Al Adamson

Directing

Al Adamson

Born July 25, 1929Hollywood, California, USA32 credits

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Al Adamson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Filmography

Lost
1983Lost
DirectorMovie
Carnival Magic
1983Carnival Magic
DirectorMovie
Nurse Sherri
1978Nurse Sherri
DirectorMovie
Death Dimension
1978Death Dimension
DirectorMovie
Sunset Cove
1978Sunset Cove
DirectorMovie
Doctor Dracula
1978Doctor Dracula
DirectorMovie
Cinderella 2000
1977Cinderella 2000
DirectorMovie
Black Samurai
1976Black Samurai
DirectorMovie
Black Heat
1976Black Heat
as UncreditedMovie
Jessi's Girls
1975Jessi's Girls
DirectorMovie
Girls for Rent
1974Girls for Rent
DirectorMovie
Mean Mother
1974Mean Mother
DirectorMovie
Lash of Lust
1972Lash of Lust
DirectorMovie
Brain of Blood
1971Brain of Blood
DirectorMovie
Horror of the Blood Monsters
1970Horror of the Blood Monsters
as Earthly Vampire (uncredited)Movie
Satan's Sadists
1969Satan's Sadists
DirectorMovie
Psycho a Go-Go
1965Psycho a Go-Go
as Travis (uncredited)Movie