As we close out #VAMPril 2: Double Suck, we have a special interview with a movie that truly delighted us during the first VAMPril, and that’s 1989’s TEEN VAMP. Released on VHS by New World Video, this curio stars Beau Bishop as Murphy Gilcrease, a nerdy teen in the 1950s who becomes a vampire, which…
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We’re unveiling a new series on the podcast: Corman Graduates, where we chronologically discuss the filmography of a director who went through “the Roger Corman school of filmmaking” and we’re starting with Jack Hill, director of films like TEH BIG DOLL HOUSE and COFFY. Joining us for this first episode is writer, film historian, and…
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For the fifth year in a row, the New World Pictures Podcast celebrates the work of director/producer Roger Corman by watching his past work and sharing what we loved and what we hated.As you might recall from our first Roger Corman Birthday Celebration, we all planned to watch the same movie but one of us…
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We close out #PrisonMarch 2: Second Offense with an interview with someone who there at New World from the very beginning: editor Barbara Pokras! After graduating from USC (where she went to school with Dan O’Bannon with whom she would work on RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD), Barbara found her way to Roger Corman’s newly-formed…
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Everyone has a different path at New World Pictures, but Alan Toomayan may have had one of the strangest! From driving RVs on movie sets to working as a Production Assistant on New World’s GRAND THEFT AUTO and driving Ron Howard around to moving into the editing room for SATURDAY THE 14TH and working with…
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It’s time for another New World interview, this time with editor/director James Melkonian, who started as an intern at New World Pictures before climbing the ladder all the way to VP of Post-Production! James spent five years at New World, toiling away on a wide range of projects – GODZILLA 1985 (Ep. 108), THE PUNISHER (Ep. 121), REFORM SCHOOL GIRLS (Ep….
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It’s that time again, the most wonderful time of the year: award season! And no award show is more prestigious than the Worldies, the only show that covers all the movies we covered last year! It’s a celebration! And joining us to hand out these very real and important awards are a few of our…
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We are wrapping up the merry month of #DIEcember II: Slay Bells Ring with a well-known cult classic: 1986’s CHOPPING MALL aka KILLBOTS. This Nearly New World film was written and directed by Jim Wynorski in his first film for Roger and Julie Corman following working at New World in the publicity department.Join us as…
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John Penney returns to the podcast! Following our TORMENT reunion episode alongside his cohorts Earl Ghaffari (WAYNE’S WORLD) and Scott Alexander (ED WOOD), John is back to discuss his time working as an assistant editor for New World movies BODY ROCK, GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN, and THE STUFF (as well as RETURN OF…
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We were shocked to discover that 1987’s Adventures in Babysitting doesn’t have a DVD or Blu Ray audio commentary. After interviewing screenwriter David Simkins in 2022, we asked if he would be willing to record an audio commentary for Adventures in Babysitting and, to our delight, he agreed to do it. In typical NWPP…
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