Severin Films, producer of the excellent documentary BLOOD & FLESH: THE REEL LIFE AND GHASTLY DEATH OF AL ADAMSON, is now honoring the prolific B-movie master with an extensive disc package of his horror and other exploitation films.
On April 21, Severin will release AL ADAMSON: THE MASTERPIECE COLLECTION, the biggest Blu-ray boxed set ever devoted to a single genre filmmaker. The 14-disc set compiles 31 of Adamson’s remastered features (including DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN, pictured above, HORROR OF THE BLOOD MONSTERS, NURSE SHERRI and other chillers; see the full list below), plus BLOOD & FLESH, accompanied by audio commentaries, trailers, a 126-page book and more. “Al Adamson worked best on the fringes of Hollywood,” says Severin president/BLOOD & FLESH director David Gregory. “When considering the golden age of drive-in and grindhouse films, he’s truly in a category all his own. It’s an unprecedented legacy that lends itself to what we believe to be the most absurdly compendious box set not only in genre history but—other than Criterion’s INGMAR BERGMAN’S CINEMA collection—quite possibly the annals of home video itself.”
The complete list of films is as follows:
- ANGELS’ WILD WOMEN
- BLACK HEAT
- BLACK SAMURAI
- BLAZING STEWARDESSES
- BLOOD & FLESH: THE REEL LIFE & GHASTLY DEATH OF AL ADAMSON
- BLOOD OF DRACULA’S CASTLE
- BLOOD OF GHASTLY HORROR
- BRAIN OF BLOOD
- CARNIVAL MAGIC
- CINDERELLA 2000
- DEATH DIMENSION
- DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN
- DRACULA’S CASTLE
- THE DYNAMITE BROTHERS
- THE FAKERS
- THE FEMALE BUNCH
- THE FIEND WITH THE ELECTRIC BRAIN
- FIVE BLOODY GRAVES
- GIRLS FOR RENT
- HALF WAY TO HELL
- HELL’S BLOODY DEVILS
- HORROR OF THE BLOOD MONSTERS
- JESSI’S GIRLS
- LOST
- MEAN MOTHER
- THE NAUGHTY STEWARDESSES
- NURSE SHERRI
- NURSES FOR SALE
- PSYCHO A-GO-GO
- SATAN’S SADISTS
- SUNSET COVE
- UNCLE TOM’S CABIN
The set retails for $170 and is limited to just 2,000 units. It’s available for pre-order at the Severin Films webstore, along with individual Blu-rays ($24) and DVDs ($17) of BLOOD & FLESH, and bundles including signed posters, CARNIVAL MAGIC T-shirts, reproduction DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN fangs, SATAN’S SADISTS patches, an authentic repressing of the 7-inch 45 rpm single from the theatrical release of THE FEMALE BUNCH and more. See trailers for THE AL ADAMSON COLLECTION and BLOOD & FLESH below and our review of BLOOD & FLESH here, and look for an extensive interview with Gregory, BLOOD & FLESH producer Heather Buckley and editor Michael Capone in RUE MORGUE #193, now available for pre-order here!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtf7GLoEyVc
