The New World Pictures Podcast

Bonus Episode: Interview with director Brian Trenchard-Smith (ESCAPE 2000/TURKEY SHOOT, DEAD END DRIVE-IN)

July 31, 2025 00:50:38

A lot has happened over #SciFiJuly Presents: Dystopian Summer 2: Dystopian HARDER. For one, we celebrated our 150th New World Pictures title with ESCAPE 2000 aka TURKEY SHOOT and now we close out the month with an interview with the film’s director, Brian Trenchard-Smith, who returns to the show! We get into the beginnings of…

The New World Pictures Podcast

Bonus Episode: Interview with director Brian Trenchard-Smith (ESCAPE 2000/TURKEY SHOOT, DEAD END DRIVE-IN)

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Nearly New World: Wheels of Fire

July 16, 2025 00:51:36

We are coming in hot (think wearing leather pants in the desert hot) for #SCI-FI-JULY Presents: Dystopian Summer 2: Dystopian HARDER. This week, we talk about WHEELS OF FIRE, a nearly New World movie directed by the famous/infamous Cirio H Santiago and starring Gary Watkins (Hunter), Laura Banks (Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan)…

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Nearly New World: Wheels of Fire

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Bonus Episode: Interview with Jeff Schechtman (PIRANHA, PIRANHA II: THE SPAWNING, BODY ROCK)

July 2, 2025 01:06:19

Producer and former New World Pictures Senior Vice President of Production Jeff Schechtman joins us to talk about his career at New World, starting with 1978’s PIRANHA and into the post-Roger Corman era where he also producer 1984’s BODY ROCK! From starting out as an Assistant to the Producers on projects like TRUCK TURNER, BLACK…

The New World Pictures Podcast

Bonus Episode: Interview with Jeff Schechtman (PIRANHA, PIRANHA II: THE SPAWNING, BODY ROCK)

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Corman Graduates: Jack Hill Part 3 with Elijah Drenner

June 19, 2025 01:33:09

In our continuing series on exploitation filmmaker Jack Hill, director Elijah Drenner (THAT GUY DICK MILLER, AMERICAN GRINDHOUSE) joins us to discuss Jack’s women-in-prison films he made for Roger Corman’s New World Pictures: THE BIG DOLL HOUSE and THE BIG BIRD CAGE. With 20 years of experience making featurettes and extras for Blu-rays and DVDs…

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Corman Graduates: Jack Hill Part 3 with Elijah Drenner

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Bonus Episode: Interview with Editor Daniel Gross (UNDER THE BOARDWALK, THE ANNIHILATORS)

June 5, 2025 01:12:24

One of the biggest inflection points for New World Pictures was when Roger Corman bought a former lumberyard and turned it into a studio to shoot BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS, which jumpstarted many careers from James Cameron to this week’s guest, editor Daniel Gross! Daniel may have started with New World on BATTLE, but he…

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Bonus Episode: Interview with Editor Daniel Gross (UNDER THE BOARDWALK, THE ANNIHILATORS)

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Audio Commentary: The Death of the Incredible Hulk

May 29, 2025 01:34:38

We close out Marc’s Miserable Marvelous May 3: Très Misérables with an audio commentary that lets us revisit 1990’s THE DEATH OF THE INCREDIBLE HULK, the third and final of the INCREDIBLE HULK TV movies produced by New World. Directed by and starring Bill Bixby, we once again see David Banner attempting to rid himself…

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Audio Commentary: The Death of the Incredible Hulk

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Corman Graduates: Jack Hill Part 2 with Elle Schneider

May 22, 2025 01:33:25

For our second episode in the “Corman Graduates: Jack Hill” series, we talk with director, writer and cinematography, Elle Schneider (THE FOOD THAT BUILT AMERICA, PLEDGE NIGHT: AN INTERVIEW WITH ROGER CORMAN, BLISS BLUE, THAT GUY DICK MILLER), about Jack Hill’s MONDO KEYHOLE and PIT STOP. In addition to being friends with Dick Miller and…

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Corman Graduates: Jack Hill Part 2 with Elle Schneider

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Bonus Episode: Interview with writer/actor George “Beau” Bishop (TEEN VAMP)

April 30, 2025 00:46:43

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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Bonus Episode: Interview with writer/actor George "Beau" Bishop (TEEN VAMP)

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Corman Graduates: Jack Hill Part 1 with Calum Waddell

April 16, 2025 01:19:21

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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Corman Graduates: Jack Hill Part 1 with Calum Waddell

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5th Annual Roger Corman Birthday Celebration

April 3, 2025 00:57:48

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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5th Annual Roger Corman Birthday Celebration

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