Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson. Part of Severin Films Season

‘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, ageing actors, freak-out girls, Charles Manson, Colonel Sanders, alien conspiracies and homicidal contractors. 

“Brilliant stuff…a superb documentary and one of the top films of the year.” House of Mortal Cinema

Severin Films Season 

Triskel Arts Centre presents a season of documentaries from Severin Films, a company dedicated to the world’s most provocative cinema for physical media, theatrical release, streaming and beyond. Founded in 2006 by David Gregory, Carl Daft and John Cregan, Severin’s curatorial and archival work has produced acclaimed collectors’ editions and box sets - all with exclusive/extensive Special Features - that has placed the company at the forefront of the industry, while their original productions have won numerous awards on the international festival circuit. 

Three feature-length documentaries from Severin Films will be screened over three consecutive evenings: BLOOD & FLESH: THE REAL LIFE & GHASTLY DEATH OF AL ADAMSON (about the film career and tragic real-life murder of director Al Adamson), ENTER THE CLONES OF BRUCE (a look at the bizarre genre of films imitating the work of legendary actor Bruce Lee) and MANCUNIAN MAN: THE LEGENDARY LIFE OF CLIFF TWEMLOW (a fascinating account of bouncer, novelist, composer, screenwriter, producer and actor Cliff Twenlow). 

While these documentaries will be of interest to cult movie fans, they are also entertaining explorations of their subjects for the casual viewer to thoroughly enjoy also.