Roger Corman
Birthday: 1926-04-05
Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA
Biography: Roger William Corman (April 5, 1926 – May 9, 2024) was an American film director, producer and actor. Known under various monikers such as "The Pope of Pop Cinema", “The King of The B’s”, "The Spiritual Godfather of the New Hollywood", and "The King of Cult", he was known as a trailblazer in the world of independent film. Many of the more than 500 features directed or produced by Corman were low-budget films that later attracted a cult following, such as The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), The Intruder (1962), X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes (1963), and the counterculture films, The Wild Angels (1966) and The Trip (1967). House of Usher (1960) became the first of eight films directed by Corman that were adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and which collectively came to be known as the "Poe Cycle". In 1964, Corman became the youngest filmmaker to have a retrospective at the Cinémathèque française, as well as in the British Film Institute and the Museum of Modern Art. He was the co-founder of New World Pictures, the founder of New Concorde and was a longtime member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 2009, he was awarded an Academy Honorary Award "for his rich engendering of films and filmmakers". Corman was also famous for handling the U.S. distribution of many films by noted foreign directors, including Federico Fellini (Italy), Ingmar Bergman (Sweden), François Truffaut (France) and Akira Kurosawa (Japan). He mentored and gave a start to many young film directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, Peter Bogdanovich, Joe Dante, John Sayles, and James Cameron, and was highly influential in the New Hollywood filmmaking movement of the 1960s and 1970s. He also helped to launch the careers of actors like Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper, Bruce Dern, Diane Ladd, and William Shatner.
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The Godfather Part II
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in...
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The Silence of the Lambs
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to int...
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Apollo 13
The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the l...
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Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
How the inventor of the detective story became his own greatest mystery....
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Scream 3
As bodies begin dropping around the Hollywood set of STAB 3, the third film based on the gruesome Wo...
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The Fast and the Furious
A framed man escapes prison and takes a wealthy woman's Jaguar with her in it. After she tries to es...
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The State of Things
On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman...
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Cannonball
Coy "Cannonball" Buckman and his blazing red Pontiac enter the Trans-America Grand Prix, an undergro...
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The Howling
After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitati...
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In Hock & Staying There
'In Hock & Staying There' chronicles Alexandre's exploits as an Indie filmmaker as he interviews oth...
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Body Bags
A horror anthology containing three stories: a female college student working a graveyard shift is t...
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The Wasp Woman
The head of a major cosmetics company experiments on herself with a youth formula made from royal je...
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Popatopolis
In 20 years, he's directed more films than Martin Scorsese, He's produced more profitable movies tha...
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Monster from the Ocean Floor
Julie, an American on vacation in Mexico, spots a giant, one-eyed amoeba rising from the ocean, but ...
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Naked Paradise
Gangster Zac Cotton and his two henchmen, Mitch and Sonny, try to get a boat to get off a tropical i...
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War of the Satellites
An "unknown force" declares war against planet Earth when the United Nations disobeys warnings to ce...
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Atlas
Evil king Praximedes convinces superhero Atlas to fight for him, but Atlas eventually sees the king'...
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The Horror of It All
A collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made ...
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Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
An exploration of the appeal of horror films, with interviews of many legendary directors in the gen...
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Sharktopus
The U.S. Navy's special group "Blue Water" builds a half-shark, half-octopus for combat. But the sha...
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
The chronicle of the mind-blowing journey that was Hollywood during the seventies; the true and grip...
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Machete Maidens Unleashed!
In the final decades of the 20th century, the Philippines was a country where low-budget exploitatio...
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The Independent
A notorious B-movie director tries for a comeback by seeking out the film rights to the life story o...
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Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies
Hollywood is a town of tinsel and glamour; but there is another Hollywood, a place where maverick in...
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Corman's World
A chronicle of the long career of American filmmaker Roger Corman, the most tenacious and ingenious ...
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Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp
The final volume of Time Warp digs deep into what makes us laugh over and over again as we reveal th...
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The Sci-Fi Boys
Legendary all-stars of cinema bring to life the evolution of science-fiction and special effects fil...
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With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
At 89 years old, Stan Lee's name appears on more than one BILLION comics in 75 countries in 25 langu...
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Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema
Documentary on the life of legendary filmmaker Roger Corman, often referred to as the "Pope of Pop C...
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Sharksploitation
The ultimate deep dive into the world of shark cinema: filmmakers, critics, scholars and conservatio...
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Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
Martin Scorsese narrates this tribute to Val Lewton, the producer of a series of memorable low-budge...
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Tromatized: Meet Lloyd Kaufman
A portrait of legendary American film company Troma, Inc., an independent New York-based production ...
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Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the American Drive-in Movie
Once a vibrant part of American culture, drive-ins reached their peak in the late 1950s with almost ...
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Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
Ekchart Schmidt examines the machinery behind the dream factory; the Hollywood myth is unmasked. How...
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Corman's Comedy of Poe
Roger Corman discusses his horror comedy films for American International Pictures....
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Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four
A history of the ill-fated 1994 production of “The Fantastic Four” that was executive produced by Ro...
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Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood
"Bullets Over Hollywood" delves into America's fascination with gangsters and features historical pe...
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Runaway Daughters
Angie, Mary, and Laura are teenage girls who are fed up with their bland and unexciting small town l...
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Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel
Documentary examining the life and career of producer/director Roger Corman. Clips from his films an...
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Behind the Swinging Blade
Filmed exclusively for Arrow Video in 2013, this documentary looks at the making of The Pit and the ...
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I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
A documentary which explores the life and the career of Michelangelo Antonioni, one of the greatest ...
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It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
A 60-minute salute to American International Pictures. Entertainment lawyer Samuel Z. Arkoff founded...
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That Guy Dick Miller
Documentary about veteran character actor Dick Miller, whose career in and outside of Hollywood has ...
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Bloody And Groovy Baby! A Tribute to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead 2
Another documentary about the influence, from Evil Dead 2 on different directors....
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Philadelphia
Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their un...
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Direct Your Own Damn Movie!
Legendary director Lloyd Kaufman, President of Troma Entertainment and Creator of the Toxic Avenger,...
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Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper
Hollywood's controversial creative genius, whose career spans multiple generations of moviegoers, is...
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Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
Famous Monster takes a fast-paced, colorful look at the life of science fiction's greatest fan - For...
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Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen
Documentary on the life and work of B-movie filmmaker Edgar G. Ulmer, spanning from his early life t...
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Mary Woronov: Cult Queen
The documentary explores the enigma of actress and artist Mary Woronov and chronicles her colorful c...
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Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
The documentary consists of tape of Don's show (never been filmed before), interviews with Don's con...
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Battle of Blood Island
Two American GIs are the only survivors of a unit wiped out in a battle with Japanese troops on an i...
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Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute
Filmmakers examine the work and influence of Martin Scorsese on modern cinema...
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Tales from the Lumber Yard: The Making of Galaxy of Terror
Behind the scenes of Roger Corman's Galaxy of Terror....
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Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins
From THINGS to BODY SNATCHERS to CREATURES FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, sci-fi monsters dominated 1950s ho...
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Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound
From superheroes to superstars, Hollywood has always turned to comic books for imagination and inspi...
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Extraordinary Tales
Five tales by Edgar Allan Poe come to life thanks to a pictorical style animation, five tales that e...
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Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties
This documentary was broadcast on the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) cable channel to kick off the pres...
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Out of the Blue and Into the Black
Paul Joyce’s Out of the Blue and Into the Black is an insightful documentary surveying American inde...
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Target: Harry
Pilot Harry Black is hired to fly a man named Carlyle to Istanbul, where he's murdered. Now, mysteri...
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Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
A comprehensive story of Hollywood's horror and science fiction films of the 1950s, told by the peop...
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Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective
A year in the making, Still Screaming is the definitive documentary on the making of the iconic Scre...
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Looney Tunes: Back in Action
Fed up with all the attention going to Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck quits Hollywood, teams up with recentl...
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Lords of the Deep
Man has finally conquered the ocean. America's first self-contained undersea laboratory is the pride...
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Some Nudity Required
A woman working in the B movie industry begins examining the industry and the damaged, desperate peo...
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Hollywood Boulevard II
A studio finds itself in the middle of a bizarre murder mystery when an exploding teddy bear kills t...
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All the Love You Cannes!
Known for what must be the cheapest and cheesiest of the indie film world, Troma films takes on Cann...
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Remembering 'The Intruder'
Roger Corman & William Shatner are talking about the making of 'The Intruder'....
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Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain
Documentary on the life and career of actor Vincent Price, best known for horror film classics such ...
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Rachel Getting Married
A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend ...
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It Was a Colossal Teenage Movie Machine: The AIP Story
Feature-length documentary about the early history of American International Pictures....
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From Manila with Love
Retrospective documentary on the making of the 70's women-in-prison exploitation cult favorites "The...
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Mario Bava: Operazione paura
Mario Bava Operazione Paura", hosted by Joe Dante, is an hommage of the Master of the Terror, the it...
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Martin Scorsese Directs
Providing behind the scenes footage of the director on set with clips from his own films, Martin Sco...
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Horror Cafe
April 1990 - Six horror icons gather at the horror cafe to create the ultimate horror movie for the ...
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The Fanex Files, Volume 2: Samuel Z. Arkoff
Samuel Z. Arkoff, along with James Nicholson, founded the immensely successful American Internationa...
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First Works
It's a mixed bag in the age of illuminating DVD supplements, but First Works effectively demonstrate...
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Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of this Oscar winning thriller, prepared for its tenth annive...
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The Dark Side of Hollywood
Behind the scenes of Hollywood's low-budget movie industry. It is a powerful portrait of the fragili...
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Greetings from Tromaville!
Greetings from Tromaville follows the history of Lloyd Kaufman and Troma Entertainment. Lloyd, along...
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It Came From Connemara!
The incongruous tale of when legendary Hollywood B-movie producer Roger Corman created a studio in C...
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The Phantom Eye
Two film students must find a movie in the AMC vault. They have until midnight. If they survive and ...
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Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
Chronicles the last great American showman, filmmaker William Castle, a master of ballyhoo who becam...
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Memory: The Origins of Alien
The untold origin story behind Ridley Scott's Alien - rooted in Greek and Egyptian mythologies, unde...
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The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters
This documentary celebrates the work of illustrator Reynold Brown, whose colorful and compelling art...
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The Second Civil War
When a planeload of Pakistani orphans are shipped to his state for permanent relocation, the governo...
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Cry Baby Killer
After committing what he thinks is murder, teenage Jimmy Wallace panics and holds a couple hostage....
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The Manchurian Candidate
Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terribl...
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Dr. Jack & Mr. Nicholson
In a Hollywood career spanning more than 50 years and with 60 movie credits to his name, Jack Nichol...
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Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man
The cast and main players in the crew come together to discuss the making of cult British horror fil...
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Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader
Aspiring college cheerleader, Cassie Stratford consumes an experimental drug that grants her beauty ...
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Corman's Eyedrops Got Me Too Crazy
A totally Cardoso-appropriated footage delirium, done as a tribute to US independent cinema's origin...
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AGFA Mystery Mixtape #1
Unleashed from the video vaults of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA), AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #1 i...
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AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis
Unleashed from the video vaults of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA), AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #3: ...
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Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi
The greatest cult horror and science fiction films of all-time are studied in vivid detail in the se...
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The Wicker Man Enigma
Cast and Crew Members come together to discuss the troubled production and distribution of 'The Wick...
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Searchers 2.0
Two actors who owe their entire careers to the Western genre seek revenge against a legendary screen...
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Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone's Magic Man
A documentary about one of the most influential science fiction writers of the 1950s and 1960s. Cha...
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The True Story of Hannibal
Hannibal, one of the greatest military leaders in history, accompanied his father Amílcar Barca at t...
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Swing Shift
In 1941 America, Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against h...
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The Perfect Scary Movie
A documentary looking at the various conventions and scare techniques of the horror genre....
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SEGAL
From a shy kid on Long Island to Hollywood Leading Man, during its most prolific decades, legendary ...
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Z Dead End
July 4th 2015 the world was invaded by zombies. Humanity was put to the test in a small town in Colo...
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Day the World Ended
After a nuclear attack, an unlikely group of survivors, including a geologist, a crook and his moll,...
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Sodankylä Forever
The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arc...
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Dinoshark
A baby dinoshark evolves into a ferocious predatory adult, terrorising tourists and locals offshore ...
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Sleepless Nights: Revisiting the Slumber Party Massacres
30 years after the original feminist slasher film The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) hit theaters, ca...
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Ski Troop Attack
An American patrol has to cross behind enemy lines by skis in order to blow up an important railroad...
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Ticket to Hollywood
Documentary looking at how Hollywood went from a small town to a mega center....
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Horror!!!
Horror stars are interviewed about their craft and films. Included on Severin Films' "Eurocrypt of C...
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Produce Your Own Damn Movie!
When it comes to producing, no one speaks with more authority than Lloyd Kaufman creator of The Toxi...
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Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
Beginning just before his debut as Frankenstein’s creation, this documentary compellingly explores t...
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A Decade Under the Influence
A documentary examining the decade of the 1970s as a turning point in American cinema. Some of today...
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Chiller Theatre Fiend Club Show: Volume 2
A hosted horror movie show with Gerald Caiafa Jr. as "Jerry Only" and Paul Caiafa as "Doyle" who pre...
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1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever!
A remarkable new epic documentary spotlighting the pop culture milestones of 1982 including notable ...
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Ivan, the TerrirBle
Ivan Cardoso is the inventor of the terrir, a subgenre that mixes comedy, Brazilian chanchadas and c...
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Tidal Wave
Two hundred million years ago, Earth had a single continent. As the millennia progressed, the single...
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Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
illustrates how directors pushed boundaries and altered the art of filmmaking during the turbulent, ...
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The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
THE AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE VAULT is a 2-disc, 500-minute odyssey that collects eight feature-length VH...
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The Devil Ant
A barrel of radioactive waste dumped by a careless mad scientist turns an ordinary ant into the Fear...
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Hot Car Girl
In this violent drama, a young juvenile delinquent gets into more trouble when he gets involved with...
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The Young Racers
A former race car driver-turned-writer attempts to expose a ruthless, womanizing Grand Prix racer. A...
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Blood Bath
A painter of morbid art, who becomes a murderous vampire by night and kills young women, attempts a ...
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Wasp Woman: Murder of a B-movie Queen
WASP WOMAN is an explosive, true-crime investigation into the stranger-than-fiction killing of a cul...
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Olivera & Corman: Hollywood en Argentina
A documentary reading and oral reconstruction, based on interviews and archival material, of the col...
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