BLOOD AND FLESH: THE REEL LIFE & GASTLY DEATH OF AL ADAMSON

USA | 2019 | 100 minutes | Director: David Gregory

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 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!

David Gregory made his first feature-length documentary Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Shocking Truth in 2000 for the distribution company he co-founded, Blue Underground. He soon went on to direct – and often produce and edit – over 100 documentary features and shorts for DVD’s that included The Deerhunter, Badlands, Henry: Portrait of A Serial Killer, Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Frances, Near Dark, Heathers and The Man Who Fell To Earth, as well as the feature-length projects The Joe Spinell Story, Ban The Sadist Videos!, The Godfathers of Mondo and the IFC original production The Spaghetti West. He made his narrative feature-directing debut in 2008 with Plague Town – which he also co-wrote and co-edited – that Fangoria hailed as “a nightmare captured on celluloid.” Since then he has gone on to form distribution label Severin Films, co-produced and co-edited the feature horror anthology Theatre Bizarre, the documentary Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island Of Dr. Moreau and most recently co-produced The Color Out Of Space.