Tracks Of The Damned

"The film industry will always exist, but it will no longer be the film industry." - Roger Corman

@craigglennon4417 11 years ago SKIDDING THE CAR, DE NIRO SHOULD BE ASHAMED, OF HIMSELF

"Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, or else for those resolute dead-enders, who have made up their minds to be content with the ersatz of Suchness, with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner." ― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception "Let's get Wavy!" ― Wavy Gravy

"This was a story about a group of society's unskilled, even illiterate, high school dropouts in a technologically advanced society. Some were psychologically maladjusted. They don't answer want ads for Draftsman, Tool and Die Maker, or Aircraft Fabricator. What is the life of a man with an 80 IQ? Janitor? Street sweeper? Gas station attendant? So why work in a demeaning job? They say: 'Fuck it, I...

"For what really occurred, however, it is quite impossible that any human being could have been prepared. As I rapidly made the mesmeric passes, amid ejaculations of "dead! dead!" absolutely bursting from the tongue and not from the lips of the sufferer, his whole frame at once -- within the space of a single minute, or even less, shrunk -- crumbled -- absolutely rotted away beneath my hands. Upon...

"What seem to be vestiges of the Jim Crow world in a sense are just that. But passage of the old order's segregationist trappings throws into relief the deeper reality that what appeared and was experienced as racial hierarchy was also class hierarchy. Now blacks occupy positions in the socioeconomic order previously available only to whites, and whites occupy those previously identified with blac...

"The tortures endured, however, were indubitably quite equal for the time, to those of actual sepulture. They were fearfully -- they were inconceivably hideous; but out of Evil proceeded Good; for their very excess wrought in my spirit an inevitable revulsion. My soul acquired tone -- acquired temper. I went abroad. I took vigorous exercise. I breathed the free air of Heaven. I thought upon other...

"@douglaswallace7680 1 month ago (edited) Roger  Corman at his best !   Starring looks - like - stars :  Humphrey  Bogart  and the  Mickey  Rooney brothers .   I am guessing they were busy the weekend that this film was made !   Kept it on 2.5 playback until  1:02:45 to see a t. Urd with 2 eyes ." "Everything dies baby, that's a fact but maybe everything that dies some day comes back" - Bruce Spri...

"During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was — but, with the first glimpse of the building,...

"As Kallis later recalled: "I told Roger, 'I'm doing very classy stuff with Saul Bass for the best studios.' Roger said, 'What would it take to get you?' I said, 'If, after we had general conversations about the approach to the picture, you'd leave all the decisions to me, I might be interested–and I'll give you a fixed price.' That appealed to Roger greatly!" It was the break Kallis needed. He wa...

Tom Weaver: So you did all of your own stunts in the film? Susan Cabot: Every bit of running, jumping, tackling, fighting and falling you see in that film, I did myself. One thing I remember in particular was that, as I attacked each character, I was supposed to bite their necks and draw blood. As I pierced the neck, to get the drama of the moment Roger wanted to see the blood. And so as I attacke...

"The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love." ― Tennessee Williams, Suddenly Last Summer "The first screenplay Griffith wrote was Cardula, a Dracula-themed story involving a vampire music critic. After Corman rejected the idea, Griffith says he wrote a screenplay titled Gluttony, in which the protagonist was "a salad chef in a restaurant who would wind up cooking...

"The ambitious artist, the artist who wanted Success, now had to do a bit of psychological double-tracking. Consciously he had to dedicate himself to the antibourgeois values of the cenacles of whatever sort, to bohemia, to the Bloomsbury life, the Left Bank life, the Lower Broadway Loft life, to the sacred squalor of it all... Not only that, he had to dedicate himself to the quirky god Avant-Gard...

It's finally here! The worst Roger Corman movie has produced the very worst episode of this podcast! Whole five minute stretches of me saying nothing! Don't listen to this!

Tell your old lady to keep her wise cracks behind her teeth or she's gonna be wearing false ones!  

"I watched it for a little while I love to watch things on TV" - Lou Reed Halfway through this project from hell and Corman is still growing more powerful.

"@garypavlick5825 1 year ago I love the underlying tones in Corman films. I'm only, 58 so, these films were made: 10 years before I was born. And,  didn't air on tv. They were  midnight drive in movie's. Come the 80s. They were gone by then. About, 25 years ago. I found these on DVD. Compilation discs. I was hooked! The decade of the B film invasion. the beatnik era. The exposure of the back scene...

"CG: The Woolner brothers came to the Garden of Allah and we had a meeting in the Garden, where all the stars used to sneak away to make out. They wanted a gang picture, as it was the time of the street gangs and juvenile delinquents. I told them I had one called "The Rat Pack" and they said they wanted a girl gang. So I got to work on Teenage Doll, which was Larry Woolner taking the title of [Eli...

"Someday, you'll find all who love are blind when your heart's on fire You must realize smoke gets in your eyes" - The Platters "Now you know nothing, before, you knew a whole fucking lot Your ass don't wanna get shot" - ODB

"Come back, come back, come back, Bridey Murphy back to the place you once knew in a land where you were so happy and to those who loved you so true" - "The Ballad of Bridey Murphy", Eddy McKean The Undead is the past life of Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe movies. What did he keep, what (and who) did he ditch, and did women really have such drastic support garments in 1347 or whenever this is supp...

"Guy N. Smith wrote his first horror novel, Werewolf by Moonlight, in 1974 published by New English Library (NEL). It spawned two direct sequels. However, he states it was Night of the Crabs, published in 1976, that really launched his career as a writer. Spawning 11 sequels, the latest of which was published in 2019, the series chronicles invasions of various areas of the British coastline by gia...

"If I do not receive blood within four chronoctons of time, I will have no need of emotion."   "I wear my sunglasses at night So I can, so I can Watch you weave then breathe your story lines" Charles B. Griffith starts to spread his wings. 

Charles B. Griffith stumbles upon a new scenario to endlessly repeat for Roger Corman. Turns out, it's the same as the old scenario. In the meantime Beverly Garland cooks, Dick Miller finds his voice and we all listen to a lot of steel guitar.

The shoot was rough on everyone. Alison Hayes, a very witty, humorous actress, came up with the best line of all. "Tell me, Roger," she said, soaking wet and cold, "who do I have to fuck to get off this picture?" - How I Made A Hundred Movies In Hollywood (And Never Lost A Dime) by Roger Corman with Jim Jerome The end of the Corman western pushes the Corman woman to the fore, while horrible weathe...

"He learned almost too late that man is a feeling creature... and because of it, the greatest in the universe. He learned too late for himself that men have to find their own way, to make their own mistakes. There can't be any gift of perfection from outside ourselves. And when men seek such perfection... they find only death... fire... loss... disillusionment... the end of everything that's gone...