Al Adamson
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 murdered corpse beneath the concrete and tile-covered whirlpool bath in his newly remodeled bathroom. The perpetrator was his live-in contractor Fred Fulford who, after being apprehended at the Coral Reef hotel on St Pete Beach, Florida, was charged with and convicted of murder, and was sentenced to twenty-five-years in prison.
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Known For | Directing |
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Most Rating | 4.462 |
Birthday | 1929-07-25 |
Place of Birth | Hollywood, California, USA |
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1970
Horror of the Blood Monsters
3.3/34
Astronauts land on a planet with prehistoric creatures and a war between a human-like tribe and a race of vampires.
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Horror of the Blood Monsters
1960
Half Way to Hell
4/8
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Half Way to Hell
2019
Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson
6.8/23
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Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson
1965
Psycho a Go-Go
4.5/15
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Psycho a Go-Go
1967
The Fiend with the Electronic Brain
6/0
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The Fiend with the Electronic Brain
1976
Black Heat
4.3/10
Kicks Carter is a streetwise policeman whose beat is Las Vegas. A crime gang is running guns, selling drugs, loan-sharking, and running a prostitution...
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