BLOOD & FLESH : THE REEL LIFE AND GHASTLY DEATH OF AL ADAMSON
Tue Nov 5, 18:15 - Tue Nov 5, 20:15
Labia Theatre
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BLOOD & FLESH : THE REEL LIFE AND GHASTLY DEATH OF AL ADAMSON
(Documentary)
African Premiere
‘Horror Film Director Found Slain, Buried Under Floor’, screamed the August 1995 headline in The Los Angeles Times.
But the whole truth behind Al Adamson’s strange life and ghastly death reveals perhaps the most bizarre career in Hollywood history.
From his early years as the son of a silent screen cowboy, through the production of some 30 lurid low budget pictures including SATAN'S SADISTS, DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN and THE NAUGHTY STEWARDESSES, to his grisly demise, the Al Adamson story remains wild beyond belief. Told through over 40 first-person recollections from friends, family, colleagues and historians, plus rare clips and archival interviews with Adamson himself, BLOOD & FLESH: THE REEL LIFE & GHASTLY DEATH OF AL ADAMSON is the delightful, dirty and deadly documentary of bikers, go-go dancers, ageing Hollywood actors, porn stars, freak-out girls, Charles Manson, Colonel Sanders, alien conspiracies, bad contractors and “scenes so SICK the Movies could never show them before!”
Directed by David Gregory (who directed the documentary Lost Soul on SA born filmmaker Richard Stanley's Doctor Moreau experience)
For info on the rest of the HORRORFEST (running from 29 October - 7 November), which includes loads of movies and several short film chapters (which you're unlikely to see in any SA cinema), live soundtrack performance to a classic silent film, literature, Halloween dress-up competition and much more, head to www.HORRORFEST.info and join the social media locations listed below the festival promo clip:
Official HorrorFest site: www.horrorfest.info
Event trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFh62j-3IpI
Like the festival page: www.facebook.com/SouthAfricanHorrorfest
Join the group page: www.facebook.com/groups/SouthAfricanHorrorFest
Short story competition: www.bloodyparchment.blogspot.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/SAhorrorfest
Follow: www.twitter.com/SAhorrorfest
Like Bloody Parchment at: www.facebook.com/groups/220467498075567
See the Makabra Ensemble site at: www.terminatryx.com/makabra
Like the Makabra Ensemble Facebook page at: www.facebook.com/MakabraEnsemble