Roger Corman, Hollywood mentor and 'King of the Bs,' dies at 98

[Archae]

Source: WBAY, ABC affiliate in Green Bay

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Roger Corman, the Oscar-winning “King of the Bs” who helped turn out such low-budget classics as “Little Shop of Horrors” and “Attack of the Crab Monsters” and gave many of Hollywood’s most famous actors and directors early breaks, has died. He was 98.

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I love his ripoff of Star Wars, "Battle Beyond The Stars."

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

1. Aww man. I love me some good B movies

RIP, Roger. We loved your stuff. Thanks for making them. Anyone else remember Joe Bob Briggs and his redneck movie reviews? He always rated R.C. stuff as pretty good.

[NanaCat]

16. I was living in Dallas when Joe Bob Briggs

Got his start at the Times-Herald (RIP to one of the great liberal newspapers). He was an instant success with his B-movie film reviews. Within a month, all of us hipsters would be crowded around someone's copy of the paper and howling with laughter.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

17. Here it was the Arkansas Gazette, another great liberal paper that's gone

The Arkansas Democrat, an awful lie of a name, bought them back in the 90s. The liberal writers they fired ended up at the Arkansas Times, a weekly that still exists and still has the old progressive ways.

[NBachers]

2. As a B movie fan, Roger Corman has alwaiys been a stand-out for me. I remember trying to explain to my son,

also a bad movie fiend, who Roger Corman was. I think you really had to be there . . .

[Skittles]

3. what a legacy!

and 98? WELL DONE, ROGER )

[MustLoveBeagles]

4. I liked his movies

[AuntyGravity]

5. Just rewatched Little Shop of Horrors

A couple days ago and thoroughly enjoyed the hell out of what I consider a brilliant masterpiece.

Thank You Roger for sharing your genius with us.

[Tikki]

6. Three of my favourite Roger Corman movies..Suburbia, Rock and Roll High School and Hollywood Vice Squad.

Tikki

[LeftInTX]

7. I liked his movies. (Guilty pleasure) He was surprisingly a soft spoken guy.

[diva77]

8. His book: How I made a hundred movies in Hollywood and never lost a dime

was interesting -- I vaguely recall that somewhere in the book he discloses that part of his success included having a certain amt of T&A in each film

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/416678.How_I_Made_A_Hundred_Movies_In_Hollywood

[frogmarch]

9. MST3K riffed a lot of his movies

Roger Corman produced and co-directed the 1980 science-fiction film Battle Beyond the Stars and produced the 1978 film Deathsport, both of which were identified as films planned to be used in the potential Season 14 of Mystery Science Theater 3000. That crowd-funding effort was not successful, and it remains to be seen if either film will be used on MST3K in the future.

Riffed Movies
MST3K

It Conquered the World (Episode #311) - director, producer
Teenage Cave Man (Episode #315) - director, producer
The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent (Episode #317) - director, producer
Attack of the Giant Leeches (Episode #406) - executive producer
Swamp Diamonds (Episode #503) - director
Gunslinger (Episode #511) - director, producer
The Sword and the Dragon (Episode #617) - editor and producer of the US version
High School Big Shot (Episode #618) - executive producer
Night of the Blood Beast (Episode #701) - producer
Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell (Episode #703) - executive producer
The Undead (Episode #806) - director, producer
Avalanche (Episode #1104) - producer
Starcrash (Episode #1106) - editor of the US version
Wizards of the Lost Kingdom (Episode #1110, also RiffTrax) - executive producer
Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II (Episode #1111) - executive producer
Lords of the Deep (Episode #1203) - as Corporate Executive, also executive producer
Munchie (Episode #1304) - executive producer
Deathstalker II (30th Anniversary Tour) - executive producer
Day the World Ended (MST3K: The Home Game) - director, producer
RiffTrax
The Little Shop of Horrors (Mike Nelson Commentaries, RiffTrax) - director
Beast of the Yellow Night (RiffTrax) - executive producer
Last Woman on Earth (RiffTrax Presents Bridget, Mary Jo, Matthew J. Elliott and Ian Potter) - director, producer
Creature from the Haunted Sea (RiffTrax Presents Matthew J. Elliott and Ian Potter) - director, producer, boom operator

https://mst3k.fandom.com/wiki/Roger_Corman#MST3K

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

18. I'll watch MST3K on the Pluto streaming service

Back then, they didn't closed caption them so I couldn't watch. Now almost everything is, so I've been catching up.

The best one so far is 'Werewolf'

[flying rabbit]

19. There is an MST3K

you tube channel if you need another way to get your fix

[John1956PA]

10. When filming "The Terror" (1963) Mr. Corman was . . .

. . . in a race with workers who were tearing down the castle set which had been used for a previous production. Boris Karloff was available for one day, and he was hurredly moved fron spot to spot to do his scenes. First-time lead Jack Nicholson almost perished in the waters if Big Sur. Francis Ford Coppola was writing on the fly and directing some scenes, as was Mr. Nicholson who later stated that the movie had no story to it. Despite it all, the movie still intrigues film students

[Ziggysmom]

11. RIP Roger. Your movies made so many special times for me in my youth, at the local drive in

movie theater. When I watch those movies again now, in my 60s, it floods me with happy memories.

[The Grand Illuminist]

12. Another name thought died a while ago.

RIP

[Mysterian]

13. 98 is a good number

I love the old shlock horror movies you made, sir.

[Marthe48]

14. R.I.P.

I didn't get as scared watching his movies

[kimbutgar]

15. I loved his movies !

RIP Roger!

[LudwigPastorius]

20. Russ Meyer, Roger Corman both gone.

Lloyd Kaufman is the last of the "schlock kings" left it seems.