Filmmaker spotlights
The B movie king who hired Scorsese, Coppola and Cameron
Roger Corman made B movies on tiny budgets and hired Scorsese, Coppola and Cameron early. Relay has 17 of his films.
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Movies
He wrote the lead for his professor. His actor father took it
Asleep in My Palm (2024) began as a student's script for his professor. His actor father, Tim Blake Nelson, took the lead.
Movies
A Marine filmed the Iraq invasion for a book, not an audience
Severe Clear (2009) is built from a Marine's own camcorder tapes of the 2003 Iraq invasion, shot for a book, not for an audience.
Movies
King Kong's animator worked on this London sea monster
Behemoth the Sea Monster (1958) has stop-motion effects supervised by Willis O'Brien, the animator behind King Kong.
Movies
The 1915 silent film that popularized the word "vamp"
A Fool There Was (1915) launched the vamp craze and made Theda Bara an overnight star, though she was no vampire.
Movies
The Sopranos creator's first screenplay was a vampire film
Grave of the Vampire (1972) was David Chase's first screenplay, a low-budget horror film about a vampire's son who hunts his father.
Distributor spotlights
Why Chaplin and Pickford started their own film company
In 1919, Chaplin, Pickford, Fairbanks and director D. W. Griffith founded United Artists to control how their films were sold.
Distributor spotlights
The cowboy studio behind Roy Rogers and a young John Wayne
Republic Pictures made fast, cheap Westerns and serials from 1935, and turned Roy Rogers into a star.
Distributor spotlights
The 1940s B movie studio that made 179 films on tiny budgets
PRC made cheap B movies in the 1940s. One, Detour, became the first B movie in the National Film Registry.
Lists
Zombie movies: from voodoo slaves to a £45 camcorder film
A zombie film made for a reported £45, a voodoo sequel that lost a lawsuit, and Boris Karloff's last roles.
Lists
Slasher movies: where the genre came from, in 8 films
Before the masked killers, there was a mystery on an island, an Italian puzzle and a caterer.
Filmmaker spotlights
In the early 1950s, she was Hollywood's only woman director
Ida Lupino was a Hollywood star who started her own company so she could direct, and made The Hitch-Hiker in 1953.