Monster from the Ocean Floor (1954)
Dec 15, 2007Atomic Sea Monster
One of the first films produced by Roger Corman, a routine B monster movie that has mostly been made around obtaining the use of a one-man submersible
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Day the World Ended (1955)
Sep 5, 2002After the Nuclear Holocaust
One of the first films from Roger Corman. Set among a group of survivors in the immediate aftermath of the nuclear holocaust, Corman blatantly steals the plot from Five and adds a mutant monster to the mix
It Conquered the World (1956)
Sep 11, 2003Alien Invasion
One of the early directorial films from Roger Corman, a surprisingly vigorous and well written variant on the alien body snatcher film featuring one of the memorable alien creations of the era
The Undead (1957)
Apr 2, 2024Hypnotic Regression/Mediaeval Witchery
An early Roger Corman film that stirs a fascinating mix of elements involving hypnotic regression, witchery, time travel and appearances from The Devil
Not Of This Earth (1957)
Apr 12, 2017Alien Vampire
One of the classic B-budget films directed by the legendary Roger Corman back in his heyday. Concerning a mysterious alien vampire, this comes with all the quirks and dry humour of Corman's films of this era
Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)
Jan 21, 2014Giant Atomically Mutated Crabs
One of the essential items in the cult of B-movie director Roger Corman. A cheerfully absurd atomic monster movie that comes with clear corners cut but played by Corman and cast with more seriousness than it deserves
War of the Satellites (1958)
Jun 11, 2020Aliens Sabotage Space Launches
An early film from legendary B movie producer/director Roger Corman. This is an alien invasion film but has been twisted out of shape to exploit the fascination with satellites after the launch of Sputnik several months before the film came out
Teenage Caveman (1958)
May 12, 2004Post-Holocaust Cavemen
Roger Corman film that sets out to exploit the teenage themed fad of the late 1950s, offering up a caveman drama that comes with a surprise SF twist
A Bucket of Blood (1959)
Dec 13, 2010Murderous Beatnik Artist/Black Comedy
A quirky low-budget black comedy from cult B movie director Roger Corman with Dick Miller as a wannabe who suddenly receives artistic acclaim when he exhibits dead bodies in plaster as works of art
The Wasp Woman (1959)
Sep 2, 2003Rejuvenation Formula/Wasp Woman
Roger Corman cheapie clearly influenced by The Fly in which a woman becomes a creature after using a beauty product derived from wasp venom
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
The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
Nov 12, 2002Killer Plant Black Comedy
The original, Roger Corman's zero budget film about a killer plant is an hilarious black comedy that has become a cult favourite and remains his most well remembered film
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
Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961)
Sep 11, 2009Gonzo Monster Movie
Roger Corman makes a film about sea monsters and mobsters. Things get very silly but not as funny as when he tried the took the same wacky approach in his cult classic The Little Shop of Horrors
Premature Burial (1962)
May 5, 2002Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation
The third of Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe films, the only one without Vincent Price. Here Ray Milland develops a fearful obsession of being buried alive
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
Tower of London (1962)
Dec 18, 2000Richard III Historical Horror
This is essentially Shakespeare's Richard III mounted as a horror film. Roger Corman and Vincent Price take time away in the midst of their Edgar Allan Poe adaptations to turn the same style to matters historical
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
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
The Raven (1963)
Sep 5, 2002War Between Magicians Comedy
The fifth of the Roger Corman Edgar Allan Poe films. By this point, there was a clear desire for some novelty so this one is played as a comedy between duelling magicians
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.
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
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
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
Death Race 2000 (1975)
Aug 6, 2000Future Road Race/Black Comedy
Satiric hit produced by Roger Corman, a spoof of Rollerball, with David Carradine as a driver in a futuristic road race where points are won by running down pedestrians. Also featuring a young unknown Sylvester Stallone
Piranha (1978)
Dec 26, 2000Killer Fish
The second film from Joe Dante. Mounted as a quickie copy of Jaws by producer Roger Corman, Dante succeeds in peppering it with a lot of sly jokes and genre in-references
Deathsport (1978)
Jan 18, 2001Post-Holocaust Action
Terrible film made to exploit the success of Death Race 2000 with David Carradine as a mystical post-apocalyptic Range Guide. This is however a post-apocalyptic action film that prefigures much of Mad Max 2
Humanoids from the Deep (1980)
Aug 19, 2015Horny Mutant Fish People
Monster movie featuring mutant fish monsters come onto land to breed with women. Absurdly entertaining, this at least brings the interspecies lust in films like The Creature from the Black Lagoon out into the open
Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)
Jan 15, 2011Space Opera
Roger Corman jumps aboard the Star Wars fad and offers up a version of The Seven Samurai/The Magnificent Seven located in space. Corman has thrown a reasonable budget at the film for once and it emerges as colourfully enjoyable
Galaxy of Terror (1981)
Oct 19, 2002Enigmatic Alien Planet
An Alien copy produced by Roger Corman that creates a constantly eerie atmosphere in between the usual slime-drooling monster attacks. With production design by a then unknown James Cameron
Forbidden World (1982)
Aug 25, 2002Mutating Monster
One of the numerous copies of Alien. This was produced by Roger Corman, which means more of an exploitation emphasis – the alien is three times the size, there is more of a T&A emphasis and the effects are cannibalised from his other films
Space Raiders (1983)
Jun 2, 2016Space Opera
Low-budget producer Roger Corman jumped aboard the Star Wars sf bandwagon with Battle Beyond the Stars then took all the effects scenes and wrote another entire film around them with Space Raiders
Barbarian Queen (1985)
Jul 4, 2024Sword and Sorcery
One of a series of low-budget sword-and-sorcery films of the 1980s. This predates both Red Sonja and Xena with its depiction of a fierce warrior woman. Produced by Roger Corman
Munchies (1987)
Jul 5, 1999Malevolent Alien Critters
Painfully cheap and badly made ripoff of Gremlins about a horde of malevolent alien creatures. Produced by Roger Corman
Stripped to Kill (1987)
Mar 25, 2016Undercover in a Strip Club Psycho-Thriller
The very first film with the plot of a woman cop going undercover in a strip club. The police procedural plot and psycho element takes a very clear backseat to the stripper set-pieces, some of which are imaginatively staged. On the plus side, the film is directed by a woman
Crime Zone (1989)
Jun 20, 2002Dystopian Future
A low-budget SF-action film produced by Roger Corman with David Carradine as a police chief in a dystopian future who becomes wound up in the lives of two young lovers on the run
The Terror Within (1989)
Oct 20, 2020Mutant Monster
Roger Corman produces a blatant copy of Alien with a group of people being pursued around a desert laboratory by a rubbery mutant creature
Masque of Red Death (1989)
Jun 1, 2000Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation
Dull and dreary version of the Edgar Allan Poe story especially when placed in contrast to producer Roger Corman's definitive 1964 version
Watchers II (1990)
Aug 28, 2024Intelligent Dog Hunted by a Monster
The first of three sequels to the Dean R. Koontz adaptation about an intelligent dog, although for each sequel producer Roger Corman has just remade the book
Frankenstein Unbound (1990)
Aug 25, 2002Time-Traveller Meets Frankenstein and Mary Shelley
Roger Corman disappointed with his return to the director's chair after twenty years. He adapts a Brian Aldiss novel about a time-traveller meeting both Mary Shelley and Dr Frankenstein
The Haunting of Morella (1990)
Jan 6, 2026Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation/Resurrected Wife
An adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe story produced by Roger Corman. Alas giving it to exploitation director Jim Wynorski, who likes to add really well stacked women to everything does, kills all of Poe’s atmosphere
Future Kick (1991)
Jan 19, 2008Cyberpunk Future Action
Cheap Cyberpunk action film that borrows the basics of Cyborg with Don ‘The Dragon’ Wilson as android bounty hunter engaged in stopping corporate skulduggery
Dracula Rising (1992)
Feb 5, 2026Vampire Film
The 1990s brought us the darkly romantic vampire spearheaded by Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula. This was a Roger Corman produced bandwagon jumper on the trend
Immortal Sins (1992)
Apr 19, 1999Reincarnated Witch's Revenge
A Roger Corman produced erotic horror in which Cliff De Young inherits a castle in Spain where he is tempted by a witch who appears in his dreams
Virtual Seduction (1995)
Jan 21, 2020Virtual Reality
Produced by Roger Corman back when the idea of Virtual Reality was new and fascinated with the erotic possibilities. Jeff Fahey tests out a VR system and becomes lost in it after creating a simulation of his late girlfriend
Black Scorpion (1995)
Nov 21, 2003Masked Superheroine
Following Michelle Pfeiffer's turn as Cat Woman in Batman Returns, this was a copycat from Roger Corman in which Joan Severance becomes a black vinyl clad superheroine exacting justice
Black Scorpion: Ground Zero (1996)
Dec 16, 2003Masked Superheroine
The second of the low-budget Roger Corman produced films made for cable featuring Joan Severance as a black vinyl-clad masked superheroine
The Haunting of Hell House (1999)
Nov 3, 2000Supernatural Retribution
An Irish shot adaptation of a Henry James ghost story that was repackaged by Roger Corman to take advantage of the release of the remake of The Haunting
Nightfall (2000)
Dec 8, 2013Isaac Asimov Adaptation
Isaac Asimov's Nightfall, about a planet surrounded by six suns that only experiences nightfall once every thousand years, is considered the No 1 classic science-fiction short story. On film, it has alas befallen two impoverished versions from Roger Corman of which this was the second
Death Race (2008)
Nov 22, 2008Future Prison/Gladiatorial Road Races
Paul W.S. Anderson's remake of Death Race 2000 strips the satire from the original and turns it into a modern action movie - a to-the-death car chase film set in a near-future prison
Sharktopus (2010)
Dec 28, 2014Monster Shark-Octopus Hybrid
Amid the fad for deliberately absurd killer shark films viz Sharknado, this surely takes the prize for ridiculousness of conception and delivery – a hybrid creature with the head of a shark and the tentacles of an octopus. I defy you not to burst into laughter at some of the scenes (*)
Dinoshark (2010)
Dec 4, 2019Revived Prehistoric Killer Shark
One of the earliest entries in the gonzo killer shark fad, predating Sharknado even. This comes produced by Roger Corman and concerns a prehistoric shark that is revived
Sharktopus vs Pteracuda (2014)
Jan 11, 2017Giant Hybrid Monsters
Entry in the gonzo killer shark film (viz Sharknado et al), sequel to the earlier Sharktopus Though produced by veteran B movie producer Roger Corman, these Sharktopus films are some of the shittiest in the gonzo killer shark fad, featuring way below sub par effects and missing the sense of humour
Sharktopus vs Whalewolf (2015)
May 25, 2023Giant Hybrid Monsters
Third of the Sharktopus films from Roger Corman, an entry in the series that is making no longer making any effort to take itself seriously
Death Race 2050 (2017)
Feb 12, 2017Future Road Race/Satire
Death Race 2000 was a hit for producer Roger Corman. It was remade minus the satire as a straight action film with Death Race; here Corman remakes the original (albeit very cheaply) and restores the satire