Ernest R. Dickerson
The DP and director on the fantastic potential in image-making/-seeing, learning to photograph the world, and the possibility of a Demon Knight sequel.
Gremlins
Joe Dante, who got his start in show business cutting trailers for Roger Corman’s New World Pictures, has always placed a premium on the momentary turbulence that exists between shots.
The Comedy of Terrors
After the relative success of American International Pictures’ 1963 release of Roger Corman’s The Raven, the studio quickly reunited the same fearsome trio of Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, and Boris Karloff for The Comedy of Terrors.
The Velvet Vampire
It was Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (1957) that inspired Stephanie Rothman to make movies. She studied filmmaking at the University of Southern California, became the first woman to be awarded a Directors Guild of America fellowship, and went on to work as a valued assistant for exploitation titan Roger Corman (also, as it happens, a big Bergman fan).