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He does girls-in-bamboo-cages movies.
What is he selling?
So I designed a kind of Amazon warrior spaceship basically a spaceship with tits.
It was a cool design.
Two days later, Corman returned to inspect the designs dotted around the shop.
Turning to Camerons, he said, Whats this?
This is a spaceship with tits, Cameron replied.
Yes, thats exactly what it is.
LikeBattle Beyond the Stars,Galaxy of Terrorwas made in an old converted wood yard in Venice, California.
Given the budgetary limitations, what the crew managed to create was quite remarkable.
It was at this point that Cameron first had the idea of stepping behind the camera himself.
Surely, he couldnt do a worse job than they, he thought.
I didnt think I had that much to offer as a filmmaker.
Design, yes, absolutely.
I knew that part of it.
But Im watching these guys just fail and Im thinking, I can do that.'
Gradually, however, it seems that Camerons roll in shootingGalaxy of Terrorbecame even more central.
That was my first experience directing.
Whenever Cameron called Action, the maggots would move around.
Whenever he called Cut, theyd stop.
Four years later, Cameron hired Skotak to work on the visual effects inAliens.
Indeed, Camerons work at Cormans studio was pretty much instrumental in his early career.
Elsewhere inGalaxy of Terrors credits, youll find Alec Gillis, who worked on the movies prosthetics.
Then there were those producers who were so impressed by Camerons maggot-wrangling skills.
Cameron has always maintained he was fired because Assonitis wanted to direct the film himself.
Without Corman, Camerons path through filmmaking would have been very different.
Aside fromAliens, there are the parallels betweenGalaxy of Terrorand Ridley ScottsAlienprequel,Prometheus.
The characters inPrometheusare, like the ones inGalaxy of Terror,roundly neurotic, paranoid, and clumsy.
