How I Made A Hundred Movies In Hollywood by Roger Corman

Jackson, Gale Anne Hurd, James Cameron, Jonathan Kaplan and Jack Hill. The latter two were produced by Corman's own production company, New World Pictures which is now known as 'New Horizons.'Ĭorman has worked with several now-famous directors and producers and his list of proteges include Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Donald G. Price starred in all of these except Premature Burial.Ĭorman's other notable films include The Intruder (1962), Frankenstein Unbound (1990), Death Race 2000 (1975) and the Joe Dante film Piranha (1978). Together with Matheson, he wrote and directed House of Usher (1960), The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), The Premature Burial (1962), Tales of Terror (1962) The Raven (1963), The Masque of the Red Death (1964) and The Tomb of Ligeia (1964). He mostly in collaborated with writer/scenarist Richard Matheson and actor Vincent Price. In his 'golden years,' Corman was making seven films a year. He made his first film Five Guns West in 1955. He received an industrial engineering degree from Stanford University, but immediately began his film career after college in 1953 as a producer and screenwriter. He has directed several low-budget movies which have earned him critical acclaim such as his cycle of films derived from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe as well as The Little Shop of Horrors.Ĭorman was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1926.

Roger Corman is known as the 'King of the Bs' as he has directed a series of B-grade movies since 1955.

How I Made A Hundred Movies In Hollywood by Roger Corman