The Corman Film School (new window) has a damned impressive list of alumni. I don't think there's a director in the entire history of film that can get more bang for the buck than Corman. Maybe Russ Meyer but his work is more genre specific

The original Death Race 2000 is a classic. Cherry 2000 was good camp ruined by Melanie Griffith, who can't act and never will.

DAMN YOU SHARKTOPUS!!!

Never saw the appeal for guys like this or Ed Wood. Same goes for John Waters. Are they deliberately trying to make bad movies or are they just saving money and hiring people that have no skill?

Bluemookie: Never saw the appeal for guys like this or Ed Wood. Same goes for John Waters. Are they deliberately trying to make bad movies or are they just saving money and hiring people that have no skill?

Ed Wood just wanted to make movies. He didn't really care about quality as long as he got *something* on film. John Waters is being deliberately trash and campy. You could give the man a budget of $100 million and he'd still make the same kind of film. Ed Wood was a dedicated amateur; Waters is a guerilla film maker.

A Corman movie is campy fun, and you will not learn anything at all. Unlike you effete hipster douchebags with your 500 Days of Summer or that flick where the two gay guys go to California wine country to pursue ugly stupid broads who are shallower than they are.

nakedcritic: DAMN YOU SHARKTOPUS!!!

What?

Sybarite: His magnum opus.

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I think of all his films, "X, The Man With X-Ray Eyes" is the most thought provoking.

Mugato: Bluemookie: Never saw the appeal for guys like this or Ed Wood. Same goes for John Waters. Are they deliberately trying to make bad movies or are they just saving money and hiring people that have no skill?

The first two are guys who love movies who might not have the skill or the money to make them but they make them anyway. There's no excuse for John Waters.

There always has to be that *ONE* in every field of endeavor. John Waters is that one.

Still one of my all time favorites...

Ssomeone needs to take all his movies and stick them on some $500 combo pack to end all combo packs. I'd spend real money to get all his shiat in one pack.

quiotu: Still one of my all time favorites...

I have never paid attention to Corman's poster art. Are all of them worse than 70's pulp scifi book covers.

Sybarite: His magnum opus.

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The Real Don Steele elevated that movie to "awesome."

Sybarite: His magnum opus.

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I think Masque of the Red Death is his best

So what do we need in B movies?

1) Octopus/Kraken
2) Good looking actors/actresses who lose clothing inexplicably and who have terrible dialogue
3) An expository device; usually must be infirmed in some way(old, blind, paralyzed, something.)
4) plotholes (some may be the size of texas.)
5) Cliche dialogue.
6) Predictable events.

Mix with 1/3 cup of time travel, 1/4 cup of mutation(or genetics lab accident), let simmer in a dystopian future.

Sybarite: His magnum opus.

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Sorry, there's no beating THIS

Even the ship HAS TITS on it

Gergesa: So what do we need in B movies?

1) Octopus/Kraken
2) Good looking actors/actresses who lose clothing inexplicably and who have terrible dialogue
3) An expository device; usually must be infirmed in some way(old, blind, paralyzed, something.)
4) plotholes (some may be the size of texas.)
5) Cliche dialogue.
6) Predictable events.

Mix with 1/3 cup of time travel, 1/4 cup of mutation(or genetics lab accident), let simmer in a dystopian future.

Wow, I actually learned something on Fark today. Never heard the word expository before.

Always wondered why those Bond villans always explain their plans in detail before the overly complicated way of killing him.

This isn't the idiot behind Titanic 2 is it?

I worked on the following Corman movies: Black Scorpion, Black Scorpion 2, Not Like Us, Not Of This Earth (uncredited), Carnosaur 3, and Sea Wolf. Good times working for the little studio in Venice.

The only real bad part was the second-rate stunt coordinator who nearly got me killed on two separate occassions. If ever there was an example of "Hey, y'all watch this" type of attitude, it was that guy.

The trick with Corman was he hired good directors for little to no pay, but gave them a lot of creative control on set. But they had to stick with the script that was given to them.

If you want to break in to movies, or need a few side jobs during down time, Corman movies are the way to go.

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Hey it's the kid from the After School special and The Matrix.

Bluemookie: Never saw the appeal for guys like this or Ed Wood. Same goes for John Waters. Are they deliberately trying to make bad movies or are they just saving money and hiring people that have no skill?

Wood just wanted to make movies, despite having no skills or understanding. The appeal is looking into one man's head at what constitutes a movie and thinking about what he did wrong. More entertaining than any of the Star Wars prequels. Watch Glen or Glenda then Depp in Ed Wood for a fun evening.

Waters made his name shocking people back when it was possible to get arrested for it. He's a competent director with a strong focus on sleaze and trash and so had very few competitors. Polyester is my favorite and is relatively safe.

Corman makes money. His movies with Vincent Price were as good as most of the major studios output at the time but they were MUCH cheaper. Recycled sets, costumes, actors, effects, short shooting schedules, new talent. The previously mentioned Masque of the Red Death and X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes are my favorites. Sharktopus was disappointing which makes me wonder if he's contributing any more than his name these days.

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Corman was responsible for this too? Good Lord.

IIRC the studio had to make a movie or lose the rights. They didn't want to/couldn't spend a lot of money so they hired Corman and gave him 1 million to crank out an FF movie as quickly as possible. It was never meant to be released.

Battle Beyond the Stars is a great example of how Corman launched so many careers: look at the cast and the screenwriter, editor, score composer, and SFX coordinator....

Corman's bio is fascinating: starting as an accountant, he brought a new style of cost control theory to film making, and he sort of pioneered the idea of leveraging the budget and sets and locations of one movie to help the next. If he went to Hawaii, by god he was going to make three movies on the budget of one while there.

Little shop of Horrors was sort of made on a bet: Studio rental guy tells Corman there's a soundstage sitting unused with 2 day's rental all paid up on it. He can basically use it free over the weekend, if he has a movie ready. The paint was still wet on the walls and the ink was barely dry on the hastilly-cobbled-together script when Seymore enters the flower shop and history. Because the film is really just one location, it converted to a stage play quite easily and cheaply, and that's where it really got legs and eventually was remade with a real budget, as a musical.

Man, Corman's filmography is simply incredible; he directs more films in a month than most directors do in a lifetime:

1964

The Simplex Complex

1967

Corn: the Ear of Plenty

1969

Groovy Hippie Slumber Party
Free Love For Sale
Psychedelic Elevator
Brothers Divided
Mondo World
The Young Hip Ocrites
The Mod, Mod Miniskirt

1970

The Student Coeds
The President Wore a Bikini
The Peacenik Orgy
Bummer, Ma'am
Teenage Flag Burners
Suburban Peepers
Pig Busters
Hillbilly Slip Around
Panic Grass
331/3 Sexual Revolutions

1971

LSD Day
The Naughty Swingers
Meter Reader Lolita
One-Eyed Wink
Sock it to the Man
Hot Pants Hoedown
The Evil Membrane
Luv Canal
His'n' Hers 'n' His
Papa Woody!
The Eco Angels

1972

Teenie Weenie Bikini Beach
Squished
Draft Dodger
Lawn Honkie
Crazy Dragonbreath: The Forgettin' Tibetan
Shindig Motel
Strong, Hard and Black
The Free Riders (Chico and Chaco)
The Well-Marbled Goddess
Itty-Bitty FrigiditySympathetic Vibrations
Diaper Service
Peace Zombies

1973

The Moistening
Kung Funk:The Funky Fu
World War III
Biorhythm Method
PUI
Day Glo Decolletage
Leagalize It
Der Ubergoober
Brothers Under the Covers
The Pollenators
Blood Haze
Neat But Not Clean
Amazon Hot Box
Giant Rabbit, Run!
Destination Shroom!
Bald Justice

1974

Plain Ole Pud
Draft Dodger II: Makin' Canadian Bacon
Hollywood Squares: The Movie
Kung Funk II: The Spooky Fu
Coven of the Witchiness
American Flesh
Our Gas Line Affair
Kidnap Those Kooks
Chick with Hicks
I am Curious...You are Yellow
The Harlem Globetrotters Meet the Black Panthers
Giant Crab, Run!
Roachclip Motel
Venus De Mofo
Romeo A Go-Go
Buddy Cops: Bookworm and Garter Snake
The True Life Historical Search (for Genuine Real Stuff in the Bibile)
Carnaval of Mutants
Giant Rabid Dog, Run!

1975

Kent State Nurses
What Planet is this? (Oh my God It's Earth!)
The Wrath of the Sabine Women
Truckstop Nurses
White House Crooks
CBBC (Citizen's Band Before Christ)
Pull My Finger
Brick shiathouse
Puberty County Line
Strong, Hard and Native American
What's Your Sign M'lady?
Kohoutek, Run!
Swig and Guzzle!
Smooth Move, Ex-Wife
Buddy Cops II: Hammerhead and Nailbiter
Life Spasm
Psycho Vet
BT Off a Zombie
Infection
Something Big's on Fire '75
Bigfoot, All-American
Gas, Grass or Ass
Pigeonholers
Assassin in a See-Though Blouse

1976

The Foxy Chocolate Robot
The Return to moonshine High
The Greatest Bicentennial American Patriot
Da Brothers Bump
Cage Full of Waitresses
Draft Dodger III: The Me Decade
Contact High School
Hot Mamarama
Three Times Fast
Unknown Epidemic, Run!
Metaphors are Like Dreames
Used Tissue of Lies
Wind and Rain and Wet T-shirts
Dirt Claude
Ten On a Couch
Buddy Cops III: Strawman and Firebrand
Fat, Dumb and Fuzzy
Sand in My Teddy
Sex Doctor to the Stars
Third Leg's a Charm
A Stranger Wears My Pants
Nuclear Nun
Wise and Foolish Vixens

1977

Psycho Vet II: The Reenlistment
Cattle Mutilation
Prescription for Justice
Tarzan of the Mall
Neurotica
Myhtomania
Steel Hog Hunger Rumbles
Dirt Road Blacktop
Similies are Dreams
Six-Chambered heart, Four-Chambered Gun
Go Tell It on the Mountain, Just Get the Hell Out of My House!
Normal Horny Norman
Ebony Fawn and Jade
Buddy Cops IV: Short Fuse and Long Hair
FLK (Funny-Lookin' Kid)
The Family Jeweler
Driving Under My Influence (in Hypnovision)
Saturday Night Fever Blister
Hot Buttered Fingers
Talkin Dirty to the Dead
Abra Cadaver
A Very Malcolm Xmas

1978

Nanny Hooteres Hootenanny
Recycled White Trash
World War III II
The Twin Ledgers of Justice.
Aerobicaphobia
Gin Blossom Special
"Bang!" (There I've Said It)
Pong: The Movie
Tora! Tora! Toga!
Shuda, Wuda, Cuda
Fudge Factor
Strong, Hard and Chicano
That Rascaly Mutt
Dying Kids
Cousin Bloodshot Buckshot
A Stiletto Affair
Buddy Cops V: Hayseed and Toughnut
Plumber's Little Helper
Esperanto Girls
Baby Booty, Booty Baby
Where to, BrutE
Punks Vs Jocks
We're fark.E.D.!

1979

Adolescent Sexopolis
Your Stepfather's Moustache
Lover is a Five Letter Word
Hot Justice in Less Than Thirty Minutes (pizza franchises as heroes)
Disco Incantations
Uncle Tomboy
Dying Kids II: The Plague
Summer Buds (for women)
Summer Buds (for men)
Banyard of Hate
Marry Me Heels
Buddy Cops VI: Milquetoast and Honey
Love Hears Everything
Fireball
Pigtails
Pants Full of Ambition
Keeping Secretions
Jungle Freaks
S-E-X That Spells Sex!

1980

Hearty Old Truths and Truthful Old Whores
The Earth Movers
The Devil Needs a Drink
Asylum of Angels
Victoria's Principles and Secrets
One Million Years AD
The Justice League of Superfreaks
The Love Bombardier
Dying Kids III: Schoolbus Full of Donor Hearts
The Bodacious Oasis
Buddy Cops VII: Flatfoot and Higheel
Boy Eats Girl
Did you Feel That?
Starrign the Braless Cloggers
Andy Opia: The Lazy Private Eye
Pencils Down!
Chunk of Change
Monster Truck Monster
He Bites!

1981

I See London, I See France
Casting Out Nines
Nazis of the Third Reich
Hooked on Classics-the Movie
A Tempting Fate
Solid Gold Dancer Murders
Alpha Omega and Pinky
The Ominous Attic
A Filthy Masquerade
Rock n' Roll Golem
Festering Destiny
The Despot Removers
Calamari
The Arouser
(Steam Rises at) The Hup Swamp
Throb
Trolling Stone Sober
Whale of A Cop
Nocturnal Suspicions

1982

Sick Gloria's Transit
Sammy Davis junior high
Don't Pick at It
The Pagan Gladiators
Hello, Me!
Undercover Monk
The French Method
The Tender Gender-Bender's Agenda
Priaprism Diary
Undulations
The Dirty-Minded Dozen
Death Toll: Turnpike of Destruction
Laughing Till I Hurt You
Joan of Arkansas
Larg Angry Antennae
Wallets an Groins
UFO Barbers
Aromarama
The Mummy Blushes

1983

Psycho Vet III: Assignment Grenada
I Say!
Right to Live, Left to Die
The Pulverizer
Feelin' Your First One
Madam Madman
Strong, Hard and Vietnamese
Muff
Two Humans
The Telltale Sheet
King Kong Christmas
Serrations
Forsaking No Others
Acupuncture Academy
Madam, I'm Adam
Pitbulls vs Piranhas [animated]
Which Way to the Money?
The Savage Rebel Savages
Heil, Titler!

1984

Christ for the Defense
Lottery of Doom
Shaft Canary
II Madam, I'm Adam II
The Man in the Iron Lung
Stop it, You
Cannibalistic Missiles
The Rupture
Hip-Hopocratic Oaths
AKA Dickweed
Jazzercide
Two Humans II: The Humid Humus
A Lick and a Promise
Fistula
A Single Shard of Mercy
Philosophy of Desire
Acupuncture Academy II: Pointy, Pointy, Pointy!
E, Teen
The Grounded Stewardesses
Sweet Sinews of Grief
You Killed My Partner, Now I Want Revenge
Cheerleader Camp Massacre

1985

The Grounded Stewardesses II: Snowed in at Lake Tahoe
Lower Education
Camisole man
Three Ho' Punchout
Street Value of Seduction
The Long Tongue of Memory
Abrupt Reclosure
Ablation!
Blackout (European title: Noir)
Big Burning Boat
The Terrorarium
In the Eyes of the Apes
Arrows and Quivers
Get Down, Moses
The Mini Computer Wore a Miniskirt

1986

Thong Monster
Akimbo Drumbeat
Teachers vs Students
Attack and Decay
Death's Black Beemer
Aboriginal Sins
The Vile Turn-On
Dear God, No!
Perpetration
The Phantasy Cult
Thicker Than Blood
This Constipated Earth
Heather, Tethered
Nude Cop
The Grounded Stewardesses III: Mechanical Failure in Rio
Ten Million Ways to Die
Dreams, Wet and Arid
Celebrate for the Hell of It

1987

K9 Bone Patrol
The Grammar of Longing
1-900-TABOOO
Twelve Angry Men and a Baby
Eden for Hedonists
Requiem for a Babysitter
Lascivious Neighborhood
Strong, Hard and Hmong
Geographical Bachelors
The Grounded Stewardesses IV: Extended Layover in Miami
Large , Natural Laughs
To Hell in a Picnic Basket
Star Light and Coffee Black
Safeword Abductions
Trauma, Blunt Trauma
The French (They Are a Funny Race)
Planet Perverted

1988

The Heart is a Strong Muscle
Drive By Drive In
Elephant Walk
Searching for L'Ptotomaine
Love is the Right to Leave
I Do, Adieu
RoboHomo
Gladland
Splattered Plate of Urges
The Moon's White Torso
A Tube of Forgiveness
Rogue Mime, The Taoist Tattooist
A Grounded Stewardess Christmas
The Man With Two Things

1989

Dracula Lambada
B.F. DeeDee
I Smell London, I Smell France
Executrix
Temblor!
Insignificant Others
Sans-a Belt Slackers
The Electrocutioner
Unnecessary Roughage
Perchance to Nightmare
Dead Cat Bounce
Thai Food Mary

1990

Supermodel Carnival
The Decapitators
Psycho Vet IV: Panama
That's President Draft-Dodger to You!
The Temptation Game
Asphalt By Candlelight
The Violet Catastrophe
Squall!
Compassion Fatigues
Herm Aphrodite: God and Goddess of Love
Oh, Flagrat Fragrance! Oh, Pungent Unguent!
Tantric or Treat
The Uncensored History of Revealing Swimwear

1991

You're Only Worth on Bullet
The Ignoble Calculations of Mme. F. and Her Pimp
A Grounded Stewardess Reunion
Pomegranate An Extended Metaphor
Desert Psycho Vet
Hollywood's Private Personalized Plates
Aromatherapy Execution
My People are Naked
Song of the Pitiful
Vicissitudes of Wickedness
Fluff Pulp Babe
Supermodel Carnival II: Runaway Runways
Secrets the Mouth Won't Tell

1992

Metal of Generation X
Def 2 Da Noiz
Draft Doger Meets Psycho Vet
DOA Hole
Obsessionary Income
Thrill Collector
Requesting Network Attention
First lady Chatterly
Rap Riot
Supermodel Carnival III: Adam and Evil
The Whole Story of America

1993

Amateur Faces of Death
A Man, A Woman and a Deck of Cards
Psycho Vet Meets Hercules
Consortium and Loss
Duh 'n' Ruh
Two-handed Solitaire
Hot Squat
Uncle Sampire
Who Got the Soul Clap?

1994

Deep Bruise
Prickly Heat
The Sad Forehead in My Mirror
Large Bore Killers
Highest and Best Use

1995

Dessican Sky
The Spanking Machine

1996

Learn to Paint with Morty Fineman
Learn to Cook with Morty Fineman
Learn to Make Love with Morty Fineman

1997

Arivederci, Morty
Virtual Wife

1998

The Desert of Small Dreams
Tattoo II: Pierced By An Angel

2000

Ms. Kevorkian.

More astounding; apparently but for one film, every Corman film made a profit. Every one except for one, in a career spanning decades. The great bulk of them were... what's the word.... not good. But people keep watching them.

fairly decent movie about homeless punk rock kids...