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Al Adamson (1929-1995) is an American director and producer.
Adamson was famous for making low-budget horror films in the 1960s and 1970s. Adamson made his directorial debut in 1964 with Two Tickets to Terror. Read the full biography

Al Adamson (1929-1995) is an American director and producer.
Adamson was famous for making low-budget horror films in the 1960s and 1970s. Adamson made his directorial debut in 1964 with Two Tickets to Terror. His later films usually had more than one title, including Psycho-a-Go-Go/Blood of Ghastly Horror/The Fiend With the Atomic Brain/The Love Maniac, a horror film described by author Michael Weldon in The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film (1983) as "an incredibly incoherent disaster". The inconsistency of many of his films stems from his tendency to add new or old sequences to existing films. His Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1970) featured the final performances of famed horror veterans Lon Chaney Jr. and J. Carrol Naish. Adamson's exploitation films include Blazing Stewardesses (1974) and Angel's Wild Women (1972).
The circumstances surrounding his death were as bleak as his film credits. In 1995, he was having his Indio, California home renovated by his live-in contractor Fred Fulford. According to police estimates, Adamson disappeared sometime in mid-July of that year. The director's mysterious disappearance worried his brother, who contacted the police. The case was solved on August 2, 1995, when investigators discovered Adamson's body in a hot tub under a thick layer of concrete. An autopsy revealed that he had been killed by a blow to the back of the head with a large blunt object. Contractor Fulford was convicted of murder.