The King of the B's is dead-long live the king!
In these pages Roger Corman, the most successful independent filmmaker in Hollywood relates his experiences as the director and/or producer of such low-budget classics Attack of the Crab Monsters, The Little Shop of Horrors, The Raven, The Man with the X-ray Eyes, The Wild Angels, The Trip, Night Call Nurses, Bloody Mama, Piranha, and many others. He also discusses his distribution of the Bergman, Fellini, and Truffaut movies that later won Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Film category. Corman alumni--John Sayles, Martin Scorsese, Jack Nicholson, Vincent Price, Francis Ford Coppola, Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Fonda, Joe Dante, and Jonathan Demme, among others--contribute their recollections to give added perspective to Corman's often hilarious, always informative autobiography.
If you grew up in Brooklyn in the 60s you probably spent Saturday afternoons at the RKO Kenmore watching these flicks as I did.
THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
A clumsy young man working at an impoverished flower shop discovers that the strange plant he has been nurturing has an insatiable appetite for blood, forcing him to kill to feed it.
21 Year old Jack Nicholson made his film debut in this film and frequently worked with Corman.
Bloody Mama
Shelley Winters is a psychologically disturbed matriarch who presides over her damaged family of bank-robbing misfits that includes Robert De Niro.
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
A violently entertaining film that might be called B+ with a cast that features Jason Robards, Ralph Meeker and George Segal.
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