{"id":444,"date":"2007-10-03T10:05:35","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T17:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/?p=444"},"modified":"2007-10-03T13:00:51","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T20:00:51","slug":"rip-charles-b-griffith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/?p=444","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Charles B. Griffith"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Real Gone Cat<\/em><\/p>\n

We’ve lost another rarity, an original voice in the Galaxy of Film. Charles B. Griffith, the creative motor behind some of Roger Corman’s best, most original films.
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Bucket Of Blood<\/em>, Not Of This Earth<\/em>, Little Shop Of Horrors<\/em>, and a weird one I liked as a kid The Undead<\/em>, it had a ton of atmosphere maybe because a lot of it was filmed in an old ice house, also a lot of the dialog is in verse. <\/p>\n

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A Scene from The Undead, shot in an Ice House<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bucket Of Blood<\/em> is a very funny film that also documents the Venice Beach beatnik scene and the whole bongo playing coffeehouse artiste genre. Not Of This Earth<\/em> is a super creepy evil alien takeover story with some excellent voice over and a cast of crazy characters. Check these out if you get a chance. <\/p>\n

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Charles B. also wrote some seminal biker flick’s for Corman and American International. Check out John Cassavetes and Mimsy Farmer in Devil’s Angels<\/em> and Peter Fonda with Nancy Sinatra in The Wild Angels<\/em>.
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Cassavettes in a Biker Flick? How Cool Is That!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Looks like a Jack Davis Drawing to me<\/em><\/p>\n

Griffith would crank these scripts out in a week or two days or however much time Roger gave him maybe that’s why they’re so full of “spontaneous poetry”. Yeah daddio he was the Jack Kerouac of B movies or as Quentin Tarantino dubbed him “The Poet Laureate Of The Drive-In<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

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Groovy Graphics<\/em>
\nSo Fare Thee Well Charles B. Griffith. They’re all laughing and snapping their fingers at The Big Drive-In in The Sky.<\/p>\n

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Trailer For A Bucket Of Blood<\/em><\/p>\n

Here’s a cool interview with him:http:\/\/www.sensesofcinema.com\/contents\/05\/35\/charles_b_griffith.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Real Gone Cat We’ve lost another rarity, an original voice in the Galaxy of Film. Charles B. Griffith, the creative motor behind some of Roger Corman’s best, most original films. Bucket Of Blood, Not Of This Earth, Little Shop Of Horrors, and a weird one I liked as a kid The Undead, it had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}