
Directing
John "Bud" Cardos
Born 1929-12-20 · St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Acting credits
4.4The 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
4.2In 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
5.2At 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
4.0The disfigured curator of a wax museum murders his enemies and then uses their bodies as exhibits in his museum.
Nightmare in Wax
1969
3.2Astronauts 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
4.3Count 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
5.0Previously 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
6.5The Mafia tries to take revenge against a man who testified against them in court.
Breaking Point
1976
4.8An all-female gang living on a ranch gets involved with a pair of bikers.
The Female Bunch
1971
4.8The 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
4.3A 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
6.8Brought 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
4.2Bikers, 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
NRThe 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
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4.3A family of bootleggers fight against the sheriff and local gangsters.
The Road Hustlers
1968
NRGary 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
5.0A young drifter is mistaken for Billy the Kid. The concequences prove deadly.
Deadwood '76
1965
Behind the camera
5.6Investigating 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
NRHost 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
5.1When 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
2.9An Earthman returns to the planet Gor, and fights against tyranny.
Outlaw of Gor
1988
4.7At 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
4.7At 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
3.7Deep 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
3.9A 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
4.6A 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
10.0Told 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
NRJeff 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