It was not a question for writer-director Steven Kostanski about what movie he wanted to make next. It was a calling, or perhaps a prophecy written in the stars, when the Canadian filmmaker—and genre necromancer of old school creature features like Psycho Goreman and The Void —was invited to peruse a catalog of old Roger Corman titles that were about to have their rights optioned off.

Corman is of course the legendary director and producer who defined independent genre filmmaking for multiple generations in the 20th century. He also was visionary enough to see the appeal in producing, importing, and dubbing movies of a similar vintage (but perhaps less beholden to American mores toward standards and taste). In other words, he gave the world movies like Deathstalker , the 1983 Ar

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