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By Maitland McDonagh in the May-June 2020 Issue. Al Adamson made wild movies and lots of them; his work ethic was exemplary. They weren’t conventionally good, but they were chockablock with blood, beasts, babes, and bizarreness, tailored to a tough audience: grindhouse/drive-in habitués whose mantra was, “Entertain me—I dare ya.”
Blood and Flesh: The Reel Life and Ghastly Death of Al Adamson: Directed by David Gregory. With Al Adamson, Samuel M. Sherman, Chris Poggiali, Ken Adamson. Maverick indie filmmaker Al Adamson's real life was even crazier than one of the 30-plus sex 'n' schlock drive-in movies he made in the '60s and '70s.
From his early years as the son of a silent screen cowboy, through the production of some 30 lurid, low budget exploitation pictures, to his bizarre and grim demise, the story of filmmaker Al Adamson is told through first person recollection from colleagues, friends, family and archival material of Adamson himself.
Sep 27, 2020 · Al Adamson (1929-95) was a director who worked the low-budget exploitation end of the market the whole of his career. Adamson was responsible for genre films such as Blood of Dracula’s Castle (1969), Horror of the Blood Monsters/Vampire Men of the Lost Planet (1970), Brain of Blood (1971), Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971), Blood of Ghastly Horror (1972), Cinderella 2000 (1977), Death ...
Oct 12, 2023 · Entertainment Television documentary about the life, the films, and the murder of Drive-In independent exploitation director Al Adamson."After a six-week tri...
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May 27, 2020 · In 2019, Severin's David Gregory and friends embarked on a documentary about Adamson from the genesis of his filmmaking career through his untimely end; the result, Blood and Flesh: The Reel Life and Ghastly Death of Al Adamson, is a compelling and frequently jaw-dropping that ranks up there with the best feature-length studies of offbeat cinema auteurs like Herschell Gordon Lewis: The ...
Hugely overrated - avoid. Al Adamson is an acquired taste. Everything about this set is poor. Cost is outrageously high. Image quality is poor (even though it is said to be vastly improved from prior editions) Plots are obviously silly, but silly can be entertaining, which I did not find this to be.
