RIP ROGER CORMAN

Where does one even begin to commemorate the vastness of your career as director, producer and writer, let alone all the performers and filmmakers you (and your late brother, Gene) helped catapult to stardom? 

Let me just pluck as many entries as I can: Frankenstein Unbound; Little Shop of Horrors; Bucket of Blood; Not of This Earth; It Conquered the World; The Wasp Woman; Attack of the Crab Monsters; Attack of the Giant Leeches; Creature from the Haunted Sea; Beast from the Haunted Cave; Day the World Ended; Humanoids from the Deep; The Undead; Last Woman on Earth; Teenage Caveman; T-Bird Gang; High School Big Shot; The Fast and the Furious; The Student Teachers; Summer School Teachers; Rock 'n' Roll High School; The Young Nurses; Candy Stripe Nurses; Night Call Nurses; The Secret Invasion; The Intruder; The Gunslinger; Dementia 13; The Trip; The Wild Angels; Angels Die Hard; Angels Hard as They Come; Boxcar Bertha; Big Bad Mama; Crazy Mama; Black Mama, White Mama; Women in Cages; The Hot Box; Stripped to Kill; The Arena; Sorceress; Deathstalker; Deathstalker II; Death Race 2000; Death Race 2050; Deathsport; Gas-s-s-s; Thunder and Lightning; The Fantastic Four; Ski Troop Attack; Cannonball; Grand Theft Auto; Eat My Dust!; Smokey Bites the Dust; The Dunwich Horror; The Haunted Palace; Tower of London; The Raven; (The Fall of) the House of Usher; The Pit and the Pendulum; The Masque of the Red Death; The Tomb of Ligeia; Tales of Terror; The Terror; Premature Burial; X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes; Tidal Wave; Avalanche; I Escaped from Devil's Island; Machine Gun Kelly; Jackson County Jail; Munchie; Munchies; Alien Avengers; Vampirella; Black Scorpion; Black Scorpion II; Black Scorpion: The Series; Carnosaur; Carnosaur 2; Carnosaur 3: Primal Species; Piranha; Piranha II: The Spawning (Flying Killers); Battle Beyond the Stars; Battle Beyond the Sun; War of the Satellites; Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women; Galaxy of Terror; and--holy moly!!!--that's just one huge, off-the-cuff chunk.   

Your inimitable style, your overflowing love for cinema, thrives in all that you touched, Mr. Corman. In other words, you meant something, sir, and thanks to you, so do many others.