John "Bud" Cardos

Directing

John "Bud" Cardos

Born 1929-12-20 · St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Acting credits

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

Rebel Rousers poster
4.2

In a small, US costal town with many Spanish speakers, a motorcycle gang arrives on holiday. Also in town to try to reconnect with his pregnant girlfriend, Karen, is businessman Paul Collier. Paul and a leader of the cyclists, J.J., knew each other years before, so when the gang comes upon the couple and, led by the menacing Bunny, beats up Paul and begins a sexual assault of Karen, J.J. tries to intervene: he suggests they hold cycle-riding contests, with the winner claiming Karen (he promises, sotto voce, to set her free if he wins). After the contests commence, Paul crawls away to look for help. He meets with a shrug from a cowardly sheriff's deputy; where can he turn?

Rebel Rousers

1970

Hells Angels on Wheels poster
5.2

At first gas station attendant Poet is happy when the rockers gang “Hell’s Angels” finally accepts him. But he’s shocked when he learns how brutal they are – not even murder is a taboo to them. He gets himself in trouble when the leader’s girlfriend falls in love with him – and he welcomes her approaches.

Hells Angels on Wheels

1967

Nightmare in Wax poster
4.0

The disfigured curator of a wax museum murders his enemies and then uses their bodies as exhibits in his museum.

Nightmare in Wax

1969

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

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

The Las Vegas Strangler poster
5.0

Previously lost proto-slasher that chronicles the life of murderous psychotic, Jeff Murray, whose perverted mother obsession leads him on a blood-soaked rampage across the glitter of Sin City.

The Las Vegas Strangler

1968

Breaking Point poster
6.5

The Mafia tries to take revenge against a man who testified against them in court.

Breaking Point

1976

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

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

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

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

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

Celluloid Wizards in the Video Wasteland: The Saga of Empire Pictures poster
NR

The official feature-length documentary about the rise and fall of Charles Band's legendary Empire Pictures studio.

Celluloid Wizards in the Video Wasteland: The Saga of Empire Pictures

The Road Hustlers poster
4.3

A family of bootleggers fight against the sheriff and local gangsters.

The Road Hustlers

1968

Love and Other Stunts poster
NR

Gary Kent was the king of B movies in the Sixties and Seventies, working for indie directors from Richard Rush to Ray Dennis Stickler to Al Adamson, but he's tackled even larger real-life challenges.

Love and Other Stunts

2018

Deadwood '76 poster
5.0

A young drifter is mistaken for Billy the Kid. The concequences prove deadly.

Deadwood '76

1965

Behind the camera

Kingdom of the Spiders poster
5.6

Investigating the mysterious deaths of a number of farm animals, vet Rack Hansen discovers that his town lies in the path of hordes of migrating tarantulas. Before he can take action, the streets are overrun by killer spiders, trapping a small group of townsfolk in a remote hotel.

Kingdom of the Spiders

1977

Legends of the West poster
NR

Host Jack Palance explores how Hollywood has depicted Western legends like George Armstrong Custer, Billy the Kid, Crazy Horse and the O.K. Corral

Legends of the West

1992

Night Shadows poster
5.1

When brothers Josh and Mike go to a small southern town for a vacation, they find most of the residents either dead or missing. Mike soon disappears as well, leaving Josh to team up with the local sheriff and school teacher to find him in a town that’s hiding a dark, twisted secret.

Night Shadows

1984

Outlaw of Gor poster
2.9

An Earthman returns to the planet Gor, and fights against tyranny.

Outlaw of Gor

1988

The Dark poster
4.7

At night the Mangler stalks the streets of Los Angeles, killing and mutilating random victims. On the trail are a TV reporter, the father of one of the victims, and a police detective, but despite their efforts only the mysterious psychic DeRenzy knows what the killer is and how to stop it.

The Dark

1979

The Dark poster
4.7

At night the Mangler stalks the streets of Los Angeles, killing and mutilating random victims. On the trail are a TV reporter, the father of one of the victims, and a police detective, but despite their efforts only the mysterious psychic DeRenzy knows what the killer is and how to stop it.

The Dark

1979

The Day Time Ended poster
3.7

Deep in the desert, a rural American family is forced to endure a night of inter-dimensional, extra terrestrial terror when a UFO appears over their home.

The Day Time Ended

1980

Act of Piracy poster
3.9

A large motor yacht becomes the focal point in this action tale when a group of mercenaries decide to capture the vessel. The original owner, who was delivering it to Sydney, Australia, is believed dead but is in fact very much alive, and determined to recover the yacht...

Act of Piracy

1988

Skeleton Coast poster
4.6

A retired Army colonel attempts to rescue his imprisoned son in this action packed thriller. To save his CIA operative son from terrorists, Col. Smith (Ernest Borgnine) and a group of mercenaries head to war-torn Angola's Skeleton Coast, where they must infiltrate an armed compound run by a sadistic East German officer before Smith's son is tortured to death. Robert Vaughn, Oliver Reed and Herbert Lom costar.

Skeleton Coast

1988

The Red, White, and Black poster
10.0

Told by a U.S. Army colonel and his wife, this vintage Western set in post-Civil War Texas chronicles the exploits of the all-black 10th cavalry regiment, which was formed in 1871. Cesar Romero plays the unit's commander.

The Red, White, and Black

1970

Drag Racer poster
NR

Jeff is sick of losing weekend grudge matches with his Dodge Challenger and longs for the chance to drive a top fuel dragster. When a top racing team cans their driver, Jeff sees an opportunity to make his dreams come true. IF he can prove that he has what it takes to be a real driver.

Drag Racer

1972