The She-Creature (1956)
Jul 30, 2010Hypnotic Regression/Monster Movie
A strange mix of 1950s hypnotic regression fad and AIP B monster movie elements that has undeniable mood and verve
American International Pictures
Blood of Dracula (1957)
Jan 18, 2001Teenage Vampire
Producer Herman Cohen had great success with I Was a Teenage Werewolf and I Was a Teenage Frankenstein. Here he makes a teenage vampire film where a troubled teen is hypnotically regressed into becoming a vampire
Voodoo Woman (1957)
Feb 14, 2010Mad Scientist Creates Voodoo Monster
Low-budget AIP monster movie largely premised around rehashing the monster from The She-Creature and a cheap backlot jungle. Marla English plays for all she can and gives the film an undeniable vigour
Earth vs the Spider (1958)
Feb 1, 2001Giant Spider
Rather tatty effort in the 1950s giant bug cycle from director Bert I. Gordon who spent most of this era making similar films about big and small creatures and people
How to Make a Monster (1958)
Jan 16, 2010Makeup Artist Creates Monsters
After his assorted teenage monster films, producer Herman Cohen made this about a resentful studio makeup effects artist who takes revenge by using his makeups to turn teens into mind-controlled monsters
Night of the Blood Beast (1958)
Mar 19, 2020Astronaut Resurrected by Aliens
Roger Corman's brother produces a low-budget film that borrows a few leafs from The Quatermass Xperiment in its story of an astronaut who returns having been resurrected from the dead by alien invaders.
Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959)
Nov 17, 2010Giant Killer Leeches Amok
A typical 1950s B monster movie. The first half creates an entertainingly torrid drama in the bayous, although when they eventually turn up the giant leeches never get to do much
The House of Usher (1960)
Jun 20, 2012Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation
The first and best of Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe adapations with Vincent Price. Corman was piggybacking on the Gothic revival sparked by Hammer Films and creates a superbly brooding work that is the best adaptation of the story yet
Master of the World (1961)
Sep 12, 2009Victorian Airship Adventure/Jules Verne Adaptation
One amid the spate of Jules Verne adaptations of in the 50s/60s with Vincent Price as Robur, the inventor of an amazing airship
Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
Jul 17, 2012Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation/Deranged Nobleman
The second of Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe films with Vincent Price. This feels too much as though Corman was trying to make another House of Usher, nevertheless it creates its own thunderously overwrought atmosphere, even if it has little to do with the Poe story
Tales of Terror (1962)
Apr 14, 2001Edgar Allan Poe Anthology
The fourth of Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe films. This mixes it up slightly and adapts four Poe stories into three episodes, each of which stars Vincent Price
Journey to the Seventh Planet (1962)
Sep 3, 2002Planet of Illusions
A low-budget SF film that prefigures Solaris and displays some imagination as astronauts land on a planet to find familiar things recreated from their memories
Panic in Year Zero! (1962)
Apr 3, 1999Nuclear War/Ruthless Survivalism
A film about the outbreak of nuclear war directed by actor Ray Milland. What takes you aback is the naked liberatarian fantasy that Milland engages in, arguing in favour of a brutal ruthlessness in the name of survival
The Comedy of Terrors (1963)
Apr 1, 2001Murderous Morticians Comedy
Droll black comedy with Boris Karloff, Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Basil Rathbone as morticians who decide to drum up business by murdering people. This assembles much of the team behind the Roger Corman Edgar Allan Poe films
The Haunted Palace (1963)
Dec 15, 2002Possession/H.P. Lovecraft Adaptation
This was ostensibly another in Roger Corman's series of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations with Vincent Price possessed by his ancestor. This only borrows Poe's title and instead adapts an H.P. Lovecraft story.
Dementia 13 (1963)
Jan 31, 2003Psycho-Thriller
The second film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, a psycho-thriller made for Roger Corman where Coppola shows the glimmerings of style that made him a major director a decade later
X – The Man With X-Ray Eyes (1963)
May 9, 2001Scientist Develops X-Ray Vision
Great Roger Corman film in which Ray Milland is a scientist who invents a serum that allows him x-ray vision with disastrous consequences
Battle Beyond the Sun (1963)
Oct 21, 2007Space Expedition/Russian SF Film
One of Francis Ford Coppola's earliest films. Roger Corman has obtained rights to a Russian-made space expedition film and handed it over to Coppola who added a few extra scenes to repackage for US audiences
The Tomb of Ligeia (1964)
Oct 19, 2002Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation/Haunting
The eighth and last of Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe adaptations. Some claim this tale of possession by a late wife is the best but it feels an uninspired rehash of the plot elements from Corman's other Poe films.
The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
Feb 9, 2000Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation
The seventh of Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe adaptations and usually the best regarded. Vincent Price is at his most cruel and the film looks incredibly sumptuous thanks to a young Nicolas Roeg on camera
Pajama Party (1964)
Jul 31, 2024Beach Party Comedy with Martian Visitor
One of the popular Beach Party comedies of the 1960s. Tommy Kirk turns up as a bumbling Martian to romance Annette Funicello
Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965)
Apr 21, 2008Expedition to Venus/Russian SF Film
Roger Corman had a good deal of success in the 1960s by buying up footage from Soviet SF films, shooting English language inserts and reissuing them. Bar a handful of scenes with some Hollywood actors, this is almost the whole of the Russian film Storm Planet
Monster from the Surf (1965)
Jul 8, 2001Surfers vs Sea Monster
Another Z movie attempt to join the 1960s beach party movie fad with the additions of monsters that ends up being fairly ridiculous on all counts
Dr Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965)
Oct 16, 2000Mad Scientist/Spy Spoof
Very silly AIP comedy that parodies the massively popular James Bond films of the era, as well as features Vincent Price as the villain spoofing his appearances in the studio's Edgar Allan Poe films
Dr Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs (1966)
Jul 4, 2001Mad Scientist/Spy Spoof
Italian-made sequel to the campy Vincent Price starring Dr Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine. Directed by the usually great Mario Bava and overrun by the buffoonish clowning of Italian comics Franco and Ciccio
Queen of Blood (1966)
Mar 18, 2003Alien Vampire Woman
Another of Roger Corman's films reusing footage from Soviet SF films. Director Curtis Harrington gives the tale of a spaceship crew who bring on board an alien vampire woman an eerie otherworldliness
Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (1966)
Apr 20, 1999Jungle Hero
One of the best Tarzan films of the 1960s, the first starring US footballer Mike Henry. This goes to shoot in Mexico with Tarzan in search of a lost valley and plays the action with a fine gritty edge
The Trip (1967)
Aug 12, 2000LSD Trip
LSD film from Roger Corman featuring Peter Fonda, Bruce Dern and Dennis Hopper and full of hilariously surreal and trippily psychedelic moments
Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968)
Mar 20, 2009Expedition to Venus/Russian SF Film
Another Roger Corman film made up out of footage recycled from Russian SF films and pseudnonymously directed by a young Peter Bogdanovich in a rather silly plot about astronauts encountering dinosaur-worshipping women on Venus
Wild in the Streets (1968)
Jun 10, 2002Satiric Youth Revolution
Satiric 1960s Youth Revolution film where a rock star becomes US President, reduces the voting age and everyone over thirty is placed in a concentration camp
The Haunted House of Horror (1969)
Jul 8, 2005Old Dark House Thriller
The haunted part of the title is misleading but this is an attempt to update the Old Dark House thriller of the 1930s and 40s to the midst of Swinging 60s London and featuring a youth cast
Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968)
Aug 7, 2003Witch's Revenge
Dreary British occult film that wastes a great cast line-up, including Christopher Lee, Barbara Steele and an 82 year-old Boris Karloff in his last performance
De Sade (1969)
Apr 19, 2004Marquis de Sade Biopic
A Marquis de Sade biopic that was problem ridden behind the scenes. The result is an incoherent mess on screen that feels as though it is being handled by several different directors, each with a different idea about what is happening
The Dunwich Horror (1969)
Jun 30, 2001H.P. Lovecraft Adaptation/Occult Rituals
Adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft story in which Sandra Dee is lured by a young Dean Stockwell in order to summon Elder Gods. This seems like it has potential but befalls plodding, nondescript direction
The Oblong Box (1969)
Jan 5, 2001Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation
One of the films seeking to exploit the fad for Edgar Allan Poe adaptations started by Roger Corman in the 1960s. This has nothing to do with the Poe story and mostly shuffles around the familiar elements of the cycle
Count Yorga, Vampire (1970)
Sep 3, 2001Modern-Day Vampire
One of the better efforts among a spate of attempts to modernise the vampire that came out the 1970s. Robert Quarry gives a witty, urbane performance in the title role. A sequel followed.
Scream and Scream Again (1970)
Dec 20, 2001Mad Scientist/Android Takeover Conspiracy
Cult Anglo-horror film with a series of vampire killings that lead to Vincent Price trying to replace bureaucrats with androids
Cry of the Banshee (1970)
Aug 9, 2003Mysterious Stranger/Witch's Retribution
Dreary film in which Vincent Price is a magistrate who is haunted by a manifestation of The Devil for his witch persecutions. The publicity falsely tried to sell this as an Edgar Allan Poe adaptation.
The Vampire Lovers (1970)
Jun 19, 2001Lesbian Vampires/Hammer Film
The first in Hammer’s trilogy of lesbian vampire films, an adaptation of the classic story Carmilla. Unfortunately in Hammer’'s hands, the story’s subtlety is killed by an emphasis on softcore titillation
Gas; or It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It (1970)
Oct 19, 2002Hippie Post-Holocaust/Gonzo Satire
Satiric Roger Corman film in which a gas kills everyone in the world over the age of 25. Corman indulges his droll and surreal sense of humour in what amounts to a parody of his own films
The Abominable Dr Phibes (1971)
Apr 11, 1999Disfigued Madman's Campy Revenge
Droll, elegant camp masterpiece with Vincent Price giving the best performance of his life as a deformed madman employing the Biblical Plagues of Egypt as a motif to take revenge against the surgeons who killed his wife
The Return of Count Yorga (1971)
Aug 20, 2003Modern-Day Vampire
Count Yorga, Vampire was a minor success that started a spate of modern-day vampire films. This was a slightly lesser sequel that has the same droll wit but gets sidetracked in the middle sections
Dr Phibes Rises Again (1972)
Sep 29, 2001Disfigured Madman
Sequel to The Abominable Dr Phibes that brings back Vincent Price and seeks to replicate the same droll campy humour as before but with more mixed results this time
Blacula (1972)
Jul 11, 2000Blaxploitation Vampire Film
A hit among the Blaxploitation fad of the 1970s, this has the novelty of casting a vampire film with African-American actor William Marshall. A whole series of Blaxploitation takes on horror themes followed.
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972)
Oct 23, 2024Grand Old Dame Thriller
From the great and overlooked Curtis Harrington, a Grand Old Dames film with Shelley Winters going mad in the Baby Jane vein. This also becomes a modernised retelling of Hansel and Gretel
Frogs (1972)
Sep 14, 2002Nature's Revenge
Classic film from the 1970s Nature's Revenge fad with a group gathered for a party on an island finding that flora and fauna all around has become malevolent and turned against humanity
Madhouse (1974)
Jul 7, 2004Mad Horror Actor
An attempt to copy the Dr Phibes films with Vincent Price as a horror actor facing a series of killings on the set of his comeback film
Futureworld (1976)
Apr 13, 2000Android Amusement Park/Westworld Sequel
A sequel to the original Westworld. Here the cleverness of Michael Crichton's film is rehashed as a B movie plot about the amusement park now hosting android takeover conspiracies
J.D.’s Revenge (1976)
Jul 19, 2010Blaxploitation/Possession
A Blaxploitation film where decent law student Glynn Turman is possessed by the spirit of J.D., a petty hood who was shot in the 1940s and now sets out to take revenge
The People That Time Forgot (1977)
Apr 21, 2008Prehistoric Lost World
The third in the trilogy of Edgar Rice Burroughs adaptations with Doug McClure. This has much imagination despite the special effects often not being up to the task
Empire of the Ants (1977)
Feb 1, 2001Giant Atomic Ants
In the 1950s Bert I. Gordon specialised in cheap giant insect films. Here he takes H.G. Wells' name in vain and jumps aboard the 1970s Animals Amok cycle but still makes another shoddy film about giant ants
The Incredible Melting Man (1977)
May 16, 1999Melting Astronaut
Throwback to 1950s films like The Quatermass Xperiment with Alex Rebar as an astronaut infected with a condition that causes his flesh to melt. A B movie boosted by great melting effects from Rick Baker
The Island of Dr Moreau (1977)
Nov 19, 2010Mad Scientist Creates Beast Men
The second film adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel following The Island of Lost Souls. This has remade with a decent budget but the story's primal charge has been cleaned up
Jennifer (1978)
Apr 10, 2013Snake Controlling Teen's Telekinetic Revenge
A blatant ripoff of Carrie about a tormented girl who takes psychic revenge using snakes. Without Brian De Palma in the director's chair, this only looks like a cheap tv movie
The Amityville Horror (1979)
Jul 8, 1999Haunted House/"True Story"
Based on a book that claimed it was true story (but was later proven to be a hoax), this haunted house tale was a considerable success and spawned a series of sequels and imitators that continue to this day
C.H.O.M.P.S. (1979)
Apr 3, 2001Robot Dog/Children's Film
Excruciating and unfunny live-action Hanna-Barbera film in which an inventor creates a super-powered robot dog
Meteor (1979)
Jan 2, 2013Meteor Collision/Disaster Movie
An effort from the heyday of the 1970s disaster movie that was a big flop when it came out. Widely ridiculed for its bad special effects, it is a film I am partially prepared to defend, it setting aside the usual soap opera dramatics of these films to make an interesting parable about Cold War tensions. It also prefigures Armageddon with its plot of trying to divert a meteor on a collision course with Earth