John "Bud" Cardos
Director · 1929 – 2021 · St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Movies17
Movie4.4ActionScience FictionThe Pig has a plan to eradicate some people with a freeze bomb that instantly freezes people to death. It is up to Detective Ash to stop him and protect the woman with the secret to the ice bomb embedded in a microdot under the skin of her forehead.
Death Dimension
1978 · 27 votes
Movie5.2AdventureDramaAt first gas station attendant Poet is happy when the rockers gang “Hell’s Angels” finally accepts him. But he’s shocked when he learns how brutal they are – not even murder is a taboo to them. He gets himself in trouble when the leader’s girlfriend falls in love with him – and he welcomes her approaches.
Hells Angels on Wheels
1967 · 44 votes
Movie4.8ActionWesternAn all-female gang living on a ranch gets involved with a pair of bikers.
The Female Bunch
1971 · 25 votes
Movie3.2ActionHorrorAstronauts land on a planet with prehistoric creatures and a war between a human-like tribe and a race of vampires.
Horror of the Blood Monsters
1970 · 37 votes
Movie4.3HorrorCount Dracula and his wife capture beautiful young women and chain them in their dungeon, to be used when they need to satisfy their thirst for blood.
Blood of Dracula's Castle
1969 · 34 votes
Movie4.2DramaActionBikers, Nazis, Mafiosi, and the FBI all clash in this wild and wooly exploitation picture from director Al Adamson. Mark Adams (John Gabriel) is an FBI agent who has been assigned to infiltrate an organized crime ring that has obtained a set of printing plates that will allow them to produce nearly perfect counterfeit 20-dollar bills. The plates were made in Germany during World War II, and were discovered by a radical right-wing group hoping to restore the Nazi Party to power. The American gangsters are in cahoots with a group of wealthy American neo-Nazis sympathetic to the new German cause, led by fugitive war criminal Count von Delberg (Kent Taylor); the count has in turn recruited a vicious motorcycle gang, the Bloody Devils, to do his dirty work.
Hell's Bloody Devils
1970 · 15 votes
MovieDocumentaryThe official feature-length documentary about the rise and fall of Charles Band's legendary Empire Pictures studio.
Movie6.5ActionThrillerThe Mafia tries to take revenge against a man who testified against them in court.
Breaking Point
1976 · 6 votes
Movie4.2CrimeDramaIn a small, US costal town with many Spanish speakers, a motorcycle gang arrives on holiday. Also in town to try to reconnect with his pregnant girlfriend, Karen, is businessman Paul Collier. Paul and a leader of the cyclists, J.J., knew each other years before, so when the gang comes upon the couple and, led by the menacing Bunny, beats up Paul and begins a sexual assault of Karen, J.J. tries to intervene: he suggests they hold cycle-riding contests, with the winner claiming Karen (he promises, sotto voce, to set her free if he wins). After the contests commence, Paul crawls away to look for help. He meets with a shrug from a cowardly sheriff's deputy; where can he turn?
Rebel Rousers
1970 · 12 votes
Movie6.8DocumentaryBrought to life through archival material and the reflections of over 40 colleagues, friends and fans, BLOOD & FLESH is much more than the story of a moviemaking life most unusual. It beautifully captures the worlds of outsider filmmaker communities that existed in California in the ’70s, and the weird ways they intersected with Hollywood mainstream and union indies. On Adamson shoots, regular Orson Welles crew and cinematographers like Gary Graver, Vilmos Szigmond and Lazlo Kovaks worked alongside Bud Cardos — and at one point, Charles Manson! Director David Gregory (founder of Severin Films, director of LOST SOUL: THE DOOMED JOURNEY OF RICHARD STANLEY’S ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU) spent years making this film, speaking to everyone down to the cops who investigated Adamson’s murder, vividly encapsulating both a bold life and tragic demise, with alien conspiracies, go-go dancers and Colonel Sanders coming in along the way. If you’ve got even a passing interest in cinema, you want to see this
Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson
2019 · 25 votes
Movie4.8DramaActionThe Satans, a sadistic biker gang led by Anchor, go to a diner in the middle of the California desert where they terrorize owner Lew, waitress Tracy, and the patrons. One patron manages to escape, and must reach a town before the Satans catch up to and kill them.
Satan's Sadists
1969 · 38 votes
Movie4.0HorrorThe disfigured curator of a wax museum murders his enemies and then uses their bodies as exhibits in his museum.
Nightmare in Wax
1969 · 14 votes
MovieDocumentaryGary Kent was the king of B movies in the Sixties and Seventies, working for indie directors from Richard Rush to Ray Dennis Stickler to Al Adamson, but he's tackled even larger real-life challenges.
Movie4.3WesternThrillerA lone gunman hunts the fearsome Apache Satago across the plains of the Wild West. When Satago's marauders ambush a stagecoach, the gunman rides to the rescue of the trapped passengers and helps them in their last stand against the deadly Indians.
Five Bloody Graves
1969 · 17 votes
Movie5.0HorrorThrillerPreviously lost proto-slasher that chronicles the life of murderous psychotic, Jeff Murray, whose perverted mother obsession leads him on a blood-soaked rampage across the glitter of Sin City.
The Las Vegas Strangler
1968 · 14 votes
Movie4.3A family of bootleggers fight against the sheriff and local gangsters.
The Road Hustlers
1968 · 3 votes
Movie5.0WesternA young drifter is mistaken for Billy the Kid. The concequences prove deadly.
Deadwood '76
1965 · 7 votes