The New World Pictures Podcast

The New World Pictures Podcast

The New World Pictures Podcast is dedicated to every movie released by New World Pictures. We talk about the things we loved and the things we hated along with the detailed history of each film's history and production. Founded by the infamous Roger Corman, New World Pictures was responsible for the greatest genre and exploitation films of the 1970's and 1980's. Remember all those movies that lived proudly in the Action, Horror, Comedy and Sci-Fi isles of the video store? Titles like Death Race 2000, Hellraiser, Heathers and Piranha. They were all made by New World Pictures. In addition to talking about the films themselves, we talk with the Writers, Producers and Directors who worked with New World Pictures.

Episodes

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

April 30, 2025 • 46 mins
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 may sound a bit like TEEN WOLF, but don't worry, it's not, because this time it's about a vampire. Once we saw this little gem, ...
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Ep. 145: Beverly Hills Vamp featuring Tommy Bechtold

April 24, 2025 • 86 mins
#VAMPril 2: Double Suck continues as we explore the dark and mysterious graveyard of vampire films produced by New World Pictures.  This week, we are joined by the always hilarious Tommy Bechtold as we discuss 1989's BEVERLY HILLS VAMP starring Eddie Deezen (WAR GAMES), Britt Ekland (MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN) and Tim Conway Jr. (KFI, AM 640). 

Imagine, if. you will, a film that mixes the comedy/action of BEVERLY HILLS...
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Corman Graduates: Jack Hill Part 1 with Calum Waddell

April 16, 2025 • 79 mins
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 filmmaker Calum Waddell, who literally wrote the book on Jack Hill with 2009's Jack Hill: The ...
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Ep. 144: Nick Knight featuring Dirk Marshall

April 9, 2025 • 90 mins
It's that time again: VAMPril! Specifically VAMPril 2: Double Suck! Once again we return to the world of bloodsuckers for another month! And there's no better way to start than with NICK KNIGHT, a movie-length TV pilot starring Australian rock star Rick Springfield! And joining us is returning guest Dirk Marshall from the VH US podcast (https://www.vh-us.com/), who we knew would be equally impressed with the surprisingly good ...
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5th Annual Roger Corman Birthday Celebration

April 3, 2025 • 57 mins
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 (Marc) didn't read the email and watched an entirely different movie.  This year, we decided to try something d...
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Bonus Episode: Interview with Editor Barbara Pokras (SUMMER SCHOOL TEACHERS, FADE TO BLACK)

March 26, 2025 • 66 mins
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 New World Pictures, where she went to work dubbing voices and assisting director Stephanie Rothman on New...
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Ep. 143: The Big Bird Cage featuring Ali Davis

March 19, 2025 • 106 mins
Listen up, #PrisonMarch is back this week for more of Prison MarcH 2: Second Offense! This week's women-in-prison movie released by New World Pictures is 1972's THE BIG BIRD CAGE written and directed by Jack Hill and starring NWPP favorites Pam Grier, Sid Haig, and Vic Diaz. Returning again for the fifth time to dish out her thoughts on this flick is the fantastic Ali Davis! You may remember Ali from one of her four previous e...
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Ep. 142: The Big Bust-Out featuring Chris Iannacone

March 13, 2025 • 99 mins
That's right, #PrisonMarch is back for Prison Marc H 2: Second Offense! Once more, we plumb the depths of the women-in-prison movies released by New World Pictures, this time with an Italian knock-off created after New World's THE BIG DOLL HOUSE became a huge success! Yes, plenty of studios were making knock-offs by 1973, but only Roger Corman would popularize a subgenre and then also release a knock-off of the very thing he p...
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Bonus Episode: Interview with Editor Alan Toomayan (EATING RAOUL, LUST IN THE DUST)

March 5, 2025 • 77 mins
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 producer Julie Corman, Alan has done it all!

Moving on from New World, Alan worked on THE HOWLING where he met d...
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Ep. 141: The Tin Drum

February 26, 2025 • 68 mins
 We close #FFFebruary (Foreign Film February) with an Academy Award winner! Director  Volker Schlöndorff's 1979 adaptation of THE TIN DRUM! Based on the book of the same name by Günter Grass, the film shows the rise of authoritarianism in Europe prior to World War II through the life of self growth stunting,  drum banging and screaming Oskar (David Bennent), whose ability to shatter glass with his voice is no comparison to his...
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Ep. 140: The Harder They Come

February 19, 2025 • 69 mins
Do you know how much reggae is played in San Diego? Marc and Ryan do, and Erica sort of does, which makes the NWPP the perfect podcast to discuss Jamaica's first film, 1972's THE HARDER THEY COME, as we continue #FFFebruary (Foreign Film February)! A foreign film where the only language used is English? You bet! But, if you think you won't need subtitles, you'd be wrong (or from Jamaica)!

Jimmy Cliff stars in this mus...
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Ep. 139: The Story of Adele H

February 12, 2025 • 59 mins
Welcome to Foreign film February! This month we will explore some of the foreign films of New World Pictures! FFF, as it's affectionately known, starts off with A LOT of heart (maybe even a little too much heart) with the tragic STORY OF ADELE H directed by Francois Truffaut. Set in 1863 - oh la la mon ami a period piece - we follow a young woman (Isabelle Adjani, POSSESSION) in her absolute QUEST in pursuit of her love intere...
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Bonus Episode: Interview with Editor/Director James Melkonian (THE JERKY BOYS, NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER, EAT AND RUN)

February 5, 2025 • 90 mins
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. 81) - just about everything at New World, especially once he took over th...
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Ep. 138: God Told Me To

January 30, 2025 • 80 mins
We wrap up #FANuary - where listeners chose what we watched across all our social media accounts - with Larry Cohen's 1976 classic GOD TOLD ME TO!  Independently financed then released by new world Pictures, Cohen's strange odyssey of a New York police detective whose investigation yields way more than he ever bargained for is truly a genius piece of cinema that only Larry Cohen could have created!

Filled with an inc...
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Ep. 137: Tax Attack 87

January 20, 2025 • 53 mins
Welcome to #FANuary, where we talk about the movies you, the listener, asked us to discuss.  Our first entry in #FANuary is 1987's TAX ATTACK 87, a Learning Corporation of America production staring comedian Robert Klein (SNL).  Learning Corporation of America was owned by New World Pictures and focused on educational videos like In the FOR SAFETY'S SAKE: IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD starring Gary Coleman.  By the way, if you haven't l...
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3rd Annual Worldies and Our Running Top/Bottom 5 2024 Edition

January 15, 2025 • 81 mins
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 former guests and NWPPVIPs like We invited former guests and NWPPVIPs to help us present these prestigious awards including:
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Nearly New World: Chopping Mall

December 21, 2024 • 65 mins
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 we fangirl on malls, robots, and snacks!  We discuss the Sherman Oaks Galleria, Erica's work histo...
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Ep. 136: The Initiation

December 12, 2024 • 72 mins
We continue #DIEcember 2: Slay Bells Ring with another obscure slasher, 1984's THE INITIATION. This one is filled with family secrets, sharp hand rakes, and hot - temperature hot - sex. It's a movie about the power of dreams or at least the power of attraction that comes from participating in a sleep study. It's about a mother's sacrifice, and how, no matter what you do, it doesn't matter. It's about real dads and fake dads an...
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Ep. 135: Mountaintop Motel Massacre featuring Ryan Verrill

December 5, 2024 • 78 mins
We kick off #DIEcember 2: Slay Bells Ring with everyone's character rich slasher, 1983's MOUNTAINTOP MOTEL MASSACRE.  Or, if you'd prefer, MOUNTAINTOP MOTEL.  Or, as we would call it, "MOTEL MASSACRE NOT ON A MOUNTAIN". Staring Bill Thurman (THE LAST PICTURE SHOW), Anna Chappell (THE MAN IN THE MOON), and Major Brock, a guy who was working as a baggage handler for Delta before director Jim McCullough found him and put him in t...
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Ep. 134: Queenie

November 26, 2024 • 80 mins
We end #NOvember, where we watch movies with originally said "no" to, with QUENNIE, a 1987 TV Miniseries made by New World Television and, later, released by New World Video. An adaptation of a novel by Michael Korda which told the story of his real-life aunt, the actress Merle Oberon. Now, Korda's aunt may be real, but the story is, well, let's just say Michael had fun filling in the details. What true and what's not, we may ...
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