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Los Angeles: Oscar-winning ‘King of the Bs’ Roger Corman, who helped create low-budget classics such as ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ and ‘Attack of the Crab Monsters’, has died. He was 98. According to Variety, Corman breathed his last on May 9 at his home in Santa Monica, California, surrounded by family members.
In a statement, his family expressed grief and said, “His films were revolutionary and symbolic, and reflected the spirit of an era. When asked how he would like to be remembered, he said, ‘I was a filmmaker, that’s all.'” Let us tell you, “Corman’s empire, which existed in several incarnations, including New World Pictures and Concorde/New Horizons, was as active as any major studio and, he claimed, was always profitable.
He specialized in fast-paced, low-budget genre films — horror, action, science fiction, even some family movies — and his company became a training ground for a variety of major talents, from actors like Nicholson (“Little Shop of Horrors”) and De Niro (“Boxcar Bertha”) to directors like Francis Ford Coppola (“Dementia 13”) and Scorsese (“Boxcar Bertha”).
