Roger Corman

In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.

Dir. Roger Corman · With Vincent Price, John Kerr, Barbara Steele

Convinced that his family is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hellbent on stopping his sister Madeline’s wedding to prevent the cursed Usher bloodline from expanding. When her fiancé Philip Winthrop arrives at the crumbling estate to claim his bride, Roderick goes to ruthless—even deadly—lengths to keep them apart.

Dir. Roger Corman · With Vincent Price, Mark Damon, Myrna Fahey

A man and his wife claim the mansion of his warlock ancestor burned alive in 1765.

Dir. Roger Corman · With Vincent Price, Debra Paget, Lon Chaney Jr.

Three stories adapted from the work of Edgar Allen Poe: 1) A man and his daughter are reunited, but the blame for the death of his wife hangs over them, unresolved. 2) A derelict challenges the local wine-tasting champion to a competition, but finds the man's attention to his wife worthy of more dramatic action. 3) A man dying and in great pain agrees to be hypnotized at the moment of death, with unexpected consequences.

Dir. Roger Corman · With Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone

Five tales by Edgar Allan Poe come to life thanks to a pictorical style animation, five tales that exude madness, pestilence, murder and torture.

Dir. Raúl García · With Christopher Lee, Bela Lugosi, Julian Sands

Verden Fell is shattered after the death of his lovely wife. But, after an unexpected encounter with Lady Rowena Trevanion, Fell soon finds himself married again. Nevertheless, his late wife's spirit seems to hang over the dilapidated abbey that Fell shares with his new bride. Lady Rowena senses that something is amiss and, when she investigates, makes a horrifying discovery -- learning that Fell's dead wife is closer than she ever imagined possible.

Dir. Roger Corman · With Vincent Price, Elizabeth Shepherd, John Westbrook

Seymour works in a skid row florist shop and is in love with his beautiful co-worker, Audrey. He creates a new plant that not only talks but cannot survive without human flesh and blood.

Dir. Roger Corman · With Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles

A doctor uses special eye drops to give himself x-ray vision, but the new power has disastrous consequences.

Dir. Roger Corman · With Ray Milland, Diana Van der Vlis, Harold J. Stone

An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational fear of premature burial consumes him.

Dir. Roger Corman · With Ray Milland, Hazel Court, Richard Ney

A man in a gleaming white suit comes to a small Southern town on the eve of integration. He calls himself a social reformer. But what he does is stir up trouble--trouble he soon finds he can't control.

Dir. Roger Corman · With William Shatner, Frank Maxwell, Beverly Lunsford

Nerdy Walter Paisley, a maladroit busboy at a beatnik café who doesn't fit in with the cool scene around him, attempts to woo his beautiful co-worker, Carla, by making a bust of her. When his klutziness results in the death of his landlady's cat, he panics and hides its body under a layer of plaster. But when Carla and her friends enthuse over the resulting artwork, Walter decides to create some bigger and more elaborate pieces using the same artistic process.

Dir. Roger Corman · With Dick Miller, Barboura Morris, Antony Carbone

A magician who has been turned into a raven turns to a former sorcerer for help.

Dir. Roger Corman · With Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff

The ultimate weapon, claimed to be safe for mankind, produces global side-effects including time slides and disappearances. The scientist behind the project and his car are zapped from the year 2031 to 1817 in Switzerland where he meets Dr. Victor Frankenstein, Mary Shelley and others.

Dir. Roger Corman · With John Hurt, Raúl Juliá, Nick Brimble

A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the "Red Death" plague that stalks the land.

Dir. Roger Corman · With Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher

Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as policemen, surprise and mow down with machine-guns the key members of Bugs Moran's rival gang. The film traces the history of the incident, and the lives affected and in some cases ended by it.

Dir. Roger Corman · With Jason Robards, George Segal, Ralph Meeker

Lt. Andre Duvalier awakens on a beach to the sight of a strange woman who leads him to the gothic, towering castle that serves as home to an eerie baron.

Dir. Roger Corman · With Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight

The untold origin story behind Ridley Scott's Alien - rooted in Greek and Egyptian mythologies, underground comics, the art of Francis Bacon, and the dark visions of Dan O'Bannon and H.R. Giger. A contemplation on the symbiotic collaborative process of movie-making, the power of myth, and our collective unconscious.

Dir. Alexandre O. Philippe · With Ronald Shusett, Roger Christian, Ivor Powell

A young farmer assembles a band of diverse mercenaries to defend his peaceful planet from an evil tyrant.

Dir. Jimmy T. Murakami · With Richard Thomas, Robert Vaughn, John Saxon

After his wife leaves him, a disillusioned director dives into the drug scene, trying anything his friend suggests.

Dir. Roger Corman · With Peter Fonda, Susan Strasberg, Bruce Dern

Sexually abused as a young girl, Kate "Ma" Barker grows into a violent and powerful woman by the 1930s. She lovingly dominates her grown sons and grooms them into a pack of tough crooks. The boys include the cruel Herman, who still shares a bed with Ma; Fred, an ex-con who fell in love with a fellow prisoner; and Lloyd, who gets high on whatever's handy. Together they form a deadly, bizarre family of Depression-era bandits.

Dir. Roger Corman · With Shelley Winters, Pat Hingle, Don Stroud

The head of a major cosmetics company experiments on herself with a youth formula made from royal jelly extracted from wasps, but the formula's side effects have deadly consequences.

Dir. Roger Corman · With Susan Cabot, Anthony Eisley, Michael Mark

The U.S. Navy's special group "Blue Water" builds a half-shark, half-octopus for combat. But the sharktopus escapes and terrorizes the beaches of Puerto Vallarta.

Dir. Declan O'Brien · With Eric Roberts, Kerem Bürsin, Sara Malakul Lane