3 Cult Classics that Roger Corman Actually Directed

Shout Factory has been putting out the motherlode of Roger Corman product with its Roger Corman ’s Cult Classics series — but a young set features three weird masterpieces that Corman actually directed . Including Attack of the Crab Monsters .

accord toa great write - up in the Memphis Commercial Appeal , Crab Monsters has been gruelling to get a copy of :

For a long clock time , “ Attack of the Crab Monsters ” — a unfeignedly eldritch , even phantasmagorical film — has been intemperate to see except in shoddy bootleg copies or via the occasional boob tube broadcast . That ’s no longer the case , thanks to the latest entry in the Shout ! mill label ’s on-going “ Roger Corman ’s Cult Classics ” collection , a two - phonograph recording videodisc ternary feature of 1950s goodness dubbed “ Sci - Fi Classics : Attack of the Crab Monsters , War of the Satellites , Not of This Earth . ” ( These three moving picture go together because they originally were distributed by Allied Artists , while most of Corman ’s other 1950s projects were released by American - International . )

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On the other hand , I ’ve actually seen Not of This Earth on former - nighttime cable sometimes . The third photographic film , War of the Satellites , features model study so ludicrous , you may spot a thumb in a important spaceship - dock scene . The DVD lot explains how Corman made these moving picture for $ 50,000 each , and filmed them in a hebdomad or so .

The films are full of ludicrous concepts . The monster mutate crab not only eat people , they digest their consciousness and cognition — so when a crab louse eats a French scientist , it start “ speaking ” with a fake Gallic emphasis . And the crab use metal to convey their brainwaves , so in one scene , a gun starts talking .

More awesome facts about , and appreciation of , these neglected Corman masterpieces at the link . [ Commercial Appeal ]

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