Al Adamson

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Al Adamson

Born July 25, 1929 · Hollywood, California, USA

Died June 21, 1995 · aged 65

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…

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Dracula vs. FrankensteinDracula vs. Frankenstein · 1971
Dracula vs. Frankenstein
★ 4.51971
MovieHorrorScience Fiction
Judith Fontaine is looking for her sister Joanie, who has disappeared into the hippie community of Venice, California. It turns out that Joanie has become fallen victim to Groton, an axe-wielding homicidal maniac under the employ of Dr. Durea, the last living descendant of the Frankenstein family and is now both running a house of horrors on the beach's boardwalk and performing experiments on Groton's victims in his basement laboratory.
Death DimensionDeath Dimension · 1978
Death Dimension
★ 4.41978
MovieActionScience Fiction
The 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.
Five Bloody GravesFive Bloody Graves · 1969
Five Bloody Graves
★ 4.31969
MovieWesternThriller
A 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.
Blood of Dracula's CastleBlood of Dracula's Castle · 1969
Blood of Dracula's Castle
★ 4.31969
MovieHorror
Count 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.
The Female BunchThe Female Bunch · 1971
The Female Bunch
★ 4.81971
MovieActionWestern
An all-female gang living on a ranch gets involved with a pair of bikers.
The Fiend with the Electronic BrainThe Fiend with the Electronic Brain · 1967
The Fiend with the Electronic Brain
★ 6.01967
MovieThrillerScience Fiction
The Fiend with the Electronic Brain was a re-release of Al Adamson's Psycho A Go-Go featuring new footage starring John Carradine that re-imagined the original film's story with a sci-fi plot.
Horror of the Blood MonstersHorror of the Blood Monsters · 1970
Horror of the Blood Monsters
★ 3.21970
MovieActionHorror
Astronauts land on a planet with prehistoric creatures and a war between a human-like tribe and a race of vampires.
Jessi's GirlsJessi's Girls · 1975
Jessi's Girls
★ 5.31975
MovieWestern
A young Mormon couple is attacked by a bunch of outlaws. They kill the man and the woman is raped several times and left for dead in the desert. With the last ounce of her strength she gets to the hut of an old hermit who nurses her back to health and teaches her how to shoot. The woman then frees three female criminals and seeks vengeance on the outlaws.

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Hell's Bloody DevilsHell's Bloody Devils · 1970
Hell's Bloody Devils
★ 4.21970
MovieDramaAction
Bikers, 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.

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