My 2100th Blog Post - Al Adamson The Masterpiece Collection

 

My 2100th Post

Al Adamson -
The Masterpiece Collection
Review Index
Blu Ray Boxed Edition
Severin Films


Wow, that last 100 posts sailed by quick. That’s what you get from saving on time by not having to commute to the office in a pandemic. Talking of which, I saved not only in time last year but in cash too due to not having to shell out for various different bus line tickets. So, if you’ve been following my blog for the past year, you’ll know I diverted and invested that cash into something worthwhile, aka I shelled out for the wonderful Blu Ray box set put out by Severin in the US, Al Adamson - The Masterpiece Collection... boasting 32 films plus assorted other extras. I reviewed the stunning documentary film Blood And Flesh - The Reel Life And Ghastly Death of Al Adamson last July and then, starting from this March, I began to methodically work my way through the contents in the order the films are threaded in the box... and reviewed each and every one of them. So I thought, why not do an index to my reviews of the titles in this for my 2100th Blog Post? Then, any of my readers who have enjoyed the Adamson reviews I’ve put up here can find them all easily in one place.

Well, it seemed like a good idea and so here it is, with the contents of each disc including the various extras listed (some of which I haven’t got around to watching yet but I’ve seen all the presented films). Most of these discs also include trailers or TV spots, which I’ve not bothered to reiterate in this listing. Please note that two of the reviews listed in this overview of the set were from different sources. I’d already written a review of Dracula VS Frankenstein for a separate release and so didn’t really need to rewrite it (although I obviously did revisit the film itself, on Severin’s beautiful new transfer) and I also reviewed the Vinegar Syndrome edition of Dr. Dracula because it had the whole film on it (plus the original, superior version of the movie)... click on the title of each full movie listed to take you to my review of it.

Disc One
Blood And Flesh - The Reel Life And Ghastly Death Of Al Adamson
Outtakes, The Cowboy Life Of Denver Dixon,
Russ Tamblyn’s Melted TV, Manson and Screaming Angels,
The Prophetic Screenplay Makes Gary Kent Testify,
Beyond The Earth Promo Reel

The Female Bunch
The Bunch Speaks Out, Extended Scenes

Disc Two
Psycho-A-Go-Go
Blood Of Ghastly Horror
The Fiend With The Electronic Brain
Archived Audio Commentary with Producer/Distributor Samuel M Sherman,
Alternate title sequence as Man With The Synthetic Brain

Disc Three
Half Way To Hell

Five Bloody Graves
Outside Of Tucson Interview with actor/screenwriter Robert Dix,
Partial Archival Audio Commentary with Producer/Distributor Samuel M Sherman,
Alternate Five Bloody Days To Tombstone Title Sequence

Disc Four
Blood Of Dracula’s Castle
Partial Audio Commentary with expert Brian Albright,
Audio Interview excerpt with Alex D’Arcy

Horror Of The Blood Monsters
Partial Archival Audio Commentary with Producer/Distributor Samuel M Sherman,
Alternate Space Mission Of The Lost Planet Title Sequence

Disc Five
The Fakers
Alternate Smashing The Crime Syndicate Titles

Hell’s Bloody Devils
Archival Audio Commentary with Producer/Distributor Samuel M Sherman,
Sam Sherman interviews actor John Gabriel

 

Disc Six
Dracula Vs Frankenstein (my old Cheezy Flicks edition review)
Archival Audio Commentary with Producer/Distributor Samuel M Sherman,
Zandor And Friends, Feed Your Head! Lose Your Head!,
Monster Protest Home Movie Footage,
Sam Sherman interviews Forry Ackerman, Outtakes

Brain Of Blood
Partial Archival Audio Commentary with Producer/Distributor Samuel M Sherman,
Memories Of Blood

Disc Seven
Satan’s Sadists
Archival Audio Commentary with Producer/Distributor Samuel M Sherman, Outtakes

Angels’ Wild Women

Disc Eight
The Naughty Stewardesses
Archival Audio Commentary with Producer/Distributor Samuel M Sherman,
Fly Girls - The Stewardess as Lifestyle Icon in the Golden Age of Exploitation Film

Blazing Stewardesses
Archival Audio Commentary with Producer/Distributor Samuel M Sherman,
Alternate The Great Truck Robbery Title Sequence,
Bedroom Stewardesses Adamson Footage

Disc Nine
Girls For Rent
Archival Audio Commentary with Producer/Distributor Samuel M Sherman,
Alternate I Spit On Your Corpse Title Sequence

Jessi’s Girls

Nurses For Sale

Disc Ten
Black Heat
Partial Archival Audio Commentary with Producer/Distributor Samuel M Sherman,
Alternate Girls Hotel Title Sequence, Alternate The Murder Gang Title Sequence

The Dynamite Brothers

Disc Eleven
Mean Mother
Partial Archival Audio Commentary with Producer/Distributor Samuel M Sherman,
The Joy Of Marilyn Joi

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Disc Twelve
Black Samurai

Death Dimension

Disc Thirteen
Sunset Cove
Sunset Toolbox

Cinderella 2000
Partial Archival Audio Commentary with Producer/Distributor Samuel M Sherman

Nurse Sherri
Dr. Dracula Adamson scenes

BONUS REVIEW: Vinegar Syndrome’s release of Lucifer’s Women/Dr. Dracula 

 

Disc Fourteen
Carnival Magic
A Boon To Science, Audio Commentary by Producer Elvin Feltner, Outtakes

Lost
The Happy Hobo - Rushes For Promo from unproduced Adamson kid’s film.

And there you have it. I must say, I had a really good time with most of this boxed set and even the truly terrible movies contributed to me rediscovering my passion for film. I hope you had a good time reading about them (if you clicked on any of the links) as I did writing about them.