APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 5: The Undead (1957)
April 5: Roger Corman’s birthday — Whether he produced or directed the movie, share a movie for Corman’s birthday. In the mid-1950s, reincarnation was in and The Search for Bridey Murphy was being made, so Roger Corman asked Charles Griffith to write a script, which was originally called The Trance of Diana Love, which is a great title, […]
Wild Eye to Debut New Collector’s Label VISUAL VENGEANCE July 2022
Wild Eye Releasing is thrilled to announce their brand new sister label Visual Vengeance, a collector’s Blu-ray label dedicated to vintage, sometimes overlooked micro budget genre independents from the 1980s though 2000s. The upcoming slate of releases will span underground genre history including action, horror, and sci-fi titles – and will feature SOV, Super 8, […]
Let the Wrong One In (2021)
EDITOR’S NOTE: We originally covered this film as part of Fantastic Fest on September 27, 2021. Now you can watch it in select theaters and on demand from Dark Sky Films. Matt’s older brother Deco turns up with a hangover one morning — like always — and when he’s let in, it turns out that he […]
MILL CREEK BLU RAY RELEASE: Magnum PI (1980-1988)
Magnum P.I. was a constant in my life through a tumultuous time, starting when I was just 8 and ending when I was 16, seeing me through the most chaotic years of young life. Thomas Sullivan Magnum IV’s (Tom Selleck) adventures in Hawaii were a center, a Thursday night oasis — Wednesday from series 7 […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 5: The Intruder (1962)
Also known as I Hate Your Guts, Shame and The Stranger, this film was bought by Roger Corman from Seven Arts in 1960. He originally saw Tony Randall as the star and the movie was turned down by AIP, UA and Allied Artistsbefore he raised the money with help from Pathé Labs, with Corman and his brother Gene paying the rest. […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 5: The Wild Angels (1966)
The Wild Angels earned $7 million on a budget of $360,000, making it the highest-grossing low-budget film of its era. Not bad for a movie that had script issues between Roger Corman and Charles B. Griffith, as well as numerous re-writes by Peter Bogdanovich. Plus, the US State Department tried to prevent the film from […]
Interview with William Stout Part 2
In the second part of our interview with master artist William Stout, we’ll discover how he learned the art of screenwriting — the hard way — as well as working for Roger Corman and a project that he nearly made with Jim Henson. B&S About Movies: So what came after Conan? William Stout: First Blood, […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 5: X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes (1963)
Roger Corman originally made this movie about a scientist, but that was “too obvious” so he changed the lead to be “a jazz musician who had taken too much drugs, and I get into about four or five pages, and I thought, “You know, I don’t like this idea”, and so I threw the whole […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 5
For the fifth day of the B&S About Movies April Movie Thon, we’re celebrating the birthday of Roger Corman, who has pretty much influenced not only the movies we’ve loved on video and at drive-ins, but literally all of pop culture. April 5: Roger Corman’s birthday — You have a few movies to choose from, whether […]
Prototype (2022)
Soon, life-like androids with artificial intelligence — Anton LaVey would have been happy about this — have been created to do the household work that humans have no interest in doing themselves. One of those androids, One (Luke Robinson), has been part of creator Roger Marshall’s (Jamie Robertson, Medusa) family but now the inventor plans on […]
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