Albert Victor Adamson Jr. (July 25, 1929 – June 21, 1995) was an American filmmaker and actor known as a prolific director of B-grade horror and exploitation films throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

His father was silent film star and producer Victor Adamson - also known as Art Mix and Denver Dixon - and his mother was actress Dolores Booth.

After assisting his father in making the 1961 western Half Way to Hell, where he served as an uncredited co-director,[7] Adamson decided to work in the motion-picture industry himself full time.

In 1969, Adamson and Sherman founded Independent-International Pictures (in partnership with Dan Kennis),[3] which became the distributor for the many movies he directed, such as Blood of Ghastly Horror, Satan's Sadists and Dracula vs. Frankenstein.

Adamson and Sherman were early collaborators of cinematographers Vilmos Zsigmond and László Kovács, who would later find widespread mainstream success and acclaim as figureheads of the New Hollywood film movement.

[2] When a friend in the business sold Sherman the rights to an unfinished Filipino horror movie, he let Adamson shoot additional footage which was inserted into the film and starred Robert Dix, Vicki Volante, and John Carradine to pad out the running time.

[11] Adamson even created a western-horror hybrid film with his Five Bloody Graves (1969), which starred Robert Dix, John Carradine and Scott Brady, and inserted a number of ultra-violent scenes (savage Indian attacks, rapes, shootings and torture) into what would have just been a mediocre western, and even included narration scenes, with actor Gene Raymond playing "Death".

[12] Adamson filmed some of his movies at the Spahn Ranch in southern California (the adopted home of the notorious Manson Family), such as The Female Bunch (1969) and Angels' Wild Women (1972).

I Spit on Your Corpse) a low point in their association, featuring porn actress Georgina Spelvin raping, and then killing, a mentally disabled man in one scene.

[17] Adamson said Regina was a waitress in a cafe at which he was having lunch, and hearing he was a movie director, she spilled a cup of coffee in his lap to get his attention.

[16] Five weeks later, after law enforcement officials discovered his remains beneath the concrete and tile-covered floor where his hot tub once sat at his home in Indio, California, his live-in contractor Fred Fulford was arrested at the Coral Reef Hotel in Saint Petersburg, Florida.