Cult Trailers: Roger Corman

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Saturday, October 13, 2012

Fighting Mad (1976)

Directed by Jonathan Demme

Produced by Roger Corman

Starring Peter Fonda, Gino Franco and Harry Northup

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Friday, August 10, 2012

Crime Zone (1989)

Directed by Luis Llosa

Produced by Roger Corman

Starring David Carradine, Sherilyn Fenn and Peter Nelson

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Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Directed by Thierry Notz.

Starring George Kennedy and Andrew Stevens.

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This is the Roger Corman-produced take on "Alien" that probably blew its entire budget on the rubber monster and one good sci-fi set.

I always seem to like movies starring George Kennedy, whether it's classic Hollywood fare like Cool Hand Luke or Canadian tax-shelter films like Death Ship.

The lack of a voice-over hurts this trailer a little (maybe they couldn't afford it!) but it's packed with some decent monster beast chaos and a respectable burning man stunt.

Friday, March 27, 2009

Double Bill! The Velvet Vampire (1971) w/ Scream Of The Demon Lover (1970)

Velvet Vampire

Directed by Stephanie Rothman.

Starring Michael Blodgett and Sherry Miles.

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Scream of the Demon Lover

Directed by José Luis Merino.

Starring Erna Schürer.

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A great double-feature trailer from two obscure early-70's cheapie horror films.

Scream of the Demon Lover was a European film called Ivanna brought into American distribution by Roger Corman's New World Pictures and Velvet Vampire is a largely forgotten American film produced by Charles Swartz who was the head of production at Corman's company.

I'm not sure of the origins of this trailer but seeing that they were both Corman entities, these two films were probably screened back to back at some drive-ins at the time.

Humanoids from the Deep (1980)

Directed by Barbara Peters.

Starring Vic Morrow.

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Another bizzare entry from the extensive Roger Corman-produced catalogue that revolves around pollution created fish-men rising from the water to mate with human women!

Barbara Peters, who directed another Cult Trailers favourite "Bury Me An Angel", was fired from this movie by Corman after she refused to shoot additional footage of the monsters attacking some young women in an effort to get more nudity in the film.

Vic Morrow would go on to star in two movies by one of my personal favourite directors, Enzo G. Castellari, in "The Last Shark" and "1990: Bronx Warriors" over the next two years before being killed in an accident on the set of the "Twilight Zone" film during a segment being directed by John Landis.