Wild Wednesdays inside Corman’s world

Imagine being trapped in a drive-in theater for three days.
The popcorn and Raisinets would be be fine, the movies would be mercifully brief and this would be kind of fun in a monster-mash way.
That’s roughly what Turner Classic Movies plans: On three Wednesdays, it has films by Roger Corman, the micro-budgeter who died last month, at 98.
The first two nights (July 3 and 10), go from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m., In a combined 20 hours, they show 13 films (yes, mercifully short), all directed by Corman, concluding with the surprisngly gppd “Wild Angels” (shown here). Then the final night (July 17) switches to Corman productions directed by his underling – including Martin Scorcese, Francis Coppola, Peter Bogdanovich, Jonathan Demme and Joe Dante.
Those men would go on to bigger movies and win seven Oscars. Corman stayed in his lane and won an honorary one.
On the first two Wednesday, there are some memorable moments. The first one includes Jack Nicholson as a masochistic dental patient in the original “Little Shop of Horrors” (12:15 a.m.); the second has Mike Curb’s distinctive soundtrack in “Wild Angels” (4:15 a.m.).
And on the third Wednesday, you can see young geniuses in their drive-in mode. Here’s the schedule, all times ET:
–JULY 3: “X: The Man With X-Ray Eyes” (1963), 8 p.m.; “A Bucket of Blood” (1959), 9:30; “The Wasp Woman” (1959), 10:45; “The Little Shop of Horrors” (1960), 12:15 a.m.; “Creature From the Haunted Sea” (1961), 1:45 a.m.; “Atlas” (1960), 3 a.m.; “Tower of London” (1963), 4:30 a.m.
— JULY 10: “House of Usher” (1960), 8 p.m.; “The Pit and the Pendulum” (1961), 9:30; “The Raven” (1963), 11; “The Masque of the Red Death” (1964), 12:45 a.m.; “Bloody Mama” (1970), 2:30; “The Wild Angels” (1966), 4:15 a.m.
— JULY 17: :”Boxcar Bertha” (1972, Scorsese), 8 p.m.; “Targets” (1969, Bogdanovich), 9:45; “Dementia 13″ (1963, Coppola), 11:30; “Caged Heat” (1974, Demme), 1 a.m.; “Piranha” (1978, Dante), 2:30 a.m.