– cinema's pulp genius whose talent to shock was rocket fuel

was the powerhouse of B-pictures and pulp classics, who in a staggeringly prolific career lasting from the 1950s to the 2010s produced more than 400 movies, and directed more than 50 – films such as The Wasp Woman, A Bucket of Blood, The Wild Angels,, Little Shop of Horrors and The Man With the X-Ray Eyes.

Corman was the entrepreneurial life force of low-budget independent cinema with celluloid in his veins, who became a living icon of cinephilia to generations of movie-makers by giving them their all-important first breaks and a lesson in getting movies made effectively, on budget and on schedule.

It’s amazing to see how many templates Corman laid down for later cinema. In 1960, he directed my favourite of his films,, an utterly bizarre no-budget horror comedy made over two days and a night about a weird houseplant in a flower store that lives off human blood. In 1982, it became a smash-hit Broadway stage musical and four years after that another movie, based on the stage show that is still endlessly revived.

Gangsters and crime weren’t exactly the Corman keynote, but he made powerfully effective and successful movies in that style, directing Machine-Gun Kelly in 1958, launching the career of Charles Bronson, and also the fierce Bloody Mama in 1972 with Shelley Winters as the real-life outlaw Ma Barker and a young Robert De Niro as one of her sons. The film has some startling archive footage, incidentally, of the huge Ku Klux Klan rally in Washington.

There is the rocket-fuel of Corman’s talent, fuel that he generously made available to so many other, younger film-makers.

Source: Entertainment Trends (entertainmenttrends.net)

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