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Corman later settled into a comfortable home at Syfy, producing a plethora of Saturday night creature features for the cable channel. “The first ones all started with me,” explained Corman, who won an honorary Academy Award in 2010 for his “rich engendering of films and filmmakers.”
“They began with Dinocroc, then Supergator and then Dinoshark. Syfy called me one time and said, ‘Roger, you’ve come up with every title, we’ve got one for you.’ And I said, ‘What is it?’ And they said, ‘Sharktopus, and do you want to make it?’ And I said, ‘No!’ And they said, ‘What do you mean you don’t want to make it?!’ And I said, ‘Well, I’ve got a theory, which is that you can go up to a certain limit of insanity with these titles and the audience is with you, but if you go over what I might call the acceptable level of insanity, then they turn on you.’ Sharktopus maybe went over the acceptable level of insanity, but one thing led to another, and I made the picture. It had the biggest rating of the year for Syfy.”
For more Corman love, read our celebration of The Little Shop of Horrors, the film that perhaps best encapsulates the genre giant’s maverick approach, cultural impact, and sense of humor.
