The 25 Hottest Women In Roger Corman Movies

Movie: Day The World Ended (1956)

Lori Nelson's glamorous allure was put to good use in Corman's campy post-apocalyptic romp (and curiously "the"-missing) Day The World Ended. The buxom blond is a part of limited number of survivors of an atomic war that devastates the earth, forcing her to tackle mutants with no ammo; well, aside from her able body. Unfortunately for her, monsters are not as susceptible to her sex appeal as humans, and she's taken captive by the creature. But fortunately for us, we're into that whole damsel-in-distress thing.

Movie: The Arena (2001)

Former Playboy model Karen McDougal took the idea of bloodlust to a whole new level in The Arena, a Corman-produced remake of his own 1974 female gladiator flick. The sexpot took on the role of Jessemina, a slinky slave who is forced into combat with two other scantily clad captives for the battle of a lifetime. And just when you thought jello-wrestling was as good as girl-on-girl could get!

Movie: A Time For Killing (1967)

In A Time For Killing, full-bodied Swedish-Amercian seductress Inger Stevens plays Emily Biddle, a missionary who gets kidnapped and subsequently taken advantage of by her captives. Her mistreatment is avenged, however, by a young Harrison Ford in his first ever on-screen role. Not bad a way to start a career.

Movie: Piranhaconda (2011)

Piranthaconda may seem like a mashup of two sub-par creature features, but... Actually, yes, it is exactly that. The film's tag line, "Part Snake! Part Fish! All Killer!", gives you an idea of how awesomely bad this made-for-TV monster flick is, but what it doesn't allude to is just how enticing it is to watch limber-legged supermodel Rachel Hunter attempt to capture the titular beast while only wearing a swimsuit. Oh, Mr. Corman—your ample imagination never fails us.

Movie: Death Race 2000 (1975)

Death Race 2000 has everything you could ever want in a movie: a purring engine, plenty of needless violence, and a purdy blonde. Corman's cult classic features a bloody, cross-country race where points are earned for taking out pedestrians on the road. Twisted? Definitely. Pleasurable? Absolutely, especially with Simone Griffeth playing the sexy saboteur attempting to put an end to the bloody game. We don't know why, but something about this beautiful blonde makes the idea of "ambush" seem like a kinky game we'd love to play.

Movies: Premature Burial (1962), The Raven (1963), The Masque Of The Red Death (1964)

Hazel Court is a vintage scream queen who charmed cult-horror fans when she took on three of Corman's critically admired Edgar Allen Poe adaptions. She went from playing the wife of a man obsessed with being buried alive (Premature Burial), to a horror-comedy alongside Jack Nicholson (The Raven), and even played Prince's Prospero's devilishly sexy bride in The Masque Of Red Death. In all, she definitely captured our tell-tale hearts.

Movies: Candy Stripe Nurses (1974), Hollywood Boulevard (1976)

A pale-haired beauty with a penchant for exploitative B-movies, Candice Rialson was most well known for her role as a woman with a vocal vagina (as in, it actually spoke and sung) in Chatterbox. But before Rialson secured that strange claim to fame, she was garnering laughs and leers as a sex clinic nurse in the shamelessly smutty Candy Stripe Nurses, as well as as a fame-starved starlet in Corman's cult-classic Hollywood Boulevard.

Movies: I Mobster (1958), Attack Of The Giant Leeches (1959)

Corman first recognized Yvette Vickers' full-bodied beauty, but not her talent, and he only gave her a small, unnamed role in his crime flick I Mobster, simply dubbing her "The Blonde." But lucky for us, this firecracker got more screen-time the following year in his creepy-crawly sci-fi flick Attack Of The Giant Leeches, in which she plays an outspoken young girl who gets kidnapped by a giant flesh-hungry insect so it can feed on her blood. There's probably an easy pun about sucking to be made here, but we're going to take the high road here.

Movies: Carnival Rock (1957), Rock All Night (1957), Teenage Doll (1957), The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent (1957), Stakeout on Dope Street (1958)

Abby Dalton, who first made her mainstream mark as a game show personality in the '60s, owes her break to a string of memorable roles in a gang of Corman films. The perky blonde racked up six credits with the prolific director-producer in under two years, some uncredited. But whether playing a deliquent teen or a barely-clothed Nordic woman leading her peers on a desire-led search for men, Dalton's assets never went unrecognized.

Movies: Gunslinger (1956), The Undead (1957)

If this fiesty brunette looks fierce, that's because she is. Allison Hayes eventually achieved infamy as the star of the cult classic Attack Of The 50-Foot Woman (1958), but prior to that super-sized role it was Hayes' performances as the amoral Erica Page in the 1956 western Gunslinger and a bloodthirsty witch in the time-travel flick The Undead that first caught America's roving eye.

Movies: Gunslinger (1956), It Conquered the World (1956), Swamp Women (1956), Naked Paradise (1957), Not Of This Earth (1957)

Cult queen Beverly Garland won over sci-fi fans' hearts with her work in over 20 films, many of which were B-movies. Garland played everything from a lady sheriff in Gunslinger to a trashy convict in one of Corman's first directing projects, Swamp Women, before going on to a prolific career on the small screen. Her success was most likely due to her gorgeous face and curvy body that even those scaly mitts in the picture above couldn't resist.

Movie: Tender Loving Care (1973)

Before making a name for herself as Cleopatra in the hilarious non-Corman comedy Kentucky Fried Movie, the voluptuous actress took on the role of a nurse in Corman's Tender Loving Care, a candy-striper who gives extra-special care to her patients. We'd inflict an injury on ourselves just to get a taste of that TLC.

Movie: House Of Usher (1960)

This perky, wide-eyed beauty made a name for herself in the Edgar Allen Poe Corman's adaptation of the famous Edgar Allan Poe short story "The Fall Of The House of Usher," the first of his eight Poe films. Fahey co-stars as a cataleptic woman who's mistaken for dead and gets buried alive. Much to the chagrin of the audience, who'd prefer to maximize her on-screen slinking.

Movie: Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)

This stacked blonde played an asteroid-dodging warrior Saint-Exmin in Corman's classic space flick. Wearing a costume that would put more modest intergalactic women to shame, Sybil makes it easy to overlook the recycled space scenes and the concepts Corman shamelessly steals from Star Wars and the samurai classic The Magnificent Seven in this so-trite-and-cheesy-it's-actually-awesome film.

Movie: Rock 'N' Roll High School (1979)

Pretty P.J. Soles is best known for her iconic roles in horror classics like Carrie and Halloween, but she first got our hearts racing in Corman's musical comedy as a punk rock obsessed teen, Riff. Soles' innocent yet seductive stare even manages to entice The Ramones, who join her, instruments and all, in a playful shower scene.

Movies: The Saga Of The Viking Women And Their Voyage To The Waters Of The Great Sea Serpent (1957), Sorority Girl (1957), Carnival Rock (1957), The Wasp Woman (1959), War Of The Satellites (1958), Machine Gun Kelly (1958)

Appearing in six Corman movies in just three years' time, we can only assume Corman had just as much of a crush on this girl-next-door as we do. Cabot first wooed us as a surpsingly sexy carnie clown, but it was her ability to convincingly play an experimental wasp enzymes user who turns into an oversized man-eating bee that really won us over. Hell, we'd take our chances at being stung by Sue for a taste of her sweet, sweet honey.

Movie: The Unholy Rollers (1972), Deathsport (1978)

Claudia Jennings' bad girl glare isn't an act. This former Playmate lived a fast-paced lifestyle riddled with drugs and drama, sporadically starring in exploitation films along the way. Before her tragic car accident at the age of 29, she starred in a film that seemed to foreshadow her demise, Deathsport, which was about motorcycle death battles, and in a more lighthearted role as girl with roller derby dreams in The Unholy Rollers.

Movies: Tales Of Terror (1962), The Haunted Palace (1963)

Creepy Corman flicks are made less frightening thanks to the appearance of this sapphire-eyed sexpot. Debra acts as the object of desire of her husband's acquaintance in the Edgar Allan Poe adaption Tales Of Terror, and as a woman caught in the grips of a cult-possessed village inThe Haunted Palace.

Movie: Deathstalker (1983)

Before making it into Hugh Hefner's wrinkled palms or crafting country records, doe-eyed Barbi Benton appeared in Cormon's fantasy film Deathstalker. The film employs every use of cliché evil imaginable—witches, magicians, and even dwarves—but is made more than bearable thanks to the inclusion of Barbi, who plays the genetically gifted Princess Codille.

Movie: The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967)

Corman's historically-based gangster film about Al Capone's slaughtering of a rival gang was notably graced by Jean Hale's sexy presence. Jean may play a small supporting role, as does Jack Nicholson here, but her timeless allure makes her one of Corman's greatest finds.

Movies: Pit And The Pendulum (1961), Caged Heat (1974), I Never Promised You A Rose Garden (1977),

This brunette maven was dubbed "Britain's first lady of horror" thanks to her gift for the gruesome. The dark haired temptress once admitted that she didn't understand why cult horror fans had such a hard-on for her, but we think we can figure it out: dark, deep-set eyes, a body intended for pure evil, and a sexy British accent. Brits weren't Corman's thing, though, and he had her dialogue dubbed-out in the Pit And The Pendulum. Luckily for us, Corman let her sultry voice be heard 13 years later in Caged Heat.

Movie: The Big Bird Cage (1972)

The Big Bird Cage shamelessly deploys a prisoner motif to chain and tie up knockout Anitra Ford. The slender actress plays a deliciously disheveled woman who gets thrown in a women's concentration camp, where we're forced to concentrate on her lack of clothing and/or undergarments. It's a cruel world, and we're just voyeueristic creeps in it.

Movie: Death Race (2008)

In this remake of Corman's iconic 1975 racing film, Cuban American Natalie is a shining beacon of beauty among an endless parade of death and destruction. Not that we have qualms with violence, but in this fast-paced, hit-and-run-filled flick, it's nice to have a reason to just slow down and stare, or in Martinez's case, shamelessly gawk.

Movie: Big Bad Mama (1974)

Words can't encapsulate the essence of this limber-limbed icon's appeal. However, a movie title can: Big Bad Mama. Corman cast this flaxen haired hottie as the sharp-tongued, ferociously tough Wilma McClatchie, who takes on a life of crime to provide for her family in this timeless exploitation film. Also making an appearance in this movie are Angie's big bad boobs, not that we're saying that's a reason to watch. Just kidding. Of course it is.

Movies: The Big Doll House (1971), Women In Cages (1971), The Big Bird Cage (1972), The Twilight People (1973), The Arena (1974)

Pam Grier is to blaxploitation films what Clint Eastwood is to westerns—it's just hard to imagine the genre without her. Not only is she show-stoppingly seductive, she was also unabashedly fierce and tough, a unique quality Corman was the first to recognize, casting her in a slew of his early titles, and eventually connecting her with director Jack Hill, who would place her in her most well-known role, as Foxy Brown.

But it was Grier's early appearances as a sultry gladiator in The Arena, a subdued revolutionary in Women In Cages, and her first role as imprisoned, but far from defenseless, tough girl in The Big Doll House, that launched not only our obsession with her soft curves, but also the exploitation genre on the whole.