Roger Corman
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RIP revered genre film fixture Dick Miller. I always loved that he played the same part in two of these Corman productions, 30 years apart: twitter.com/robweychert/st…
A Bucket of Blood
Robtober 2014
A month’s worth of movies to help you stay awake
Every October, I try to watch as many horror/suspense films that I haven’t seen before as possible. Dates and times (subject to change) are listed for any friends who want to join me.
The Devil’s Backbone
After Carlos – a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War – arrives at an ominous boys’ orphanage, he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets which… See more →
Robtober 2012
A month’s worth of movies to help you stay awake
Every October, I try to watch as many horror films that I haven’t seen before as possible.
Corman’s World
A documentary on DIY producer/director Roger Corman and his alternative approach to making movies in Hollywood.
Not of This Earth
An alien agent from the distant planet Davana is sent to Earth via a high-tech matter transporter. There, he terrorizes Southern California in an attempt to acquire blood… See more →
My contribution to the 2012 edition of @notcoming’s 31 Days of Horror covers three generations of Not of This Earth: notcoming.com/reviews/notoft…
Not of These Earths
There is little I enjoy quite as much as spending an entire afternoon in a movie theater, so I often lament the fact that I missed out on the heyday of the double feature. Of course, in this day and age, I’m able to curate my own double (or triple, or quadruple) features in the privacy of my own home, which I do often. I might watch a string of sequels, a pair of films… See more →
The Wasp Woman
Not of This Earth
Corman’s World
To begin with, I have no small amount of reverence for Roger Corman. Untold hours of my youth were spent in front of a 13″ television that screened the most outrageous low-budget horror movies my local video store had to offer. Aside from the cheap thrills provided, there was something inspiring about their scrappy production values: a sense that limited resources and skills need not obstruct one’s dreams, and that a creative endeavor’s ostensible shortcomings… See more →