April 5, 2024

This Day in Halloween: Iconic B-movie producer and director Roger Corman is born in Detroit, Michigan in 1926. / Illustration by Cheyenne Knehans

Director Roger Corman is born in Detroit, Michigan in 1926. The iconic B-movie producer/director has over 400 credits to his resume, including horror, action, and westerns including Little Shop of Horror, Death Race 2000 and a series of films based on stories from Edgar Allan Poe, several of which featured Vincent Price. 

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