Al Adamson Schlock Films, Trailers, News Reports

1969 Al Adamson movie trailer for Five Bloody Graves. And some movie poster art, lobby card, Newspaper advertisements. Independent International Pictures. While Italians were churning out cheap ‘westerns’ in Spain in the late 1960s, a few Americans were trying the same formula in Utah. They produced ‘American spaghetti’, what you might call burger westerns perhaps, cheap knock-off oaters with a slightly modern twist. Fair enough. Small independent producers had always been making B (or C) Westerns. This one was the brainchild of Robert Dix, sixth-billed in the trashy Forty Guns and son of Richard. Dix was producer, star and writer of Five Bloody Graves so it’s hard to blame anyone else. Howard Thompson in The New York Times said it was “a perfectly awful little Western without a single gory grave.” He had a point. It is pretty bad, though I would say marginally better than most spaghettis.

1967 Al Adamson schlock film from 1967 Blood of Ghastly Horror Movie Trailer and Movie Poster Art Slideshow Music Video.

Movie Trailer for 1969 Al Adamson schlock film Satan's Sadists

1971 Dracula vs. Frankenstein Movie Trailer & Poster Art Music Video for Al Adamson Horror Film...

Dracula vs. Frankenstein, released in the UK as Blood of Frankenstein, is a 1971 American science fiction horror film directed and co-produced by Al Adamson. The film stars J. Carrol Naish as Dr. Durea, a descendant of Dr. Frankenstein who is working on a blood serum with his assistant Groton (Lon Chaney Jr.). The serum soon becomes sought after by Count Dracula (Zandor Vorkov), who hopes that it will grant him the ability to be exposed to sunlight without harm. Other members of the film's cast include Anthony Eisley, Regina Carrol, Angelo Rossitto, Jim Davis and Russ Tamblyn.

Blood and Flesh: The Reel Life and Ghastly Death of Al Adamson Original title: Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson 2019 Blood and Flesh: The Reel Life and Ghastly Death of Al Adamson (2019) Maverick indie filmmaker Al Adamson's real life was even crazier than one of the 30-plus sex 'n' schlock drive-in movies he made in the '60s and '70s. Director: David Gregory Stars: Al Adamson, Samuel M. Sherman, Chris Poggiali

1967 Blood of Ghastly Horror Al Adamson Schlock Horror Film Blood of Ghastly Horror is a 1967 science fiction horror film directed by Al Adamson and starring John Carradine, Tommy Kirk, Kent Taylor, and Regina Carrol. Blood of Ghastly Horror was re-edited from an earlier film directed by Al Adamson in 1965 titled Psycho A-Go-Go. That film was a straight action thriller about a mentally disturbed man named Joe Corey who pulls off a diamond heist and the stolen jewels wind up hidden in a child's doll, which Corey must track down. In 1969, Psycho A-Go-Go was totally re-edited, with additional footage featuring actor John Carradine as a mad scientist added, and the film was re-released by American General as The Fiend with the Electronic Brain.[4] In that version, the Joe Corey character is a Vietnam War veteran who is mentally ill because a mad scientist named Dr. Vanard (John Carradine) experimented on his brain. In the end, Corey winds up strapping Dr. Vanard to his own equipment and electrocuting the mad scientist. Still not satisfied, in 1971 Adamson added more new footage featuring actors Kent Taylor, Tommy Kirk and Regina Carrol, and re-edited the whole thing into an entirely different (horror) film titled Blood of Ghastly Horror. This version was very successfully distributed by Adamson's company Independent-International. In this film, Kent Taylor plays Joe Corey's father who, upon returning from a trip to Haiti, learns that his son's mind and life was destroyed by Dr. Vanard, and decides to seek revenge on anyone in any way associated with his son's death. With the help of a Haitian zombie named Akro, he kidnaps Vanard's daughter (Regina Carrol) and seeks to take out his revenge on her. As if the film hadn't gone through enough title changes over the years, Sam Sherman later released it to U.S. late-night television as The Man With the Synthetic Brain (with a violent nightclub singer's murder excised).[10][11] Most of the elaborate musical nightclub numbers that appeared in Psycho A-Go-Go were also cut from Ghastly Horror since actress Tacey Robbins had retired from acting by 1971 and Adamson no longer had a need to promote her singing abilities. Actor Lyle Felice, who had played a major role in Psycho A-Go-Go (as the leader of the jewel thieves) is hardly even in Ghastly Horror at all, as the whole jewel heist plotline was drastically shortened. Dick Poston, a friend of Sam Sherman's who co-wrote the added material with him for Ghastly Horror, committed suicide several years later by purposely crashing the small plane he was flying in at the time. Sam Sherman was at times asked if the title wasn't a bit overblown, to which he replied "It had blood.....it had horror....and it was certainly ghastly!" He said the film in its third incarnation was incredibly successful, and "played the drive-in circuit and late-night television for many, many years." Mickey Mouse Club graduate Tommy Kirk appeared in the film for $1,000 for two days filming. He said he regards it as a low point of his career.

Satan's Sadists 1969 William Bonner, Regina Carrol, Greydon Clark, Robert Dix, and Russ Tamblyn in Satan's Sadists (1969) The "Satans" are a very cruel biker gang led by Anchor. The gang goes to a diner in the middle of nowhere in the California desert where they begin to terrorize Lew and his patrons and his waitress, Tracy. After a little killing, one of the patrons named Johnny manages to escape ... Director: Al Adamson Writers: Greydon Clark, Russ Tamblyn Stars: Russ Tamblyn, Scott Brady, John 'Bud' Cardos

An Al Adamson Production Independent International Films presents Five Bloody Graves. While Italians were churning out cheap ‘westerns’ in Spain in the late 1960s, a few Americans were trying the same formula in Utah. They produced ‘American spaghetti’, what you might call burger westerns perhaps, cheap knock-off oaters with a slightly modern twist. Fair enough. Small independent producers had always been making B (or C) Westerns. This one was the brainchild of Robert Dix, sixth-billed in the trashy Forty Guns and son of Richard. Dix was producer, star and writer of Five Bloody Graves so it’s hard to blame anyone else. Howard Thompson in The New York Times said it was “a perfectly awful little Western without a single gory grave.” He had a point. It is pretty bad, though I would say marginally better than most spaghettis. Five Bloody Graves is an American western film directed by Al Adamson and starring Robert Dix, Scott Brady, Jim Davis, John Carradine, Paula Raymond. Fruita, Utah was used as a setting for the film. A former Civil War soldier returns to take revenge from a Yaqui chief who killed his wife in the marriage night. Death plays with both men, plus gun-runners and gold-runners, as her emissaries on Earth, to do a large harvest of souls.

Documentary of the macabre murder of grade Z movie producer/director Al Adamson. TV 5 news segment on his death. The E! True Hollywood Story. Plus movie trailers for Blood & Flesh, the Reel Life and Ghastly death of Al Adamson, Satan's Sadists, Blazing Stewardesses, Blood of Ghastly Horror, Psycho A-Go-Go, Dracula vs. Frankenstein, Horror of the Blood Monsters, Blood of Dracula's Castle, Freeze Bomb aka Death Dimension, Brain of Blood, Hell's Bloody Devils, Five Bloody Graves