The title and bald synopsis gives the impression that Corman and Charles B. One of the crab monstersĪttack of the Crab Monsters was one of Roger Corman’s typical B monster movies from this period. (See bottom of the page for Roger Corman’s other genre films). He retired from directing in 1970 and thereafter became a producer, turning out a huge number of low-budget films at various companies like New World Pictures and Concorde-New Horizons. In the decade ahead, Corman made a series of Edgar Allan Poe films that earned him a reasonable degree of critical acclaim. Together they made Attack of the Crab Monsters, The Undead (1957) and then started to plant tongues in cheek with A Bucket of Blood (1959), reaching their heights with Corman’s low-budget gem The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), before it all started to get a bit silly by the time of Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961). These include the genre likes of Day the World Ended (1955), It Conquered the World (1956), Not Of This Earth (1957), The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent (1957), Teenage Caveman (1958), War of the Satellites (1958) and The Wasp Woman (1959).Ĭorman started to turn the B movie into something else after his collaborations with screenwriter Charles B. Not to mention could take two Russian science-fiction films and rehash the best footage to make no less than four other English-language films.Ĭorman began in the 1950s, directing mostly very cheap science-fiction, monster and teenage delinquency films at AIP (American International Pictures). He is the director who could finish a film so quickly he could make another entire film out of the leftover days on an actor’s contract, or after finding a set that hadn’t yet been demolished would have a script speedily written and make a film around it. Corman’s exploits in this regard are legendary. Director/producer Roger Corman earned the nickname ‘The King of the B Movies’ and a reputation as someone who would cut every corner he could to save a dollar.
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