documentary series (13x50)
Shout! Studios - U.S.
A multi-part documentary series about the life and works of legendary cinema director and producer Roger Corman, and his wife and business partner, Julie Corman.
creators / writers / producers
ASHLEY SIDAWAY & ROBERT SIDAWAY
with
ROGER CORMAN & JULIE CORMAN
Filmed over four months in Los Angeles, the series draws on a filmography spanning seven decades. The series offers viewers access inside the Cormans’ cinematic universe and features extensive in-depth interviews as they share stories and defining moments from their movies, recall talent and young filmmakers they mentored, as well as provide behind-the-scenes perspectives for the films they produced.
Corman, recipient of an honorary Oscar in 2009, produced more than 350 films and directed 60 others. He influenced a generation of Hollywood filmmakers and screen talent, including Jack Nicholson, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, James Cameron, Ron Howard, Peter Fonda, Jonathan Demme, Gale Anne Hurd, Diane Ladd, Tommy Lee Jones, Harry Dean Stanton, Sandra Bullock, Bruce Dern, Talia Shire, Charles Bronson, Joe Dante, Peter Bogdanovich and Sally Kirkland.
Julie Corman worked with Demme, John Sayles, Catherine Hardwicke, Robert King, Bill Pullman, Martin Sheen, Peter Billingsley, Jon Lovitz, and Mario Van Peebles, among others. She was chair of the graduate film department at NYU.
“It’s been a rewarding and emotional experience to share some of the great moments and memories from so many of our films over seven decades,” Roger and Julie Corman stated. “We have been privileged to work as independents in Hollywood that in a way has allowed us to bring our stories to the screen for audiences around the world. Our hope is that audiences get as much pleasure and fun from this series as we had making these films.”
Loaded with memorable clips, Cult-Tastic is an intimate and entertaining master class in the history of Roger and Julie’s celebrated filmography as told by the masters themselves. Discussed films span all genres, including horror (Piranha, Slumber Party Massacre) sci-fi (StarCrash, Galaxy Of Terror), action (Pit Stop, Eat My Dust!), comedy (Rock ‘N’ Roll High School, Hollywood Boulevard), drama (Suburbia, Nashville Girl), and fantasy-adventure (Deathstalker, Wizards Of The Lost Kingdom).
Some thoughts on 23 hours of interviews with Roger and Julie Corman and the 13 part series Cult-Tastic made for Shout! Factory which looks at their films and careers.
ALPHABETICAL LISTING
with posters and brief thoughts
War of the Satellites (1958) / Battle Beyond The Sun (1959) / Deathsport (1978) / Starcrash (1978) / Battle Beyond The Stars (1980) / Galaxy Of Terror (1981) / Nightfall (1988) / Dead Space (1991)
find out more: https://bit.ly/cult-future
Bloody Mama (1970) / Big Bad Mama (1974) / Crazy Mama (1975) / Great Texas Dynamite Chase (1976) / The Lady In Red (1979) / Big Bad Mama II (1987) / Dillinger And Capone (1995) / Shakedown (2002)
find out more: https://bit.ly/cult-criminal
A Bucket Of Blood (1959) / Little Shop Of Horrors (1960) / Eat My Dust (1976) / Hollywood Boulevard (1976) / Rock 'n’ Roll High School (1978) / Saturday The 14th (1981) / The Last Resort (1986)
find out more: https://bit.ly/cult-comic
High School Big Shot (1959) / The Final Comedown (1972) / Cockfighter (1974) / I Never Promised You A Rose Garden (1977) / Saint Jack (1979) / Suburbia (1983) / Love Letters (1984)
find out more: https://bit.ly/cult-real
The Cry Baby Killer (1958) / T-Bird Gang (1959) / High School Caesar (1960) / Wild Angels (1966) / Naked Angels (1969) / Angels, Hard As They Come (1972) / Nashville Girl (1976) / Black Oak Conspiracy (1977) / Hour Of The Assassin (1987) / Bloodfist (1989) / The Spy Within (1995)
find out more: https://bit.ly/cult-outsider
The Arena (1973) / The Hot Box (1972) / Barbarian Queen (1985) / Silk (1986) / Silk II (1989) / TNT Jackson (1975) / The Sisterhood (1988) / Caged Heat (1974)
find out more: https://bit.ly/cult-warrior
Wasp Woman (1959) / Piranha (1978) / Screamers (1979) / Forbidden World (1982) / Brain Dead (1989) / Watchers II (1990) / The Unborn (1991) / Piranha (1995) / Attack Of The 50 Foot Cheerleader (2011)
find out more: https://bit.ly/cult-mad
Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957) / Creature From the Haunted Sea (1961) / Night Of The Cobra Woman (1972) / Humanoids From The Deep (1980) / Demon Of Paradise (1986) / The Nest (1988) / Dinosaur Island (1994) / Dinoshark (2009) / Dinocroc vs. Supergator (2010)
find out more: https://bit.ly/cult-monster
Battle Beyond The Sun (1959) / Magic Voyage of Sinbad (1962) / Sorceress (1982) / Deathstalker (1983) / The Warrior And The Sorceress (1984) / Wizards of the Lost Kingdom (1985) / The Dirt Bike Kid (1986) / Deathstalker II (1987) / A Very Unlucky Leprechaun (1998) / Sting of the Black Scorpion (2003)
find out more: https://bit.ly/cult-fantasy
Battle of Blood Island (1960) / The Big Doll House (1971) / Student Nurses (1970) / Big Bird Cage (1978) / Avalanche (1978) / Jackson County Jail (1978) / Ultraviolet (1992) / After Shock (Quake) (1993) / Fire Over Afghanistan (2002)
find out more: https://bit.ly/cult-survival
Pit Stop (1969) / Women In Cages (1971) / Slumber Party Massacre (1982) / Cocaine Wars (1985) / Destroyers (1985) / Stripped To Kill (1987) / Eye of the Eagle (1988) / Nam Angels (1988) / Stripped To Kill II (1989) / Eye of the Eagle II: Inside the Enemy (1989)
find out more: https://bit.ly/cult-odds
The Last Woman on Earth (1960) / Death Race 2000 (1975) / Battletruck (1982) / Wheels of Fire (1985) / Equalizer 2000 (1987) / Crime Zone (1988) / The Terror Within (1989) / The Terror Within II (1990) / Future Kick (1991) / Raiders of the Sun (1992)
find out more: https://bit.ly/cult-end
Atlas (1961) / The Pit And The Pendulum (1961) / The Intruder (1962) / The Terror (1963) / Wild Angels (1966) / Student Nurses (1970) / The Big Doll House (1971) / Von Richfothen And Brown (1971) / Night Call Nurses (1972) / Young Nurses (1973) / Hollywood Boulevard (1976) / The Lady In Red (1979) / Battle Beyond The Stars (1980) / Slumber Party Massacre (1982) / The Dirt Bike Kid (1986) / The Last Resort (1986) / A Cry In The Wild (1990)
find out more: https://bit.ly/cult-memories
