Roger Corman Presents
Roger Corman Presents was a series of films made for Showtime by movie producer Roger Corman.[1]
Production
Showtime approached Corman with the idea of doing a series of science fiction and horror feature films. They started filming in January 1995 and finished shooting 13 films in mid June. Corman said, "I don't think a day went by that we weren't shooting. We were shooting on weekends, we were shooting at our studio here. We were shooting at local locations, and we shot one film in Moscow and one film in Manila. So we were all over the world with this thing."[2]
Corman ended up re-making two more films in the first season. According to Corman, "They were actually chosen by Showtime who did a lot of market research. I had said I didn't want to remake the Edgar Allan Poe pictures, because I didn't want to do those without Vincent, and also the period style of the pictures means that they're as new now as they were when they were made. Because the 19th century is the 19th century. Whereas the other pictures... being contemporary films could easily be remade, brought up to date, re-written for the '90s."[3]
The other nine were originals. Corman said, "One of them, we purchased a screenplay because we couldn't develop enough. We had three of the thirteen shot before this year, and I shot the other ten in five and a half months. We couldn't develop all the scripts so a picture called Terminal Virus was the script that we bought and it will be the last one to go on, and all the rest were scripts that we developed ourselves."[3]
The second season consisted of eleven films.[4]
Select Filmography
First Season
- Ep 1 – Suspect Device -aired 11 July 1995
- Ep 2 – The Alien Within aka Unknown Origin- 18 July 1995
- Ep 3 – Sawbones – 25 July 1995
- Ep 4 – Virtual Seduction – 1 August 1995
- Ep 5 – Burial of the Rats – 8 August 1995
- Ep 6 – Not Like Us – 15 August 1995
- Ep 7 – Black Scorpion – 22 August 1995 (USA)
- Ep 8 –
- Ep 9 – Not of this Earth – 5 September 1995
- Ep 10 – A Bucket of Blood aka Dark Secrets, The Death Artist – 12 September 1995
- Ep 11
- Ep 12 – Piranha – 1 October 1995
- Ep 13 – Terminal Virus – 3 October 1995
- Hellfire (1995)
- Where Evil Lies
- The Wasp Woman
Second Season
- Spectre aka House of the Damned- 13 July 1996
- Alien Avengers aka Welcome to Planet Earth – 3 August 1996
- Shadow of a Scream – 10 August 1996
- Subliminal Seduction – 10 August 1996
- Last Exit to Earth – 17 August 1996
- Humanoids from the Deep – 14 September 1996
- Death Game – 21 September 1996
- Vampirella – 28 September 1996
- Black Scorpion II – 13 May 1997
- Alien Avengers II – 25 October 1997
- The Haunted Sea
- Inhumanoid
References
- ^ Grimes, William (July 9, 1995). "Yikes! Roger Corman Is Back, Still". The New York Times. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
- ^ King, Susan (July 9, 1995). "Roger Corman: Master of His Cult". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 11, 2017.
- ^ a b "Interview Roger Corman". Cult Films. 19 March 2013.
- ^ "More Roger Corman Horrors on Showtime". Los Angeles Times. 13 July 1996.
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