Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson

Brought to life through archival material and the perspectives of over forty colleagues, friends, and fans, BLOOD & FLESH is more than a chronicle of a moviemaking life unlike any other. It skillfully depicts the worlds of outsider filmmaker communities thriving in 1970s California, and the uncanny ways they intersected with Hollywood's mainstream and the union-driven Indies. On Adamson shoots, regular Orson Welles crew and celebrated cinematographers Gary Graver, Vilmos Zsigmond, and Laszlo Kovacs worked alongside Bud Cardos - and at one point, with Charles Manson. Director David Gregory (founder of Severin Films, director of Lost Soul: The Doom of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau) devoted years to this film, interviewing everyone from the officers who investigated Adamson's murder to the people who knew him. The result is a vivid portrait of a bold life and a tragic end, peppered with alien conspiracies, go-go dancers, and even Colonel Sanders along the way. If you’ve got even a passing interest in cinema, you’ll want to see this.