![]() Nicholson to allow him to make a film in colour and with a substantially greater budget than the rest of his films up to that point. Of course, Corman had a problem in persuading AIP producers Samuel Z. Vincent Price as Roderick Usherįor his venture into the Gothic revival, Corman turned to American writer Edgar Allan Poe for his subject matter. ![]() Two months later the same year as The House of Usher, Italian director Mario Bava created a Gothic horror boom in Italy and other continental countries beginning with Black Sunday (1960). The success of these and the host of other remakes, sequels and original subjects that Hammer would conduct over the next decade inspired a huge interest in Gothic horror. Corman was clearly inspired by the success that England’s Hammer Films had had in the previous few years with their new colour adaptations of The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) and Dracula/The Horror of Dracula (1958). This is something that began here with The House of Usher. There is another half to the Corman legend and that is Roger Corman the serious filmmaker. (See the bottom of the page for a list of Roger Corman’s other genre films). There is one part of the cult, a large part fostered by Corman himself, that celebrates Roger Corman the legendary B movie director/producer – Corman who could make a movie in two days (including the time taken to write the script) who could take footage from Russian science-fiction films and write not one but three entire films around it who could come in under shooting schedule on one film and decide on the spot to shoot another film using the same sets and stars and who had the unerring eye to pick up and coming talent, including giving early career breaks to names like Jack Nicholson, Ron Howard, Joe Dante, Francis Ford Coppola, Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Fonda, Jonathan Demme and James Cameron among others, because he knew they would work for peanuts to get a toehold in the industry.Ĭorman began producing with the detective film Highway Dragnet (1954) and then started directing with the Western Five Guns West (1955) but it was at AIP (American International Pictures) that he made a name for himself churning out cheap but entertaining B-monster movies and exploitation films. There is a cult that surrounds Roger Corman.
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