- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- July 25, 1929
- Place of Birth
- Hollywood, California, USA
- Died
- June 21, 1995
Al Adamson
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 R…
Filmography
movieBlood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson
2019 · Himself (archive footage)
movieLost
1983 · Director
movieCarnival Magic
1983 · Director
movieBedroom Stewardesses
1978 · Writer, Director
movieNurse Sherri
1978 · Idea, Director
movieDeath Dimension
1978 · Director
movieSunset Cove
1978 · Director
movieDoctor Dracula
1978 · Director
movieCinderella 2000
1977 · Director, Producer
movieBlack Samurai
1976 · Director
movieBlack Heat
1976 · Uncredited, Director, Producer
movieUncle Tom's Cabin
1976 · Director
movieBlazing Stewardesses
1975 · Director
movieJessi's Girls
1975 · Director, Producer
movieGirls for Rent
1974 · Director
movieMean Mother
1974 · Director
movieThe Dynamite Brothers
1974 · Director
movieCry Rape
1973 · Producer
movieThe Naughty Stewardesses
1973 · Director
movieLash of Lust
1972 · Director
movieHammer
1972 · Producer
movieAngels' Wild Women
1972 · Writer, Director
movieDoomsday Voyage
1972 · Producer
movieDracula vs. Frankenstein
1971 · Director, Producer, Stunt Double
movieThe Female Bunch
1971 · Director
movieBrain of Blood
1971 · Producer, Director
movieHell's Bloody Devils
1970 · Director, Producer
movieHorror of the Blood Monsters
1970 · Earthly Vampire (uncredited), Producer, Director
movieFive Bloody Graves
1969 · Producer, Director
movieBlood of Dracula's Castle
1969 · Director, Producer
movieSatan's Sadists
1969 · Director, Producer
movieBlood of Ghastly Horror
1967 · Story, Director, Producer
movieThe Fiend with the Electronic Brain
1967 · Travis, Director, Original Story, Producer
moviePsycho a Go Go
1965 · Travis (uncredited), Producer, Director, Original Story
movieHalf Way to Hell
1960 · Slade, Screenstory, Producer, Director