confirmed the news to the Hollywood Reporter, saying Hellman had died in hospital after a fall at his home. Hellman was born Monte Himmelman in 1929, and after studying theatre at Stanford University set up a theatre company in Los Angeles.
Like many directors of his generation, Hellman gained early experience working for Roger Corman’s low-budget exploitation-movie factory.
Corman hired him to make Beast from Haunted Cave, shot simultaneously with the same cast and crew as another Corman film, Ski Troop Attack. (“It wasn’t fun to make at all,” he said. ) Along with contemporaries such as Francis Ford Coppola and Jack Nicholson, Hellman became a regular Corman collaborator, at first helping to rework and reshoot material.
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