Working for the legendary Roger Corman meant getting the best film school money could buy. It also, sometimes, meant recutting, adding to, and transforming one movie into four. kathymchacon digs into the producer's wackiest business venture:
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The story begins in an ancient Roman amphitheater in Yugoslavia. Corman was approached by a man named Georgi, a representative of a state-run studio, with a ready-to-shoot crime script and a proposition. “If you can give us a leading man, the lead heavy, and someone to handle the English dialogue, we will shoot it and give you the English rights for twenty thousand [dollars],” he recalls in his autobiography. Corman read the script that day and, within a few hours, the deal was closed.
Rothman’s additional scenes transformed Hill’s original psycho killer story into a monstrous vampire film. According to, 37 minutes of Jack Hill’s work and 20 minutes of Rothman’s reshoots. The film was released in drive-in theaters as the B-picture to Curtis Harrington’sTrack of the VampireOperation TitianMuch like the behind-the-scenes stories of this wild Corman venture, the films themselves get messier and messier with each additional revision.
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