Roger Corman Filmography

Born:: April 5, 1926 in Los Angeles, CA
Occupation:: Director, Executive Producer, Producer
Biography:: A former engineering student, Roger Corman entered the picture business as a messenger and ended up a producer/director after a stint as a story analyst and a brief detour to Oxford University. After returning to Hollywood, he saw an opportunity to make money and gain experience by making...Read More

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Death Race

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jason Statham, Tyrese Gibson, Ian McShane, Joan Allen, Natalie Martinez

Synopsis: The Transporter star Jason Statham takes the wheel in director Paul W.S. Anderson's remake of the Roger Corman classic about a hyper-violent cross-country race that breaks all of the traditional rules of the road. The time is the not-so-distant future, and as America's prisons begin overflowing Read More

8/22/08
Spine Tingler!: The William Castle Story

Actors: John Waters, Terry Castle, John Landis, Roger Corman, Joe Dante

Synopsis: Over the course of a Hollywood career that spanned five decades, William Castle directed dozens of movies and earned a reputation as a clever hand with a low-budget thriller, but the movies he made aren't always as well remembered as the way he sold them to the public. During the Fifties and Read More

2007
Searchers 2.0

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Del Zamora, Ed Pansullo, Jaclyn Jonet, Sy Richardson, Roger Corman

Synopsis: Two actors who owe their entire careers to the western genre seek revenge against a legendary screenwriter who once mistreated them on the set of an early film in this eclectic send-up of The Searchers from Repo Man director Alex Cox. Mel and Fred have been acting in westerns since as far back as Read More

2007
Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows

Actors: Roger Corman, Glenn Gabbard, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Val Lewton, Alexander Nemerov

Synopsis: While his name was known to only the most obsessive film fans during the course of his career, Val Lewton produced a handful of low-budget horror movies in the 1940's that had a revolutionary impact on the genre. Working within a special production unit at RKO Pictures, Lewton's films were mood Read More

2007
Hunt For Eagle One: Crash Point

Crew: Producer

Actors: Mark Dacascos, Theresa Randle, Jeff Fahey

Synopsis: The battle continues as the fearless Marines who single-handedly took on Al-Qaeda return to thwart a deadly terrorist plan to steal an anti-hijack device and crash an airplane into a top-secret U.S. Military Intelligence base in a non-stop, adrenaline-charged action thriller starring Mark Read More

2006
Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen

Synopsis: Edgar G. Ulmer was one of the most fascinating figures of Hollywood's Golden Age. While Ulmer directed the occasional big-budget major studio film (most notably The Black Cat starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi and The Strange Woman with Hedy Lamarr), Ulmer was a maverick who valued his Read More

7/29/05
Bloodfist 2050

Crew: Executive Producer

2005
DinoCroc

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Costas Mandylor, Charles Napier, Jane Longenecker, Joanna Pacula, Max Perlich

Synopsis: "It feeds on fear!" read the advertising tagline for this Roger Corman-produced shocker. What could be scarier than a rogue crocodile, except maybe a rogue dinosaur? How about a combination thereof -- a DinoCroc? Hoping to create a cheap alternative to expensive prescription medicines, the greedy Read More

2004
A Decade Under the Influence

Actors: Steven Soderbergh, Paul Thomas Anderson, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Altman, Peter Bogdanovich, Ellen Burstyn

Synopsis: In the late '60s, American culture experienced a period of change as the youth movement challenged conventional attitudes about politics, sex, drugs, and gender issues, while the advancement of the Vietnam War found many citizens questioning the actions and wisdom of their government for the first Read More

4/25/03
Barbarian

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Michael O'Hearn, Martin Kove, Yuri Danilchenko

Synopsis: Straight from Roger Corman's New Concorde film company comes Barbarian, a low-budget remake/pseudo-sequel to the even smaller-budgeted video gem The Deathstalker. This time, it's three-time Mr. Universe Michael O'Hearn as the Barbarian who has to battle the forces of darkness, lead by the vile Read More

2003
Rage and Discipline

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Dennis Cintron, Troy Johnson, Amin Act Joseph, Joe Suba, Danni Ne'Cole

Synopsis: The low-budget drama Rage and Discipline tells the tale of a young man who spends a great deal of time training to be a professional fighter. In order to make a living he also sells drugs. Soon his criminal life compromises his dreams, and the young man fully embraces the most dangerous aspects of Read More

2003
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls

Actors: Dede Allen, Peter Bart, Andrew Cohen, Tony Bill, Karen Black

Synopsis: Based upon Peter Biskind's book of the same name, this BBC-produced documentary traces the rise of a generation of Hollywood filmmakers who briefly changed the face of movies with a more personal approach that pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable onscreen. Influenced by such European Read More

2003
Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies

Synopsis: Pauline Kael once wrote that since movies were so rarely great art, if one weren't interested in great trash, there wasn't much reason to pay attention to them, and one could reasonably argue that few periods brought us more top-quality cinematic trash than the 1950s and '60s. With drive-ins and Read More

2001
A Galaxy Far, Far Away

Actors: Christopher Vogler, Roger Corman, Meat Loaf, Joe Pesci

Synopsis: No other series of films has achieved greater commercial success, or captured the attention of as many viewers, as Star Wars, its two sequels, and the continuing series of prequels. Filmmaker Tariq Jalil had long been fascinated by the passionate following the films inspired, and when the Read More

2001
Scream 3

Actors: David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox Arquette, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Foley

Synopsis: Wes Craven's Scream (1996) was a half-parody/half-tribute to the first wave of slasher films of the 1970s and 1980s, and since most of them spawned a large number of sequels, it's only appropriate that Craven and screenwriter Kevin Williamson produced a third installment of their Scream franchise. Read More

2/4/00
Doorway

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: This silly but absorbing horror film from executive producer Roger Corman's New Concorde studio concerns four college students who accept an offer of ten thousand dollars to fix up an old house. What they don't know is that the house was owned by a cult of devil worshippers in the 17th century and Read More

2000
Nightfall

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jennifer Burns

Synopsis: Gwyneth Gibby directs the Roger Corman-produced release of Nightfall, a straight-to-video release based on the highly acclaimed science fiction story by Isaac Asimov. Filmed in India, the story takes place on a planet that lives in the constant light of six suns. Every thousand years, the suns Read More

2000
The Game of Death

Crew: Producer

Actors: David Morrissey, Jonathan Pryce, Catherine Siggins, Paul Bettany, Neil Stuke

Synopsis: Roger Corman revives his tradition of bringing low-budget literary adaptations to the screen with this stylish reworking of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Suicide Club, directed by Rachel Samuels. Lev L. Spiro strips the book down to its essence while also devising subplots that are not in the Read More

2000
Henry James' The Ghostly Rental

Crew: Producer

Actors: Michael York, Andrew Bowen, Claudia Christian, Aideen O'Donnell

Synopsis: In this period thriller, college student James (Andrew Bowen) discovers that his girlfriend is pregnant. He convinces her to have an abortion, and they make arrangements with a "doctor" for the clandestine operation. However, the abortionist proves dangerously incompetent, and James's sweetheart Read More

1999
Black Thunder

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Vince Connors (Michael Dudikoff) is an Air Force test pilot who has been helping to perfect the Mach 2 fighting jet, a state-of-the-art weapon which incorporates special stealth technology which makes the plane invisible to both radar and the human eye. However, a band of Libyan terrorists have Read More

1998
Some Nudity Required

Actors: Maria Ford, Julie Strain, Jim Wynorski, Odette Springer

Synopsis: In this documentary, filmmakers Odette Springer (former music supervisor for Concorde-New Horizons) and Joanna Demetrakas take a look at the exploitative world of grindhouse gore, and trashy slasher films. Trained in classical music, Springer turns self-analytical in this movie memoir, asking Read More

1998
Humanoids From the Deep

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Emma Samms, Robert Carradine, Mark Rolston, Justin Walker

1997
Circuit Breaker

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Richard Grieco, Lara Harris, Corbin Bernsen, Brittany Ashton Holmes, Edie McClurg

Synopsis: Here's something new in the annals of made-for-cable movies: a dysfunctional family of three in outer space. Coming across a derelict spaceship, Foster Carver (Corbin Bernsen), his wife, Katrina (Lara Harris), and their daughter, Amy (Brittany Ashton Holmes), rescue the vessel's sole survivor, a Read More

1996
Apollo 13

Actors: Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris, Kathleen Quinlan

Synopsis: "Houston, we have a problem." Those words were immortalized during the tense days of the Apollo 13 lunar mission crisis, and the suspense, fear, and excitement of those days are captured in Ron Howard's epic recreation of the 1970 crisis. When the commander of the original mission Ken Read More

6/30/95
One Night Stand

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ally Sheedy, A. Martinez, Frederic Forrest, Diane Salinger, Don Novello

Synopsis: When a woman hopes that a night of passion will grow into something deeper, she finds that her new beau may have some secrets in this erotic thriller. Ever since her divorce, Michelle Sanderson (Ally Sheedy) has tried to focus on her career in advertising, but she's become terribly lonely, and Read More

1995
Terminal Virus

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: James Brolin, Bryan Genesse, Kehli O'Byrne

Synopsis: A handful of brave survivors must contend with an unusual sort of post-apocalyptic crisis in this science fiction drama. The earth has been decimated in the wake of World War III; while massive thermonuclear attacks wiped out most of the major cities, an experimental biological weapon was released Read More

1995
Black Rose of Harlem

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Set in the roaring '20s amidst the chaotic jazz clubs of Chicago, gangster Johnny Varona embarks upon a forbidden love affair with Georgia, a beautiful black chanteuse. While racism plays a part in dooming the relationship, the most damning factor is Constanza, Johnny's bloodthirsty boss and Read More

1995
The Crazysitter

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: When an ex-con manages to schmooze her way into being a high-priced nanny for a rich family, she promptly tries to control the family's two adorable moppets. Unfortunately for her, the kids are none too keen on starting an early career in a sweat shop, and with Home Alone-like aplomb, they manage Read More

1995
Droid Gunner

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Marc Singer

Synopsis: Sometime in the future, cyborg units are threatening to take over the Earth. After their use is outlawed, four female androids are smuggled onto the planet, and it's up to Jack Ford (Marc Singer) to track them down. His efforts to do so take him on a journey from Phoenix to the underwater city of Read More

1995
First Works: A Revealing Look at Today's Greatest Directors, Vol. 1

Synopsis: This documentary examines the first films of some top Hollywood directors, featuring interviews with the filmmakers and clips of their early student films, as well as some of their blockbuster hits. The program explores how each director learned from early mistakes, and seeks to illuminate the Read More

1995
Bram Stoker's Burial of the Rats

Crew: Producer

Actors: Adrienne Barbeau, Kevin Alber

Synopsis: This softcore exploitation effort from the Roger Corman stable is a peculiar attempt to reinvent Bram Stoker's story as a T&A film featuring marauding babes in rat-pelt bikinis. The story posits an Amazonian group of Victorian-era lesbians who have formed a colony under Queen Adrienne Barbeau. Barbeau Read More

1995
No Dessert Dad, 'til You Mow the Lawn

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Joanna Kerns, Robert Hays, Richard Moll, Larry Linville, Josh Schaefer

Synopsis: Anxious to quit smoking, a married couple tries hypnosis. When their opportunistic children see how well it works, they decide to use the techniques to improve the quality of their lives. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1994
Angel of Destruction

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Maria Ford

Synopsis: Angel of Destruction stars female martial-arts expert Maria Ford in the title role. In the tradition of the "B" westerns of Yore, Ford sets out to avenge her sister's murderer. She's essentially a woman of peace, though she leaves a lot of her opponents in pieces. There's gore galore before she Read More

1994
The Spy Within

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Alex (Theresa Russell is a government agent who trades sex for state secrets. Will (Scott Glenn) is a taciturn demolition expert troubled by a violent past. When the two find themselves being pursued by the same nefarious spy ring, bullets start flying and bedsprings start creaking. ~ Jonathan Read More

1994
Stranglehold

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Inside a top-secret chemical weapons base, a master criminal takes a Congresswoman hostage. Only one man can stop the lunatic from unleashing the forces of evil against an unsuspecting American population. That man is Ryan Cooper, government special agent and one-man killing machine. ~ Jonathan Read More

1994
Runaway Daughters

Actors: Paul Rudd, Julie Bowen, Dee Wallace, Jenny Lewis, Holly Fields

Synopsis: Some teen girls take to the road in this made-for-cable remake of the 1956 original. Set in 1957, three guy-crazy friends take to the road in a stolen car, trying to track down one of their ex-lovers before he goes off into the Navy. The film is part of Showtime's "Rebel Highways" series of Read More

1994
Reflections on a Crime

Crew: Producer

Actors: Mimi Rogers, Billy Zane, John Terry, Kurt Fuller, Lee Garlington

Synopsis: This prison thriller is told in a series of flashbacks that lead to doubts about the guilt of a Death Row inmate. Mimi Rogers stars as Regina, a prisoner waiting for the date of her execution for the murder of her husband, James (John Terry). Curious about his beautiful charge, a prison guard Read More

1994
Cheyenne Warrior

Crew: Producer

Actors: Kelly Preston, Pato Hoffmann, Bo Hopkins, Rick Dean, Clint Howard

Synopsis: This made-for-TV western stars Kelly Preston as Rebecca Carver, who is travelling west with her husband Matthew (Charles Powell), trying to outrun the draft for the Civil War. Needing to rest for the night, they stop at a trading post run by Barkley (Dan Haggerty), where they encounter a pack of Read More

1994
Saturday Night Special

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Maria Ford

Synopsis: Director Dan Golden's remake of Marcus De Leon's 1992 erotic thriller Kiss Me a Killer stars Maria Ford as the femme fatale who lures a country-western singer into murdering her sadistic bar-owner husband. Executive producer Roger Corman, who also released De Leon's film, made a career of re-using Read More

1994
Revenge of the Red Baron

Crew: Producer

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Tobey Maguire, Laraine Newman, Cliff De Young, Ronnie Schell

Synopsis: In this "sequel" to Roger Corman's 1971 Von Richtofen and Brown (produced by Corman himself), a toy World War I plane belonging to a young boy (Tobey Maguire) is possessed by the spirit of the deceased Red Baron. The possessed plane begins killing people with real bullets from a toy machine gun. Read More

1994
Fantastic Four

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Carl Ciarfalio, Joseph Culp, Alex Hyde-White, Jay Underwood, Rebecca Staab, Michael Bailey Smith

Synopsis: Unreleased to the general public and infamous for its poor quality within geek circles, this Roger Corman adaptation of the Marvel Comics supergroup is an interesting cult item that ranks up there with the dismal Captain America feature and the cheap Hulk TV movies. The story of the film goes back Read More

1994
Grey Knight

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Night of the Living Dead meets Gone with the Wind, in which the Blue and the Gray have to battle the Ghoulish and the Undead. When the Confederate army accidentally unleashes a supernatural voodoo baddie, the spirit starts organizing an army full of dead soldiers, and soon a take-no-prisoners Read More

1993
Kill Zone

Crew: Producer

Actors: David Carradine

Synopsis: With the Philippines again standing in for Vietnam, this low-budget actioner stars David Carradine as a ruthless, renegade American army colonel who disobeys orders to sneak his crack team into Cambodia to destroy a Viet Cong supply train. But when he steps over the line and after much convoluted Read More

1993
Live by the Fist

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: A Navy SEAL gets himself tossed into a seething Filipino prison after his attempts to stop a gang rape fail and he is accused of killing the girl. This low-budget martial arts actioner chronicles his struggle to survive and escape the hellish jail. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1993
Dracula Rising

Crew: Producer

Actors: Christopher Atkins, Stacey Travis, Doug Wert

Synopsis: This Roger Corman production was undoubtedly conceived to capitalize on the success of Francis Ford Coppola's romantic vampire epic Bram Stoker's Dracula, though the Count himself is not actually a character. The story involves LA artist Theresa (Stacey Travis), who has fallen under the sensual Read More

1993
Home for Christmas

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: In this comedy-adventure for the family, Heather (Jennifer Love Hewitt) is a girl who can't stand her foster parents, so one day she runs away from home in order to track down her real mother. However, Heather's stepmother wants her back -- not because she cares about her, but because Heather is Read More

1993
Philadelphia

Actors: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Jason Robards, Jr., Mary Steenburgen, Antonio Banderas, Ron Vawter, Joanne Woodward

Synopsis: At the time of its release, Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia was the first big-budget Hollywood film to tackle the medical, political, and social issues of AIDS. Tom Hanks, in his first Academy Award-winning performance, plays Andrew Beckett, a talented lawyer at a stodgy Philadelphia law firm. The Read More

1993
Bloodfist V: Human Target

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: An FBI agent finds himself the target of both his agency and arms dealers when his undercover gig is found out and he loses his memory after an attack. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

1993
Body Bags

Actors: Mark Hamill, Stacy Keach, David Warner, John Carpenter, Roger Corman, Wes Craven, Deborah Harry, Tobe Hooper, Sam Raimi

Synopsis: Horror virtuoso John Carpenter hosts this goofy horror anthology, originally produced for Showtime as a gory stepchild of HBO's Tales from the Crypt series. Playing an emaciated, eye-rolling "coroner," John introduces the audience to a triptych of creepy vignettes in the EC horror-comics mode Read More

1993
Dragonfire

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: In this futuristic kick-boxing outing set in the next century, astronaut Laker Powell comes back from his latest mission and discovers that his brother, a pro kick-boxer has been slain. It is a violent time and the police are too overwhelmed with cases to pay much attention, so he decides to Read More

1993
One Man Army

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jerry Trimble

Synopsis: Kickboxing champ Jerry Pelt (Jerry Trimble) is the One Man Army of the title. Not that he dons khaki or anything, it's just that Jerry proves more than a match for a batalion of bad guys. It seems that a small-town bigwig has arranged for the murder of Jerry's grandfather. With the law on the Read More

1993
Carnosaur

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Diane Ladd, Raphael Sbarge, Jennifer Runyon, Harrison Page, Clint Howard

Synopsis: One of the more popular features from Roger Corman's "B"-factory Concorde/New Horizons, Carnosaur perpetuates the grand Corman tradition of zeroing in on a big-budget Hollywood studio moneymaker, then dashing off a quick-and-dirty poor man's version before moss gets a chance to grow on the larger Read More

1993
Bloodfist III: Forced to Fight

Crew: Producer

Actors: Don "The Dragon" Wilson, Richard Roundtree, Greg McKinney, Rick Dean, Richard Paul

Synopsis: Action hero Don "The Dragon" Wilson appears in this third, quickie sequel to Bloodfist. Wilson plays Jimmy Boland, who has been sentenced to a California maximum-security prison for a murder that he didn't commit. When he sees some black prison inmates sodomizing his friend, he flies into a rage Read More

1/3/92
Munchie

Crew: Producer

Actors: Loni Anderson, Dom DeLuise, Andrew Stevens, Jaime McEnnan, Arte Johnson

Synopsis: A loose sequel of the 1987 Munchies film, this movie turns the tables by offering the travails of a good Munchie (voice by Dom DeLuise). Found in an abandoned mine by a young boy (Jaime McEnnan), the creature offers to make all of his dreams come true, including help with bullies and bad grades. Read More

1992
Ultraviolet

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: A couple suffering marital problems are terrorized by a mad killer who takes the wife as a hostage in their motor home after he wounds and leaves her husband behind. Travelling across the desert, she tries again and again to stop the crazed kidnapper as her husband attempts rescue. ~ Kristie Read More

1992
Blackbelt

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Don "The Dragon" Wilson

Synopsis: Don "The Dragon" Wilson from the Bloodfist series is back in another Roger Corman-produced action film. Here, he uses his martial-arts prowess to defend rock-and-roll singer Shanna (Deirdre Imershein) from a vicious serial killer (Mathias Hues). It's filled with stock characters like the "corrupt Read More

1992
Homicidal Impulse

Crew: Producer

Actors: Vanessa Angel, Scott Valentine

Synopsis: Scott Valentine stars as an assistant D.A. who has an affair with an office intern (Vanessa Angel), who is the homicidal niece of his ill-fated boss. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1992
Angel Fist

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Cat Sassoon fronts this Roger Corman produced martial arts adventure that tells the tale of a tough LA cop who heads to Manila to investigate the murder of her sister. She was working there as a kickboxing FBI agent who photographed the execution of a US military man. Before she is killed, she Read More

1992
The Assassination Game

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Robert Rusler, Theodore Bikel, Denise Bixler, Doug Wert

Synopsis: In this political espionage thriller, a rookie CIA agent is unofficially assigned to keep a fanatical Lithuanian assassin from vengefully killing Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader whom the killer blames for the death of his own family. The film was made during the Eastern bloc political tumult Read More

1992
Blackbelt 2: Fatal Force

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: In this martial arts actioner a brave fighter travels from LA to Honolulu to the Southeast-Asian jungle to get revenge upon those who murdered his brother. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1992
Bloodfist IV: Die Trying

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: In this martial arts thriller, a repo man accidentally brings back the wrong car and finds himself in deep trouble with the LAPD, both national security organizations, and a ring of international gun runners. When someone kidnaps the repo man's daughter, he uses his fists of fury to get bloody Read More

1992
Raiders of the Sun

Crew: Producer

Actors: Richard Norton

Synopsis: Raiders of the Sun is a Filipino variation of Mad Max. In a post-apocalyptic world, warrior Richard Norton does what he can to survive. Since society was laid low by a biological mishap, provisions are at a premium, and the villains will do anything to grab up all they can for profit. Norton is a Read More

1992