Roger William Corman was an American film director and producer. Known under various monikers such as "The Pope of Pop Cinema", “King of the Beatnik Movies”, "The Spiritual Godfather of the New Hollyw
Corman in 1978
Drive-in advertisement from 1957 for the double feature, Attack of the Crab Monsters and Not of This Earth. Corman films were popular on the drive-in circuit, and generally marketed towards a teenage audience.
Barboura Morris and Susan Cabot in a scene from The Wasp Woman (1959)
House of Usher (1960), Corman's first Edgar Allan Poe adaptation
American International Pictures, LLC is an American film production company owned by Amazon MGM Studios. In its original operating period, AIP was an independent film production and distribution compa
Roger Corman
…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…
Roger Corman's The Raven (1963)
Drive-in advertisement for the double feature, I Was a Teenage Werewolf and Invasion of the Saucer Men. AIP double features were popular on the drive-in circuit.
Drive-in advertisement for Psych-Out, 1968