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.

Filmography

• 1983Carnival Magic — Director
• 1983Lost — Director
• 1978Bedroom Stewardesses — Director, Writer
• 1978Death Dimension — Director
• 1978Doctor Dracula — Director
• 1978Nurse Sherri — Idea, Director
• 1978Sunset Cove — Director
• 1977Cinderella 2000 — Producer, Director
• 1976Black Heat — Uncredited, Director, Producer
• 1976Black Samurai — Director
• 1976Uncle Tom's Cabin — Director
• 1975Blazing Stewardesses — Director
• 1975Jessi's Girls — Director, Producer
• 1974Girls for Rent — Director
• 1974Mean Mother — Director
• 1974The Dynamite Brothers — Director
• 1973Cry Rape — Producer
• 1973The Naughty Stewardesses — Director
• 1972Angels' Wild Women — Writer, Director
• 1972Doomsday Voyage — Producer
• 1972Hammer — Producer
• 1972Lash of Lust — Director
• 1971Brain of Blood — Producer, Director
• 1971Dracula vs. Frankenstein — Producer, Director, Stunt Double
• 1971The Female Bunch — Director
• 1970Hell's Bloody Devils — Producer, Director
• 1970Horror of the Blood Monsters — Earthly Vampire (uncredited), Director, Producer
• 1969Blood of Dracula's Castle — Producer, Director
• 1969Five Bloody Graves — Director, Producer
• 1969Satan's Sadists — Director, Producer
• 1967Blood of Ghastly Horror — Director, Story, Producer
• 1967The Fiend with the Electronic Brain — Travis, Director, Original Story, Producer
• 1965Psycho a Go Go — Travis (uncredited), Producer, Director, Original Story
• 1960Half Way to Hell — Slade, Producer, Screenstory, Director

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2019Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson — Himself (archive footage)