Bloody Mama

I am a huge admirer of Roger Corman, whom I consider to be one of the most influential directors alive. Corman's ingenious Edgar Alan Poe cycle (starring the great Vincent Price) alone makes him a brilliant director and Horror genius,... Full review

Shelly Winters plays a wild Ma Barker in this decent Roger Corman directed flick about the Barker gang of the great depression era. Everyone playing Ma Barkers sons, who include Robert Deniro, gives a good performance. Bruce Dern also has... Full review

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When I picked up a copy of this cult B-movie, I was expecting a good actioner, but not to actually be really well-acted and dramatic. Some have dismissed this movie as being cheap, old and with a bad script-IGNORE THEM.There... Full review

Some movies romanticize the life of crime, or make the criminals into sympathetic characters, but Roger Corman's "Bloody Mama" goes in the opposite direction with its depiction of the Barker crime family of the 30's and their ruthless murders, sadism,... Full review

This Roger Corman "exploitation" flick was great drive-in material, basically inaccurate much of the time, but a wonderful cast and plenty of 30's violence. Robert Deniro is very effective as the junkie son who keeps his "kit" in a Baby Ruth... Full review

This was definitely an exploitation film through and through! Shelly Winters and a supporting cast of a-list actors, and an unknown Bobby De Niro, taking girls, and men, killing, trashing, raping, kidnapping, and torture! Definitely worth the time, if you... Full review

Looking only ounces lighter than after her alleged 40 pound weight gain a year or so later for "The Poseidon Adventure", Winters portrays the title character, an outlaw mom based far more on legend than fact. The real "Ma" Barker... Full review

This is an amazing film for 1970, and a good film to watch by itself today. A true gangster story, with no romantics at all. Evil people do evil things, they just do them because they are stupid and degenerated.... Full review

Good Roger Corman gangster's movie. Corman did many, and chips, films like this one because he was an authentic specialist in B movies. Hollywood never understood nor like him but there are very few American film makers so clever like... Full review

"Bad Taste," one of this director's early films, featured aliens hunting humans for an intergalactic fast-food chain. 2.Which of the following is NOT an actual movie title? 3. ... Full Article

The Troma Team is proud to present "The Butchers", a chilling tale of small town corruption and cannibalism, starring Talia Shire (Rocky, The Godfather), Vic Tayback (Bullitt, Mel from "Alice") and Robert Walden (Bloody Mama, "Lou Grant"). ... Full Article

By LOUIS B. HOBSON movie Bloody Mama. He began acting in off-Broadway plays and made three movies, The Wedding Party, Greetings and Hi Mom! for Brian De Palma. ... Full Article

Roger Corman 's production, following up on his own Bloody Mama , is something of a delight. Although covering the familiar ground of bank robbing during the Depression, the film persistently and boisterously treads its own path. ... Full Article