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  • Known for his keen eye in spotting raw talent, the Roger Corman Early Films Collection features Hollywood's brightest talent beginning their journey on the walk of fame.
Big Bad Mama Special Edition
Big Bad Mama

Get ready to rumble as a beautiful young widow breaks up her teen daughter's wedding and hits the road on an outlaw voyage to Waco, Texas. Making pit stops for armed robbery and a mother-daughter striptease, Angie Dickinson's Big Bad Mama teaches her girls the real facts of life.

Bonus features:

  • "Mama Knows Best: A Retrospective" — a compelling look back at the Corman classic featuring all new interviews with Roger Corman, director Steve Carver; stars Angie Dickinson and William Shatner; and writers William Norton and Frances Doel
  • All new feature length commentary with Roger Corman and Angie Dickinson
Big Doll House
Big Doll House

"Big Doll House was the second film for my new company New World Pictures and I wanted a sure hit. Hollywood had a long tradition of women-in-prison movies and no one had done one recently. While the script of Big Doll House was originally set in Los Angeles, I realized I could get a bigger-looking film for the same money in the Philippines. So I sent director Jack Hill there with a number of great-looking women, including Pam Grier, who left her job as a secretary. Big Doll House broke drive-in records and launched a new series of successful films for me." — Roger Corman

Pam Grier joins a group of sexy young female prisoners in their struggle against a sadistic warden. This shocking film is perhaps one of the most influential of all women-in-prison films!

Bonus features:

  • Leonard Maltin Interview With Roger Corman
  • Original Trailer
  • Cast Biographies
Brain Dead
Brain Dead

"A brilliant puzzle-film with a chillingly good story that offers the same kind of pleasure as The Sixth Sense, which it predated. Riveting intense performances by Bill Pullman and Bill Paxton pull you into a harrowing and haunting world." — Roger Corman

The Eunice Corporation is on the ground floor of an exciting growth industry, utilizing a memory resculpting technique bioneered by eccentric neurosurgeon Rex Martin. It envisions nationwide clinics where anyone can lose their hang-ups of an unhappy childhood, a failed romance, or a botched career. At Eunice's "New You" outlets, a simple operation will give customers peace of mind. Or it might leave them brain dead. But when Martin refuses to cooperate, he soon finds himself plunged into a surreal existence that intertwines dreams and reality. Has Martin slipped over the edge into madness? Or have corporate profit mongers given him a push, making him the guinea pig in his own experiment? To know the answer is to know the terror!

Bonus features:

  • Cast Biographies
  • Theatrical Trailer
Caged Heat
Caged Heat

"I first met Jonathan Demme when he was living in London. After serving as my unit publicist during my directing of Von Richthofen, Jonathan and his friend Joe Viola approached me with their script which they described as a motorcycle Rashomon. I eventually made it under the title Angels Hard As They Come with Jonathan producing. After second unit directing the women in prison film The Hot Box for me (which he also co-wrote and produced), Jonathan asked if he could direct his own feature. I decided not to finance the project, but agreed to distribute it because I admired Jonathan's work. The result was Caged Heat." — Roger Corman

Thrown into the penal hell of Connorville, petty criminal Jacqueline (Erica Gavin) must fight against the ruthless inmates, a cruel warden (Barbara Steele) and her depraved staff. Eventually, she forms an uneasy friendship with two hardened inmates. When these three unite, they find themselves on a sexy and violent adventure seeking escape, money and revenge!

Bonus features:

  • Cast & Crew Biographies
  • Leonard Maltin's Exclusive Interview with Roger Corman
  • Original Trailer
Cheyenne Warrior
Cheyenne Warrior

It was a romantic time of adventure in the old west as the country erupted into Civil War. In the midst of the chaos, a love story like no other unfolded. Rebecca Carver (Kelly Preston), a young, expectant mother, and her husband are attacked by a gang of vicious outlaws while traveling west. With her spouse brutally murdered, Rebecca is left stranded in a remote post. There she finds a fierce Cheyenne Warrior badly wounded by the same band of savage cutthroats who killed her husband. What follows is a tender story of love and revenge triumphing over fear and prejudice.

Bonus features:

  • Original Trailer
  • Director's Commentary
  • Cast Biographies
  • Writer's Commentary
Death Race 2000 Special Edition
Death Race 2000

"#1 Coolest B-Movie Of All Time!" — Maxim Online

In the year 2000, hit & run has become the national sport. It's a no-holds barred cross-country race, in which the aim is to kill off not only your opponents, but as many pedestrians as possible. David Carradine takes on Sylvester Stallone in this classic adrenaline thriller that will make you look both ways twice before you cross.

Bonus features:

  • Playing The Game: Looking Back At Death Race 2000" — a compelling look at the Corman Classic featuring all new interviews with Roger Corman, actor Martin Kove, actress Mary Woronov and writer Charles Griffith.
  • All new feature length commentary with Roger Corman and Mary Woronov
Fire On The Amazon
Fire On The Amazon

Deep in the hot and steamy Amazon jungle, activist Alyssa Rothman (Sandra Bullock) helps a brash photojournalist (Craig Sheffer) investigate the assassination of a famous environmentalist at the risk of their own lives.

Bonus features:

  • Original Trailer
  • Cast Biographies
I Never Promised You A Rose Garden
I Never Promised You A Rose Garden

"While One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest offered a subversive and satirical look at a psychiatric institutions, Rose Garden delivered a dramatic, emotionally compelling portrait of a young woman's experience of psychiatric treatment. This Oscar®-nominated screenplay was adapated from the best-selling novel by Hannah Green. It features a critically acclaimed performance by a young Kathleen Quinlan in an extremely challenging role. Shot with stark realism, the film pulls no punches in it depiction of a psychiatric ward, while maintaining individual and sensitive portrayals of the hospital's residents." — Roger Corman

In her critically acclaimed performance, Kathleen Quinlan inhabits Deborah, a mentally ill teen who struggles between fantasy and reality, escaping to her own imaginary world. Deborah is sent to a psychiatric hospital for treatment by Dr. Fried (Ingmar Bergman favorite Bibi Andersson), who must attempt to rescue Deborah from the cruel beauty of her inner world.

Bonus features:

  • Video Interview With Kathleen Quinlan
  • Cast Biographies
Jackson County Jail
Jackson County Jail

"This movie stars the young Tommy Lee Jones in the kind of role that is his hallmark. In this controversial and action-packed story, Tommy Lee Jones plays an outlaw on the run with more integrity and certainly more 'cool' than the society that condemned him. His is so unnervingly convincing and commanding that it doesn't even seem to be a performance." — Roger Corman

Used, abused, and accused of a crime she didn't commit, a woman (Yvette Mimieux) breaks out of jail and goes on the run with a fellow prisoner (Tommy Lee Jones).

Bonus features:

  • Leonard Maltin's exclusive interview with Roger Corman
  • Original Trailer
  • Cast Biographies
My Brother's War
My Brother's War

Retired C.I.A. agent Adam Hall (James Brolin) has been called in to locate and neutralize Liam Fallon, an armed and dangerous renegade IRA terrorist who has begun a campaign of murder and mayhem designed to end the peace talks. Hall must employ the help of Liam's brother Gerry, a convicted terrorist responsible for killing Hall's sister, in order to get to Liam. Pitting brother against brother, Hall has his work cut out for him in this dramatic, action-paced thriller.

Bonus features:

  • Original Trailer
Rock 'N' Roll High School Rock On Edition
Rock 'N' Roll High School

Vince Lombardi High School has quite a reputation: it's the wildest, most rockin' high school around! That is, until a thug of a principal, Miss Togar, comes along and tries to make the school a totalitarian state. With the help of the Ramones, the students of Vince Lombardi battle Miss Togar's iron-fisted rule and take their battle to a truly rockin’ conclusion!

Bonus features:

  • "Back To School: A Retrospective" — the making of the movie with all-new interviews with Allan Arkush, Roger Corman, Joe Dante, Dey Young, Marky Ramone, Loren Lester and more!
  • All new feature length commentary with Roger Corman and Dey Young.
Suburbia
Suburbia

"Quite a few directors share and reflect the youthful rebellion and pop culture of their own generation. Penelope Spheeris is unique in that she uses her counter-culture sympathies to explore the lives, music, and attitudes of the new younger generation. You can see this in her movies. After documenting the punk scene in The Decline Of Western Civilization, she made Suburbia for me, in which she explored the world of alienated suburban teenagers, and later had a huge hit with Wayne's World." — Roger Corman

When family problems and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape with the orphans of a throwaway society. Calling themselves T.R. ("The Rejected"), these runaways hold on to one another like family, living in abandoned houses away from the society that despises them. Suburbia is THE punk rock movie, depicting with unbridled realism the lives, loves, and misfortunes of a discarded youth."

Bonus features:

  • Audio Track Commentary By Director Penelope Spheeris
  • Original Theatrical Trailer
  • Cast Biographies