Roger Corman, long known as the "King of the B's" (though never actually producing a strictly b-picture) wrote fast, shot faster and pounced on every oportunity to surprise and titilate an audience. The first to realise the potential in those new fangled "Teenagers" and quick to exploit cold war paranoia, he also tackled feminist issues and race relations decades before the rest of Hollywood caught up. This visionary producer/director was a frugal genius rinsing every last drop of value from unused sets and idle cast and crew. His gift for talent spotting saw him launch the carreers of countless A-list actors, writers and directors of the 60's, 70's an 80's including Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Bruce Dern, Dean Stockwell, David Carradine, Sylvester Stallone, Robert Towne, John Sayles, Francis Ford Coppola, Peter Bogdanovich, Martin Scorcese, Ron Howard, Joe Dante, Johnathon Demme, James Cameron…I could go on…

While his Edgar Allen Poe adaptations are rightly rated as true classics and his seminal counter-culture explorations are infamous it is the cult classics that slipped into the public domain that we are here to celebrate. Of the 50 or more films he directed around 15 became PD due to badly administered copyright and production house bankruptcy. Of those there are a handful that rank with the best he ever made…welcome to the world of Roger Corman in the Public Domain.

plus…the return of WEEKENDER/EXpac "Film In A Weekend" project…calling all potential cast & crew, sign up for "Psi-Fu II"…NOW!