Al Adamson

Born: 1929-07-25

Al Adamson (July 25, 1929 – June 21, 1995) was a prolific director of B-grade horror films throughout the 1960s and 1970s. After assisting his father, Victor Adamson, in making the 1963 movie Halfway to Hell, Adamson decided to work in the motion picture industry himself. Three years later, he and Sam Sherman founded Independent-International Pictures, which became the vehicle for the many movies he directed. Among them are Psycho-A-Go-Go (later worked into Blood of Ghastly Horror), Satan's Sadists, Horror of the Blood Monsters, Dracula vs. Frankenstein, and Five Bloody Graves. After Adamson was reported missing for five weeks in 1995, after which law enforcement officials discovered his murdered corpse beneath the concrete and tile-covered whirlpool bath in his newly remodeled bathroom. The perpetrator was his live-in contractor Fred Fulford who, after being apprehended at the Coral Reef hotel on St Pete Beach, Florida, was charged with and convicted of murder, and was sentenced to twenty-five-years in prison. Description above from the Wikipedia article Al Adamson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Horror of the Blood Monsters

as Earthly Vampire (uncredited)
Released: 1970-02-01

Astronauts land on a planet with prehistoric creatures and a war between a human-like tribe and...

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Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson

as Himself (archive footage)
Released: 2019-08-23

Brought to life through archival material and the reflections of over 40 colleagues, friends and...

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Black Heat

as Uncredited
Released: 1976-06-01

Kicks Carter is a streetwise policeman whose beat is Las Vegas. A crime gang is running guns,...

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Psycho a Go-Go

as Travis (uncredited)
Released: 1965-11-19

Jewel thieves quickly dispose of the loot when the alarm is raised, then track down the family...

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The Fiend with the Electronic Brain

as Travis
Released: 1967-12-01

The Fiend with the Electronic Brain was a re-release of Al Adamson's Psycho A Go-Go featuring...

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Half Way to Hell

as Escobar
Released: 1960-03-04

Maria San Carlos, the only daughter of a wealthy landowner, is betrothed to Escobar, a General...

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