Scanlines

"...exactly what Peter Fonda does in The Trip (D: Roger Corman, 1967; with Peter Fonda, Susan Strasberg, Bruce Dern)...."

Aug. 14, 1998 Screens Feature

Hypnotic

Robert Rodriguez and Ben Affleck team up for a pulpy mindbender

"...lover of the C-movie, the kind of filmmaker that Roger Corman would have adored. Hypnotic has that run-and-gun energy,..."

May 12, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Becky

Because sometimes you just have to deal with a few neo-Nazis the old-fashioned way

"...True, Becky is a little more Roger Corman schlock than Jeremy Saulnier's twisted masterpiece, but that..."

June 5, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Bacurau

Brazilian drama mixes social commentary and exploitation action

"...something gorier, more hard-boiled, and much more reminiscent of Roger Corman than of Luis Buñuel. Much like Zobel with..."

March 27, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

It Comes at Night

A lean, mean descent into primitive tribalism

"...of the Living Dead with the locked-door tension of Roger Corman’s Day the World Ended and a febrile case..."

June 9, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Crimson Peak

Guillermo del Toro goes Gothic, but falls short

"...the far-lower-budgeted but no less effective visual tropes of Roger Corman’s mid-Sixties Poe pics, Italian horror auteur Mario Bava’s..."

Oct. 16, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fantastic Four

Marvel not at this Fox flop

"...laughably entertaining, that was exec-produced by no less than Roger Corman and his New Horizons Pictures, that’s saying a..."

Aug. 14, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Furious 7

Furiouser and furiouser

"...dug the crazy shebang. Jacking the title from producer Roger Corman’s unremarkable 1955 noir, original director Rob Cohen’s origin..."

April 3, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tusk

Kevin Smith and his actors are fully invested in the sheer madness of this story.

"...between ferocity and camp, evoking Vincent Price in his Roger Corman era, and Long gives good wide-eyed panic in..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

Pompeii

A gladiator slave must rescue his secret love before Vesuvius erupts.

"...spitting distance of exploitation filmmaking's once and future king, Roger Corman, who genuinely leveled the cinematic playing field by..."

Feb. 28, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Location, Location, Location: Question Mark Over Fantastic Fest

Leading genre festival challenged over South Lamar construction

"...and the RZA, and a night with the mighty Roger Corman...."

March 18, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Piranha 3DD

Barely a step above a second-tier Troma film, this is one catch you'd do well to throw back.

"...the finest (and funniest) shockers produced under maverick producer Roger Corman's New World Pictures aegis. Shot in San Marcos..."

June 1, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Marvel's The Avengers

Excelsior! This Marvel adventure knocks it out of the universe.

"...bitterness. Fans of all that has come before (excluding Roger Corman's premature-ejaculation version of The Fantastic Four, natch) will..."

May 4, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Divide

This is an apocalyptic narrative about a group of people holed up in a bomb shelter who are under attack from biohazard baddies.

"...whole, dismal enterprise is just a cheap steal from Roger Corman's 1955 film Day the World Ended. At least..."

Jan. 13, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Pandorum

Two crew members wake up aboard a spaceship with no knowledge of their identities or their mission in this horror/science-fiction amalgam.

"...which it borrows heavily (along with The Descent and Roger Corman's Galaxy of Terror and many other, better films)..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Film News

News from Cannes and nearer climes

"...reported to have a $30 million budget. Aliens Attack, Roger Corman-Style!..."

May 22, 2009 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Wolverine is a noisy mess, full of Hugh Jackman's seriously killer snarl but utterly devoid of the borderline-subversive smarts that made Bryan Singer's X-Men films so resonant.

"...Entertainment to wash away the bad taste left by Roger Corman's disastrous attempt to bring The Fantastic Four to..."

May 8, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Two Lovers

Joaquin Phoenix (in what he claims is his last film role) stars as a nebbishy New Yorker caught between two very different women.

"...droopy Jonathan Haze, the iconic East Village schlemiel of Roger Corman's Little Shop of Horrors, ends up, when all..."

Feb. 27, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Humboldt County

This fine ensemble piece – thoughtful and cheering, even giddy in stabs – presents a seriocomic, sympathetic portrait of a pot-growing family operating along the coast of Northern California.

"...and Elaine May, much less Hal Ashby or even Roger Corman's countercultural biker broadsides. But the green, unassuming beauty..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

On the Road, From San Fran to Taipei

Two new film series bebop and globe-hop

"...innovatively pop-cultish "Scorpio Rising," B-movie king and low-budget-filmmaking guru Roger Corman's comic-horror flick A Bucket of Blood, and independent-filmmaking..."

March 28, 2008 Screens Feature by Raymond Blanton

Page Two

When Gravity Fails: Notes on the influence of Ed Lowry, 'Crazy Mama,' and not sweating the small stuff

"...is Jonathan Demme's second feature, forced upon him by Roger Corman 10 days before it was to start shooting,..."

Oct. 21, 2005 Column by Louis Black

KillSport

In KillSport, Spank Dance Company's latest, performers shoot, stab, bludgeon, and explode stuffed animals to satirize our lust for blood

"...by Andy Hadaway and inspired by, of all things, Roger Corman's cult B-movie Death Race 2000 – the story..."

April 1, 2005 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Killer Choreography

Ellen Bartel's blood-spattered new dance 'Killsport' mocks our love of the old ultraviolence

"...pedestrians. A product of the stable of B-movie emperor Roger Corman, the film was cranked out as disposable drive-in..."

March 18, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Valentín

Big-hearted Argentinean import sees life from a young boy's perspective.

"...close – and strident – resemblance to the late Roger Corman regular Myrtle Vail, whom certain of you may..."

July 16, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rock ’n’ Roll Drive-In With Mary Woronov

"...at 8pm and will be punctuated with lots of Roger Corman trailers. Classic cars from the Kontinentals Car Club..."

Nov. 13, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Resident Evil

Wild, senseless, sexy adaptation of the popular zombie shoot-'em-up video game

"...hybrid to make it to the American cineplex (the Roger Corman-produced Galaxy of Terror notwithstanding). It's as though Camille..."

March 15, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mr. Billion

"...featuring a host of cameos by regulars from the Roger Corman stable, where Kaplan learned his craft before hitting..."

Nov. 8, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Little Shop of Horrors: A Good Time Out of Joint

Zachary Scott Theatre Center's Little Shop of Horrors is a terrific staging of an endearingly weird musical.

"...you've got to know that I saw the original Roger Corman movie about 18 years ago, and the Ashman..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

American Pie 2

"...Directed by: James B. Rogers. Starring: Jason Biggs, Shannon Elizabeth, Mena Suvari, Tara Reid,..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bloody Angels

"...Hovik, Gaute Skegstad and Reidar Sorensen. No, it's not Roger Corman's “lost” sequel to The Wild Angels, though I'll..."

May 25, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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