Rest in pulp: Noah and Eliza's new marathon memorialises the low-budget brilliance of Roger Corman, Hollywood's cult B-Movie pioneer who died this May. Although the guy might now be best known as a one-man film school (responsible for sparking the careers of Coppola, Scorsese, Demme, Cameron and many more), we're startin' off our look at Corman's own directorial output with two black-and-white early-ish works.

One's a provocative, stark drama about small-town racism and the other's a smart lil black comedy lampooning the art world—but both'll whet your CORMANIA as we dive into a filmmaker who quietly shaped Hollywood's 1960s landscape. Enter our lil shop of horrors, if u dare...

SHOW NOTES:

• Interview with Roger Corman on the Blockbusters podcast
• Interview with Roger Corman on Post Mortem with Mick Garris