Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson
Delightful...we could live in this movie's world forever.
Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson
‘Horror Film Director Found Slain, Buried Under Floor,’ screamed the August 1995 headline in the Los Angeles Times. But the whole truth behind Al Adamson’s strange life and gruesome death reveals perhaps the most bizarre career in Hollywood history.
From his early years as the son of a silent screen cowboy, through the production of some 30 lurid low budget pictures including SATAN'S SADISTS, DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN and THE NAUGHTY STEWARDESSES, to his grisly demise, the Al Adamson story remains wild beyond belief. Told through over 40 first-person recollections from friends, family, colleagues and historians, plus rare clips and archival interviews with Adamson himself, BLOOD & FLESH: THE REEL LIFE & GHASTLY DEATH OF AL ADAMSON is the delightful, dirty and deadly documentary of bikers, go-go dancers, aging Hollywood actors, porn stars, freak-out girls, Charles Manson, Colonel Sanders, alien conspiracies, bad contractors and “scenes so SICK the Movies could never show them before!”
From his early years as the son of a silent screen cowboy, through the production of some 30 lurid low budget pictures including SATAN'S SADISTS, DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN and THE NAUGHTY STEWARDESSES, to his grisly demise, the Al Adamson story remains wild beyond belief. Told through over 40 first-person recollections from friends, family, colleagues and historians, plus rare clips and archival interviews with Adamson himself, BLOOD & FLESH: THE REEL LIFE & GHASTLY DEATH OF AL ADAMSON is the delightful, dirty and deadly documentary of bikers, go-go dancers, aging Hollywood actors, porn stars, freak-out girls, Charles Manson, Colonel Sanders, alien conspiracies, bad contractors and “scenes so SICK the Movies could never show them before!”
Genre
Documentary,
Films & Filmmakers,
Pop Culture,
Crime,
Cult,
Hollywood History
Runtime
102
Language
English
Director
David Gregory
FEATURED REVIEW
Jennie Kermode, Eye for Film
With titles like 'Psycho a Go-Go,' 'Satan’s Sadists' and 'Dracula vs. Frankenstein' to his name, director and producer Al Adamson was a man who knew how to get the attention of a certain kind of horror fan even if his films never really lived up to the promise of his inspired advertising. David ...
Played at
Monica Film Center 11.01.19 - 11.07.19
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