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In 2010, Roger Corman teamed up New Horizons Pictures with Shout! Factory to release new DVD and Blu-ray editions of Corman productions under the name Roger Corman's Cult Classics. [161] [162] The releases have concentrated on 1970–1980s films he produced through New World rather than directed.
[11] The Monthly Film Bulletin declared, "By and large, Roger Corman's Poe adaptations maintain the highest standard in their field since Val Lewton's low-budget horror films of the Forties", and noted that the anthology format provided "the added advantage that for once there is no sense of the material being stretched too thin." [12]
The film was the first of eight Corman/Poe feature films and stars Vincent Price, Myrna Fahey, Mark Damon and Harry Ellerbe. In 2005, the film was listed with the United States National Film Registry as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
Roger Corman, the B-movie director who is credited with changing the face of Hollywood, has died aged 98.. Throughout his career, Corman, who directed 55 films including The Little Shop of Horrors ...
A Hollywood maverick who made hundreds of movies, Corman was the man behind everything from Vincent Price horror romps to 1960s biker flicks. Among his most memorable movies were 1960’s “The ...
In 1963, Corman initiated a series of films based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe. The most notable was “The Raven,” which teamed Nicholson with veteran horror stars Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre ...
The Haunted Dream (circa 1961) - a biopic of Edgar Allan Poe [8] I Flew a Spy Plane Over Russia (early 1960s) - based on the Francis Gary Powers incident with a script written by Robert Towne that Corman claims was not finished in time [9] a biopic on Robert E. Lee for United Artists (early 1960s) [10]
The most notable was “The Raven,” which teamed Nicholson with veteran horror stars Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre and Basil Rathbone. Directed by Corman on a rare three-week schedule, the horror spoof won good reviews, a rarity for his films. Another Poe adaptation, “House of Usher,” was deemed worthy of preservation by the Library of Congress.