Severin Films has announced that it will release on Blu-ray Al Adamson: The Masterpiece Collection. The fourteen-disc box set will be available for purchase on April 21.
Label description: Severin Films is proud to present the most comprehensive Blu-ray box set ever dedicated to the works of a single genre filmmaker with Al Adamson: The Masterpiece Collection, featuring 31 remastered Adamson films on 14 discs, plus trailers, audio commentaries, a 126-page book, the 2019 documentary feature BLOOD & FLESH: THE REEL LIFE & GHASTLY DEATH OF AL ADAMSON and more. Exhaustively compiled for the first time ever, Adamson's ouvre spans a wild beyond belief world of bloody brains, vicious cowboys, naughty nurses, decrepit actors, sexy stewardesses, mad scientists, brutal bikers, Blaxploitation mayhem, kung fu killers and "scenes so SICK the Movies could never show them before!"
The life and career of B-movie maverick Adamson known for such low budget classics as SATAN'S SADISTS, DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN and THE NAUGHTY STEWARDESSES (as well as his own grisly 1995 murder) reveals perhaps the most bizarre career in Hollywood history.
BOX SET CONTENT:
Disc 1: Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson/The Female Bunch
Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson Special Features:
Outtakes The Cowboy Life Of Denver Dixon, Russ Tamblyn's Melted TV, Manson & Screaming Angels, and The Prophetic Screenplay Makes Gary Kent Testify
Beyond This Earth Promo Reel
Trailer
The Female Bunch Special Features:
The Bunch Speaks Out
Trailers
Disc 2: Psycho A Go-Go/Fiend with the Electronic Brain/Blood of Ghastly Horror
Psycho A Go-Go Special Features:
Trailer
Fiend with the Electronic Brain Special Features:
Alternate Title Sequence: Man with the Synthetic Brain
Trailer
Blood of Ghastly Horror Special Features:
Archival Audio Commentary with Producer Samuel M. Sherman
Trailer
Disc 3: Halfway to Hell/Five Bloody Graves
Five Bloody Graves Special Features:
Outside of Tucson: Interview with Actor/Screenwriter Robert Dix
Partial Archival Audio Commentary with Producer/Distributor Samuel M. Sherman
Alternate Title Sequence: Five Bloody Days to Tombstone
Radio Spots
Trailer
Disc 4: Blood of Dracula's Castle (Both Theatrical and TV cuts)/Horror of the Blood Monsters
Blood of Dracula's Castle Special Features:
Partial Audio Commentary with Expert Brian Albright
Audio Interview Excerpt with Alex D'Arcy
Trailer
Horror of the Blood Monsters Special Features:
Partial Archival Audio Commentary with Producer/Distributor Samuel M. Sherman
Alternate Title Sequence: Space Mission of the Lost Planet
Trailers
TV Spots
Radio Spot
Disc 5: Smashing the Crime Syndicate (a.k.a The Fakers)/Hell's Bloody Devils
Smashing The Crime Syndicate Special Features:
Alternate Title Sequence: The Fakers (Original Title)
Hell's Bloody Devils Special Features:
Archival Audio Commentary with Producer/Distributor Samuel M. Sherman
Sam Sherman Interviews Actor John Gabriel
Trailer
TV Spots
Disc 6: Dracula vs. Frankenstein/Brain of Blood
Dracula vs. Frankenstein Special Features:
Zandor and Friends: Interview with Cast & Crew
Archival Audio Commentary with Producer/Distributor Samuel M. Sherman
Feed Your Head! Lose Your Head!: An Appreciation by Cult Film Historian Howard S. Berger
Monster Protest Home Movie Footage
Sam Sherman Interviews Forry Ackerman
Outtakes
Trailer
TV Spot
Audio Spots Including Triple Feature of Dracula vs. Frankenstein, Frankenstein's Bloody Terror, and Horror of the Blood Monsters
Brain of Blood Special Features:
Partial Archival Audio Commentary with Producer/Distributor Samuel M. Sherman
Memories of Blood: Interviews with Director Al Adamson, Producer Samuel M. Sherman, Actor Zandor Vorkov and More
Trailer
Radio Spots
Disc 7: Satan's Sadists/Angel's Wild Women
Satan's Sadists Special Features:
Archival Audio Commentary with Producer/Distributor Samuel M. Sherman
TV Spots
Outtakes
Radio Spots
Trailers
Angel's Wild Women Special Features:
Archival Audio Commentary with Producer/Distributor Samuel M. Sherman
TV Spot
Radio Spots
Trailer
Disc 8: The Naughty Stewardesses/Blazing Stewardesses
The Naughty Stewardesses Special Features:
Archival Audio Commentary with Producer/Distributor Samuel M. Sherman
Fly Girls: The Stewardess as Lifestyle Icon in The Golden Age of Exploitation
TV Spot
Radio Spots
Trailer
Blazing Stewardesses Special Features:
Archival Audio Commentary with Producer/Distributor Samuel M. Sherman
Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson
Synopsis:
'Horror Film Director Found Slain, Buried Under Floor', screamed the 1995 headlines read around the world. But the truth behind the wild life of Al Adamson including the production of such low budget classics as SATAN'S SADISTS, DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN and THE NAUGHTY STEWARDESSES and his grisly death reveals perhaps the most bizarre career in Hollywood history. Told through over 40 first-person recollections from friends, family, colleagues and historians plus rare clips and archival interviews with Adamson himself BLOOD & FLESH is the award-winning chronicle of bikers, go-go dancers, porn stars, aging actors, freak-out girls, Charles Manson, Colonel Sanders, alien conspiracies and homicidal contractors that House Of Mortal Cinema calls "brilliant stuff a superb documentary and one of the top films of the year."
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Outtakes The Cowboy Life Of Denver Dixon, Russ Tamblyn's Melted TV, Manson & Screaming Angels, and The Prophetic Screenplay Makes Gary Kent Testify
Beyond This Earth Promo Reel
Trailer
BONUS FILM: The Female Bunch
The Bunch Speaks Out
THE FEMALE BUNCH Trailers
REGION-FREE
Carnival Magic
Synopsis: For his penultimate film, exploitation legend Al Adamson (SATAN'S SADISTS, DRACULA VS. FRANKESTEIN) made perhaps the strangest move of his career with this surreal foray into 'family entertainment': Severin Kids presents Adamson's first children's movie, a delightful tale of alcoholism, domestic violence, a talking chimp with a brassiere fetish, vivisection, suicide, 'The Freak-Out Girl' Regina Carrol in her final performance flaunting an array of skintight/low-cut outfits, and not a single role for children. Don Stewart (THE GUIDING LIGHT) and Joe Cirillo (GHOSTBUSTERS) co-star in the infamous '80s oddity that has been hailed as "possibly the worst kiddie movie ever made" (DVD Drive-In) and "the finest family film since E.T." (Joe Franklin), now scanned from the only surviving pre-print 35mm elements with all-new Special Features including his last complete feature, the Sandra Dee starrer LOST that reveal Al's bizarre kiddie matinee legacy.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
A Boom To Science A Critical Appreciation by Zack Carlson & Lars Nilsen
Audio Commentary with Producer Elvin Feltner
Outtakes
TV Spot
Trailer
Bonus Film: LOST
The Happy Hobo Rushes for Promo From Unproduced Adamson Kids Film