Roxy and Elsewhere” album. He talks about the 2x4 that can be seen pushing the monster out of the cave.

[MikeSteelBe]

I think he did “Death Race 2000”.

[BipolarBob]

Not to be confused with this guy.

[Political Junkie Too]

"Wife On Roger Corman" will be in theaters near you for the Labor Day weekend.

In SmelloVision!

-PJ

[Jane Long]

LOL ... Hedley Lamar.

[montag813]

I think he did “Death Race 2000”.

He did produce it. And I wonder if George Lucas borrowed the look for Carradine's "Frankenstein" for "Darth Vader" 2 years later.

[jocon307]

RIP! Good scoop Borges!

[Kartographer]

I remember that movie we had to watch it in Hygiene Class wnen I was a teen.

[Ciaphas Cain]

Eat My Dust!, 1976 Corman-produced film starring Ron Howard. If this movie didn't launch the "hot pursuit" genre that gave us Smokey and the Bandit and The Dukes of Hazzard, it certainly helped!

[sushiman]

My fave Corman film was Not Of This Earth .

[jimfree]

Maybe that’s the answer.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

His Dunwitch Horror(1970) was so bad I wanted two hours of my life back. It had none of the horror of the story by H.P. Lovecraft. A real waste of time.

[Johnny Wumbo]

Rock ‘n’ Roll High School with the Ramones
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_%27n%27_Roll_High_School

[sphinx]

Attack of the Crab Monsters scarred me for life.

RIP.

[Captain Peter Blood]

Corman always said all his movies made money and he actually did some A list pictures also. Jack Nicholson said leaned everything about the movie business from Roger, even down to negotiating contracts and I read Jack always did his own contracts.