Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson
23/08/2019
2h

Brought to life through archival material and the reflections of over 40 colleagues, friends and fans, BLOOD & FLESH is much more than the story of a moviemaking life most unusual. It beautifully captures the worlds of outsider filmmaker communities that existed in California in the ’70s, and the weird ways they intersected with Hollywood mainstream and union indies. On Adamson shoots, regular Orson Welles crew and cinematographers like Gary Graver, Vilmos Szigmond and Lazlo Kovaks worked alongside Bud Cardos — and at one point, Charles Manson! Director David Gregory (founder of Severin Films, director of LOST SOUL: THE DOOMED JOURNEY OF RICHARD STANLEY’S ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU) spent years making this film, speaking to everyone down to the cops who investigated Adamson’s murder, vividly encapsulating both a bold life and tragic demise, with alien conspiracies, go-go dancers and Colonel Sanders coming in along the way. If you’ve got even a passing interest in cinema, you want to see this
Cast


Al Adamson
Himself (archive footage)


Fred Olen Ray
Self


Marilyn Joi


Gary Kent


Robert Dix


John "Bud" Cardos
Tim Ferrante
David Konow


Leslie McRay
Chris Poggiali
Linda Sherman
Samuel M. Sherman


Russ Tamblyn


Zandor Vorkov
Michael J. Weldon


Sharyn Wynters


Biff Yeager


Vilmos Zsigmond


Gary Graver
Himself (archive footage)
John Bloom
Himself (archive footage)
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