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
We continue #WHATTHEFoctober with a gem from the New World Video library: 1987's CITY OF SHADOWS! This Canadian thriller about cops, family secrets, and bribing people with pizza comes from writer/directors David Mitchell and Damian Lee, whose production company Rose & Ruby Productions was responsible for another New World Video gem, RENO AND THE DOC, and WATCHERS for Concorde Pictures, Roger Corman's subsequent comp...
Come give Granny a hug this week on #WHATTHEFoctober: where we talk about movies we had NO IDEA New World Pictures made or released. It’s a month packed fresh full of deep cuts and hard to find (and believe) oddities. We kicked the month off with a bang, and this week we share the programmed love that only a robotic grandmother can give in the 1982 TV movie The Electric Grandmother. Distributed by Learning Corpora...
Come, one and all, to #WHATTHEFoctober: where we talk about movies we had NO IDEA New World Pictures made. It's a month of deep cuts and B-sides for those of you that remember vinyl records. We're starting off with a bang, or lava flow, or air disaster, or tornado with 1977's CATASTROPHE. This little hidden gem is a documentary that explores some of history’s most devastating real-life disasters, from ...
To close out #SEXtember FORE! (play), we're going back to the beginning of New World Pictures' history with 1970's THE STUDENT NURSES, one of the studio's earliest releases! Directed and co-written by Stephanie Rothman, the film set the template for many New World films to follow! The film follows four student nurses who keep themselves busy not being students and not nursing - okay, two of them, so, half- but instead s...
We continue #SEXtember FORE: Play with an early entry in the Ciro Santiago New World Pictures canon: 1973's FLY ME! It's a film about three nurses, er, sorry, teachers, nope, flight attendants, that's it, working a flight from Los Angeles to Hong Kong, each of whom have their own adventure. Toby is the new flight attendant and she's really learning the ropes, but, not to worry, her mom is along for the ride to help her make s...
We continue #SEXtember: FORE-play!! with a BLUE LAGOON rip-off - 1982's PARADISE. Like the BLUE LAGOON, PARADISE spends a significant amount of time exploring what happens when scantily-clad young adults are stranded in the desert and discover each other's body parts are super interesting. The real plot of PARADISE, though, is the life and times of Geoffrey - the aging man-servant.
Geoffrey should be r...
Dear Listeners it's hard to believe but it's that time of year again! That's right #SEXtember is upon us, and we are starting off the month with a BANGER (pun intended) that definitely answers the question; Where Did I Come From?
A 1985 animated educational movie....short film....cartoon....all three... featuring a duck that explains in great animated detail exactly where babies come from and how they are made. Stop readi...
We were saddened to discover that R.J. Kizer, a longtime editor and director for New World Pictures, passed away earlier this month. We were fortunate to be able to speak with R.J. several times about his incredible and long career, starting with editing 1979's UP FROM THE DEPTHS, 1980's BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS, and 1981's GALAXY OF TERROR before moving on to directing the English-language sections of GODZILLA 1985 and co-dir...
We continue #HAHAugust 3: Rule of Threes with a staple of cable television: 1981's SATURDAY THE 14TH, the directorial debut of screenwriter Howard R. Cohen (COVER GIRL MODELS, DEATHSTALKER) and produced by Julie Corman. Joining us inside this monster-filled house is writer/director/editor Joseph Scrimshaw, who also recently made his own directorial debut with the horror/comedy DEAD MEDIA. Or is it a horror/comedy? We discuss!...
We continue #HAHAugest 3: Rule of Threes with former New World Pictures vice president and head of business and legal affairs, Paul Almond! Paul began his long career working for Roger Corman's lawyer Barbara Boyle and then the studio itself where he helped negotiate the deal for Corman's infamous Lumberyard Studio in Venice, California, where New World films like BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS and GALAXY OF TERROR were filmed...
It's #HAHAugust III y'all. A time for us to kick up our heels and have a good laugh. We couldn't think of a better way to kick off a month of belly laughs than with 1987's BEYOND THERAPY. Even the name of the movie (and stage play) is funny. It's full of super funny actors too including Julie Hagerty (AIRPLANE!), Jeff Goldblum (TRANSYLVANIA 6-500), and Christopher Guest (WAITING FOR GUFFMAN). It's dire...
To close out #SciFiJuly: An Infinity of Titles, we going all-out by bringing back editor/director R.J. Kizer, who edited a variety of films for New World Pictures, to talk to us about GALAXY OF TERROR! R.J. was one of film's editors and worked on the most infamous scene in the entire film (hint: there's a worm)! We go truly behind the scenes, as R.J. describes the working conditions for editors on Roger Corman's infamous Lumb...
We continue #ScifiJuly: An Infinity of Titles with the inspiration for this month's themed title: 1981's GALAXY OF TERROR! Roger Corman's second foray into science fiction shot at the Lumberyard Studio in Venice California featured an all-star cast and production design from James Cameron, Robert and Dennis Skotak and the rest of the crew Corman assembled for BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS, but, this time, Cameron also directs...
We continue #SciFiJuly: An Infinity of Titles with a giant interview with director and visual effects supervisor Ernest Farino! From an early age, Ernest was fascinated by special effects and his love for filmmaking would take him from creating the stop-motion creature in 1978's THE ALIEN FACTOR to Los Angeles and working for Roger Corman at the Venice Lumberyard studio on films like GALAXY OF TERROR and beyond! There, he wou...
Sci-fi July: An Infinity of Titles keeps on rolling with 1986's STAR SLAMMER aka PRISON SHIP aka STAR SLAMMER: PRISON SHIP aka THE ADVENTURES OF TAURA: PRISON SHIP STAR SLAMMER. Directed Fred Olen Ray, STAR SLAMMER (aka PRISON SHIP aka... you get it) blends comedy with sword and sandal movies, women in prison movies, sci-fi movies and girls just want to have fun movies into a taught hour and 26 minutes.
STAR SLAMM...
Sci-fi July: An Infinity of Titles has landed! Listeners Sci-fi July is going to out of this world this month starting with a banger 1986's sci-fi western, THE AURORA ENCOUNTER. We are joined this week by special guest James Kirkland making his NWPP debut. James is a comedian, actor, author of the The Bill Walton Mysteries series of books, and you may have seen or heard his work on his podcast: MicroDrama Doses, where h...
The time has come, dear listeners. The end of June Gloom 2: Down to Frown. We hope you enjoyed this annual, well, bi-annual -okay, occasional - trip into the dark abyss of the "saddies" released by New World Pictures. And for our closing film, do we have a sad film for you: 1978's AUTUMN SONATA aka HÖSTSONATEN, written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, and starring Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ullmann and Lena Nyman. It's a real Bergman...
A bucket list guest, director Fritz Kiersch, returns with the second half of our conversation that covers his move from the commercial world to the New World (ahem) of features starting with 1984's CHILDREN OF THE CORN and continuing with 1985's TUFF TURF as Fritz continued to deliver success after success for New World Pictures. And because the movies Fritz directed were so well received, he was one of the few director...
June Gloom 2: Down to Frown is upon us dear listeners, and things are dark. Lucky for you, and us, we are joined this week by special guest and NWPPVIP Tommy Bechtold! Tommy is a comedian, and actor, and if you have been fortunate enough to see Tommy perform stand up or listened to our episodes on DEF-CON 4, BEVERLY HILLS VAMP, TRIAL OF THE INCREDIBLE HULK, you know he is hilarious. Truly a ray of sunshine in this other...
June Gloom 2: Down to Frown is officially underway, and we are kicking it off with the 1980 British drama RICHARD'S THINGS, starring Liv Ullmann and Amanda Redman.
RICHARD'S THINGS is the story of Kate, a woman whose husband Richard has the decency to die before the movie even really gets going, leaving behind his things — and, as Kate slowly pieces together, his mistress. What follows is a methodical, quivering-lipped j...
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