On this day in Horror History, Roger William Corman was born. A giant in horror cinema, the Detroit native who started with aspirations of being an engineer while studying at Stanford would go on to become one of the most prolific and celebrated film-makers of all time. As a Producer, Director and Writer of more than 400 Motion Pictures, Corman’s legacy has given the world the most incredibly eclectic and notorious movies of the horror genre. Everything from The Terror (1963) and The Little Shop of Horrrors (1960) to Sharktopus (2012), Corman has perfected film production with a savvy and brilliance that is envied among those in the industry. Author of ‘How I Made A Hundred Movies In Hollywood And Never Lost A Dime’, he has proven that his method of practical effects and approach to the medium which he has become iconic, is not only responsible for one of the most dynamic catalogues in the history of the silver screen but is a catalyst for some of the biggest names of today.
Discovering and mentoring directors Jonathan Demme, Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, John Sayles, James Cameron, Joe Dante, and Martin Scorsese, as well as such actors as Jack Nicholson, Charles Bronson, Robert De Niro, Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Diane Ladd, and Sandra Bullock… Corman has given cinema the gift of 50+ years and hundreds of cherished films, as well as inspiring the minds behind countless more.
“All my films have been concerned simply with man as a social animal.”-Roger Corman
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