A look back at the work of an iconic director whose work explored outsider cultures, Sixties psychedelia and gangland conflict as well as including some unforgettable adaptations of the work of Edgar Allen Poe. This strand shows some of the best of his work with Vincent Price and other charismatic stars like Dennis Hopper, George Segal, Robert De Niro, Boris Karloff, Peter Fonda and even William Shatner. It's a great chance to catch some rarely-seen classics. Corman's lush visuals are a knockout, but it's his sharp understanding of social themes that really brings this work to life.
An angry mother leads her sons on a bloody rampage through Depression-era America.
(Country: US; Year: 1970; Director: Roger Corman; Stars: Shelley Winters, Robert De Niro, Pat Hingle, Don stroud, Diane Varsi, Bruce Dem, Clint Kimbrough)
With its claustrophobic themes of madness, suffocation and despair, The House Of Usher is a classic of Gothic horror.
A brother fiercely refuses to let his sister marry her fiance - but are his motives rooted in something darker than mere jealousy?
(Country: US; Year: 1960; Director: Roger Corman; Writer: Richard Matheson, based on the short story by Edgar Allen Poe.; Stars: Vincent Price, Mark Damon, Myrna Fahey, Harry Ellerbe)
One of the best films of the period, as well as one of the best ever made on race relations.
A racist provocateur stirs up hatred and violence in a small town in the American South.
(Country: US; Year: 1962; Director: Roger Corman; Writer: Charles Beaumont; Stars: William Shatner, Frank Maxwell, Beverly Lunsford, Robert Emhardt, Leo Gordon, Charles Barnes, Charles Beaumont, Katherine Smith, George Clayton Johnson, William F. Nolan, Phoebe Rowe, Bo Dodd, Walter Kurtz, Oceo Ritch, Jeanne Cooper)
A film which is there not just to be watched, but to be experienced.
A cruel prince devotes himself to Satan and lives a life of excess, but just beyond his castle gates lurks a deadly plague.
(Country: UK; Year: 1964; Director: Roger Corman; Writer: Charles Beaumont, R. Wright Campbell; Stars: Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher, David Weston, Nigel Green, Patrick Magee)
The Pit And The Pendulum is an epic slice of grand guignol.
A man investigating his sister's early death grows increasingly suspicious in her widower's castle full of bizarre torture devices.
(Country: US; Year: 1961; Director: Roger Corman; Writer: Richard Matheson, based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe.; Stars: Vincent Price, John Kerr, Barbara Steele, Luana Anders, Antony Carbone, Patrick Westwood)
Fans of classic horror will thrill to see these two great masters, Price and Karloff, go up against each other.
Two aging wizards feud over a woman.
(Country: US; Year: 1963; Director: Roger Corman; Writer: Richard Matheson, based on the poem by Edgar Allen Poe.; Stars: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Hazel Court, Olive Sturgess, Jack Nicholson)
Review preview for The St Valentine's Day Massacre
An excellent example of Corman’s prodigious oeuvre and phenomenal versatility.
A historical thriller about Al Capone's bloody war with Bugs Moran.
(Country: US; Year: 1967; Director: Roger Corman; Stars: Jason Robards, George Segal, Ralph Meeker, Jean Hale, Clint Richie, Frank Silvera, Joseph Campanella,)
A dying woman vows to return from the grave - and, on doing so, is not too happy to find her husband remarried.
(Country: US; Year: 1964; Director: Roger Corman; Stars: Vincent Price, Elizabeth Shepherd, John Westbrook, Derek Francis, Oliver Johnston, Richard Vernon)
The Trip
The experiences of a television director taking LSD for the first time.
(Country: US; Year: 1967; Director: Roger Corman; Stars: Peter Fonda, Susan Strasberg, Bruce Dern, Dennis Hopper, Salli Sachse, Barboura Morris)
The Wild Angels
A gang of bikers run into trouble when looking for a stolen motorcycle.
(Country: US; Year: 1966; Director: Roger Corman; Stars: Peter Fonda, Nancy Sinatra, Bruce Dern, Diane Ladd, Buck Taylor, Norman Alden, Michael J Pollard)
