Al Adamson

Directing

Al Adamson

Born — Died

1929-07-25 — 1995-06-21

Place of birth

Hollywood, California, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

46 titles

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 m…

Known for

Horror of the Blood Monsters poster
3.2

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

Horror of the Blood Monsters

1970

Psycho a Go Go poster
4.5

Jewel thieves quickly dispose of the loot when the alarm is raised, then track down the family upon whose truck they threw them, meanly interrogating them in the hope of getting them back.

Psycho a Go Go

1965

Dracula vs. Frankenstein poster
4.5

Judith Fontaine is looking for her sister Joanie, who has disappeared into the hippie community of Venice, California. It turns out that Joanie has become fallen victim to Groton, an axe-wielding homicidal maniac under the employ of Dr. Durea, the last living descendant of the Frankenstein family and is now both running a house of horrors on the beach's boardwalk and performing experiments on Groton's victims in his basement laboratory.

Dracula vs. Frankenstein

1971

Cinderella 2000 poster
3.3

In the year 2047, sex is forbidden and Big Brother uses robots to keep an eye on everyone. One young girl tries to outwit the government so she can be with the man she loves.

Cinderella 2000

1977

Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson poster
6.8

Brought to life through archival material and the reflections of over 40 colleagues, friends and fans, BLOOD & FLESH is much more than the story of a moviemaking life most unusual. It beautifully captures the worlds of outsider filmmaker communities that existed in California in the ’70s, and the weird ways they intersected with Hollywood mainstream and union indies. On Adamson shoots, regular Orson Welles crew and cinematographers like Gary Graver, Vilmos Szigmond and Lazlo Kovaks worked alongside Bud Cardos — and at one point, Charles Manson! Director David Gregory (founder of Severin Films, director of LOST SOUL: THE DOOMED JOURNEY OF RICHARD STANLEY’S ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU) spent years making this film, speaking to everyone down to the cops who investigated Adamson’s murder, vividly encapsulating both a bold life and tragic demise, with alien conspiracies, go-go dancers and Colonel Sanders coming in along the way. If you’ve got even a passing interest in cinema, you want to see this

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

2019

Blood of Dracula's Castle poster
4.3

Count Dracula and his wife capture beautiful young women and chain them in their dungeon, to be used when they need to satisfy their thirst for blood.

Blood of Dracula's Castle

1969

Film credits

2010s · 1 titles

1960s · 3 titles

Behind the camera

Horror of the Blood Monsters poster
3.2

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

Horror of the Blood Monsters

1970

Horror of the Blood Monsters poster
3.2

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

Horror of the Blood Monsters

1970

Psycho a Go Go poster
4.5

Jewel thieves quickly dispose of the loot when the alarm is raised, then track down the family upon whose truck they threw them, meanly interrogating them in the hope of getting them back.

Psycho a Go Go

1965

Psycho a Go Go poster
4.5

Jewel thieves quickly dispose of the loot when the alarm is raised, then track down the family upon whose truck they threw them, meanly interrogating them in the hope of getting them back.

Psycho a Go Go

1965

Dracula vs. Frankenstein poster
4.5

Judith Fontaine is looking for her sister Joanie, who has disappeared into the hippie community of Venice, California. It turns out that Joanie has become fallen victim to Groton, an axe-wielding homicidal maniac under the employ of Dr. Durea, the last living descendant of the Frankenstein family and is now both running a house of horrors on the beach's boardwalk and performing experiments on Groton's victims in his basement laboratory.

Dracula vs. Frankenstein

1971

Dracula vs. Frankenstein poster
4.5

Judith Fontaine is looking for her sister Joanie, who has disappeared into the hippie community of Venice, California. It turns out that Joanie has become fallen victim to Groton, an axe-wielding homicidal maniac under the employ of Dr. Durea, the last living descendant of the Frankenstein family and is now both running a house of horrors on the beach's boardwalk and performing experiments on Groton's victims in his basement laboratory.

Dracula vs. Frankenstein

1971

Cinderella 2000 poster
3.3

In the year 2047, sex is forbidden and Big Brother uses robots to keep an eye on everyone. One young girl tries to outwit the government so she can be with the man she loves.

Cinderella 2000

1977

Cinderella 2000 poster
3.3

In the year 2047, sex is forbidden and Big Brother uses robots to keep an eye on everyone. One young girl tries to outwit the government so she can be with the man she loves.

Cinderella 2000

1977

Blood of Dracula's Castle poster
4.3

Count Dracula and his wife capture beautiful young women and chain them in their dungeon, to be used when they need to satisfy their thirst for blood.

Blood of Dracula's Castle

1969

Blood of Dracula's Castle poster
4.3

Count Dracula and his wife capture beautiful young women and chain them in their dungeon, to be used when they need to satisfy their thirst for blood.

Blood of Dracula's Castle

1969

Jessi's Girls poster
5.3

A young Mormon couple is attacked by a bunch of outlaws. They kill the man and the woman is raped several times and left for dead in the desert. With the last ounce of her strength she gets to the hut of an old hermit who nurses her back to health and teaches her how to shoot. The woman then frees three female criminals and seeks vengeance on the outlaws.

Jessi's Girls

1975

Jessi's Girls poster
5.3

A young Mormon couple is attacked by a bunch of outlaws. They kill the man and the woman is raped several times and left for dead in the desert. With the last ounce of her strength she gets to the hut of an old hermit who nurses her back to health and teaches her how to shoot. The woman then frees three female criminals and seeks vengeance on the outlaws.

Jessi's Girls

1975

Death Dimension poster
4.4

The Pig has a plan to eradicate some people with a freeze bomb that instantly freezes people to death. It is up to Detective Ash to stop him and protect the woman with the secret to the ice bomb embedded in a microdot under the skin of her forehead.

Death Dimension

1978

Half Way to Hell poster
4.4

Maria San Carlos, the only daughter of a wealthy landowner, is betrothed to Escobar, a General in the Mexican Revolution, but she does not love him. Escobar sends a mixed gang of Americans and Mexicans to capture her and bring her to him. Complications ensue when an American cowboy, who had been hitching a ride with Maria's entourage and has his gold stolen by the gang, pursues them across the desert.

Half Way to Hell

1960

Half Way to Hell poster
4.4

Maria San Carlos, the only daughter of a wealthy landowner, is betrothed to Escobar, a General in the Mexican Revolution, but she does not love him. Escobar sends a mixed gang of Americans and Mexicans to capture her and bring her to him. Complications ensue when an American cowboy, who had been hitching a ride with Maria's entourage and has his gold stolen by the gang, pursues them across the desert.

Half Way to Hell

1960

The Female Bunch poster
4.8

An all-female gang living on a ranch gets involved with a pair of bikers.

The Female Bunch

1971

Uncle Tom's Cabin poster
5.7

A sadistic plantation owner pushes his slaves to the point of rebellion.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

1976

Blood of Ghastly Horror poster
3.2

A mad scientist implants an electronic device into the brain of an injured soldier, which turns him into a psychotic killer.

Blood of Ghastly Horror

1967

Blood of Ghastly Horror poster
3.2

A mad scientist implants an electronic device into the brain of an injured soldier, which turns him into a psychotic killer.

Blood of Ghastly Horror

1967

The Naughty Stewardesses poster
4.1

A free-spirited Kansas City woman lands a job as a flight attendant and moves in with three worldly stewardesses in Los Angeles, but things get complicated when a wealthy elderly land developer saves the life of one of their passengers.

The Naughty Stewardesses

1973

Lost poster
5.1

A little girl gets lost in the wilds of Utah.

Lost

1983

Satan's Sadists poster
4.8

The Satans, a sadistic biker gang led by Anchor, go to a diner in the middle of the California desert where they terrorize owner Lew, waitress Tracy, and the patrons. One patron manages to escape, and must reach a town before the Satans catch up to and kill them.

Satan's Sadists

1969

Satan's Sadists poster
4.8

The Satans, a sadistic biker gang led by Anchor, go to a diner in the middle of the California desert where they terrorize owner Lew, waitress Tracy, and the patrons. One patron manages to escape, and must reach a town before the Satans catch up to and kill them.

Satan's Sadists

1969

Brain of Blood poster
2.9

Amir, the benevolent ruler of Kalid, is dying, but there is hope. Freshly deceased, he is flown to the United States where Dr. Trenton transplants his brain into the body of a simpleton in a classic "assistant got the wrong kind of body" plot line. Dr. Trenton has a few nefarious plot twists of his own in mind, and then there's the thing with the dwarf and the women chained in the basement. It's up to Amir's friend Bob and wife Tracey to try and salvage this tale.

Brain of Blood

1971

Brain of Blood poster
2.9

Amir, the benevolent ruler of Kalid, is dying, but there is hope. Freshly deceased, he is flown to the United States where Dr. Trenton transplants his brain into the body of a simpleton in a classic "assistant got the wrong kind of body" plot line. Dr. Trenton has a few nefarious plot twists of his own in mind, and then there's the thing with the dwarf and the women chained in the basement. It's up to Amir's friend Bob and wife Tracey to try and salvage this tale.

Brain of Blood

1971

Blazing Stewardesses poster
3.3

Those "naughty stewardesses" are at it again! But this time they’ve turned in their Mile High Club sky miles for a sexy, rousing, Old West-styled adventure on a dude ranch. Punchin’ cattle and breakin’ stallions are the last things on their minds as these lovely ladies earn their wings in a whole new way…blazing a trail straight to the bedroom.

Blazing Stewardesses

1975

Hell's Bloody Devils poster
4.2

Bikers, Nazis, Mafiosi, and the FBI all clash in this wild and wooly exploitation picture from director Al Adamson. Mark Adams (John Gabriel) is an FBI agent who has been assigned to infiltrate an organized crime ring that has obtained a set of printing plates that will allow them to produce nearly perfect counterfeit 20-dollar bills. The plates were made in Germany during World War II, and were discovered by a radical right-wing group hoping to restore the Nazi Party to power. The American gangsters are in cahoots with a group of wealthy American neo-Nazis sympathetic to the new German cause, led by fugitive war criminal Count von Delberg (Kent Taylor); the count has in turn recruited a vicious motorcycle gang, the Bloody Devils, to do his dirty work.

Hell's Bloody Devils

1970

Hell's Bloody Devils poster
4.2

Bikers, Nazis, Mafiosi, and the FBI all clash in this wild and wooly exploitation picture from director Al Adamson. Mark Adams (John Gabriel) is an FBI agent who has been assigned to infiltrate an organized crime ring that has obtained a set of printing plates that will allow them to produce nearly perfect counterfeit 20-dollar bills. The plates were made in Germany during World War II, and were discovered by a radical right-wing group hoping to restore the Nazi Party to power. The American gangsters are in cahoots with a group of wealthy American neo-Nazis sympathetic to the new German cause, led by fugitive war criminal Count von Delberg (Kent Taylor); the count has in turn recruited a vicious motorcycle gang, the Bloody Devils, to do his dirty work.

Hell's Bloody Devils

1970

The Dynamite Brothers poster
4.2

Young black man teams up with a Chinese kung-fu expert to fight a drug ring.

The Dynamite Brothers

1974

Nurse Sherri poster
4.5

A hospital nurse is possessed by an evil spirit, and proceeds to kill off the hospital's patients.

Nurse Sherri

1978

Five Bloody Graves poster
4.3

A lone gunman hunts the fearsome Apache Satago across the plains of the Wild West. When Satago's marauders ambush a stagecoach, the gunman rides to the rescue of the trapped passengers and helps them in their last stand against the deadly Indians.

Five Bloody Graves

1969

Five Bloody Graves poster
4.3

A lone gunman hunts the fearsome Apache Satago across the plains of the Wild West. When Satago's marauders ambush a stagecoach, the gunman rides to the rescue of the trapped passengers and helps them in their last stand against the deadly Indians.

Five Bloody Graves

1969

Cry Rape poster
7.0

A man who is arrested for rape swears it wasn't him but somebody who looks just like him, but the victim insists it was him.

Cry Rape

1973

Carnival Magic poster
2.9

A magician in a carnival--who actually can read minds and levitate people and objects--works with a superintelligent chimp named Alex, who can also talk. The magician and the chimp soon become the stars of the carnival, drawing in big crowds. However, the wild-animal trainer, who has been displaced by the team as the carnival's top act, decides to kidnap Alex and sell him to a medical laboratory for experimentation, thereby getting rid of his competition.

Carnival Magic

1983

Angels' Wild Women poster
4.8

These angels don't wear halos. After stomping the lights out on a couple of racist rapists, some tough biker babes take refuge in a rural commune run by a peace-loving guru who's actually a drug kingpin with a vicious gang -- and who specializes in human sacrifices.

Angels' Wild Women

1972

Angels' Wild Women poster
4.8

These angels don't wear halos. After stomping the lights out on a couple of racist rapists, some tough biker babes take refuge in a rural commune run by a peace-loving guru who's actually a drug kingpin with a vicious gang -- and who specializes in human sacrifices.

Angels' Wild Women

1972

Hammer poster
5.4

Hotheaded laborer B.J. Hammer can't go long without ending up in a fight, and, after he comes out on top in a particularly impressive workplace scuffle, word of his brawling skills makes its way to Davis, a top boxing manager. Hammer is hired by Davis and begins a lucrative career in the ring, only to find out that his new employer wants him to throw a fight and take part in other illicit activities. Hammer reacts to this news violently, and the feud is on.

Hammer

1972

Girls for Rent poster
4.8

A team of girls go on a killing spree across the country.

Girls for Rent

1974

Sunset Cove poster
3.6

At the end of the school year, a group of students head out to Sunset Cove and do everything they can to save their favourite beach.

Sunset Cove

1978

Black Samurai poster
5.6

When the daughter of the royal family is held hostage, an agent for "D.R.A.G.O.N." will stop at nothing to destroy the evil organisation which abducted her.

Black Samurai

1976