Roger Corman, the pioneering film director, independent producer, and king of B Movies, has died at 98. 

My actress-aunt by marriage, Susan Cabot, introduced me to Roger Corman and the world of his iconic B movies. Some of their well-known B movies include The Wasp Woman (1959), recently revived and staged as an off-broadway show with Sean Young playing Susan Cabot in Ode to the Wasp Woman.

As an actress, Cabot possessed an emotional depth based on personal experience and trauma, infusing Corman’s edgy, otherworldly, disturbed, and disturbing characters with life. 

In February 2014, I visited Roger Corman at his office in Santa Monica to interview him about the films he made with my aunt. 

I engaged with Corman to delve into the psychology of his stories and the characters my aunt played, with a look in parallel at the more prominent literary patterns and influences, shaping the psychology of dreams and nightmares, ghosts and the supernatural, all elements of which we can see in his work and filmic adaptations.

To what extent did their fiction influence her reality? 

Our interview appears in print for the first time on my Substack and is part of our recorded, unedited conversation here.

Archive Photos, via Getty Images

New tracks tagged #stanford,