Charles B. Griffith

A screenwriter and director, Griffith mostly worked for B-movie producer Roger Corman. Griffith wrote the scripts for Corman films such as Attack of the Crab Monsters, Not of This Earth, A Bucket of Blood, Teenage Doll, Creature from the Haunted Sea and Rock All Night. But he's best known for 1960's The Little Shop of Horrors, where Griffith also provided the voice for the carnivorous plant, "Audrey Jr.", who kept urging Seymour to "Feed me!" The film was later adapted into a stage musical, which was then itself adapted back to a successful film. "Griffith's scripts were very imaginative and often quirky and kind of subversive," says science fiction film commentator Tom Weaver. "And when you look at any list of Roger Corman's early pictures, those were the ones that put Corman on the map." Griffith died at his home on September 28 at 77. From This is True for 30 September 2007 Suggestions for further reading: How I Made A Hundred Movies In Hollywood And Never Lost A Dime by Roger Corman Amazon Price: $14.53 Customer Review: Given the title, I was expecting more of a movie making manual type of book like "Make Your Own Damn Movie" by Lloyd Kaufman. It isn't. It's an autobiography, which was still interesting, just not what I was expecting.   Roger Corman: Blood-Sucking Vampires, Flesh-Eating Cockroaches, and Driller K... by Beverly Gray Amazon Price: Customer Review: I have to say, I LOVE, "Roger Corman: Blood-Sucking Vampires, Flesh-Eating Cockroaches, and Driller Killers" the book is always near by, within reach, just in case I need to pick up my spirits. It came as a shock when I first discovered...   Roger Corman (Pocket Essential series) by Mark Whitehead Amazon Price: $6.99   Will Work For Peace: New Political Poems by Sherman Alexie, Marge Piercy, Carolyn Kizer, Martin Espada, Diane di Prima, W. D. Snodgrass, Bob Holman, Peter Viereck, Leslea Newman, Lyn Lifshin, Cid Corman, David Ray, Susan Griffin, Dean Blehert, Donald Hall, Bill Zavatsky, Ellen Bass, Colette Inez, Maxine Chernoff, Marilyn Chin, Nicole Blackman, Maude Meehan, Elaine Equi, Daniela Gioseffi, Taylor Mali, Regie Cabico, Janet Hamill, Edwin Torres, Sarah Jones, Roger Bonair-Agard, Alix Olson, Amy Ouzoonian, Cristin Aptowicz, Charles Fishman, Francis Driscoll, Lamont Steptoe, Thaddeaus Rutkowski, Michael Cadnum, Charles Potts, Guy LeCharles Gonzalez Amazon Price: Customer Review: I go to a somewhat conservative boarding school and lent this book to one of my writing teachers, who previously had said that there is no way that a political poem can be heartfelt. This book proves that notion wrong. Normally when people think abo...   Roger Corman: Metaphysics on a Shoestring by Alain Silver, James Ursini Amazon Price: $18.96 Customer Review: Alain Silver and James Ursini have established themselves as key experts in the areas of film noir and horror film study. It is warmly appreciated that the prolific authors have turned their attention to the output of Roger Corman, the King of the B...   Newsfeed display by CaRP

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