Blood of Ghastly Horror [SEP] director
Blood of Ghastly Horror
Blood of Ghastly Horror was a 1971 horror film directed by Al Adamson and starring John Carradine, Tommy Kirk, Kent Taylor and Regina Carrol
Production.
"Blood of Ghastly Horror" has a unique history behind it. It was re-edited from an earlier film directed by Al Adamson in 1965 titled "Psycho A-Go-Go". That film was a straight action thriller about a mentally disturbed man named Joe Corey who pulls off a diamond heist and the stolen jewels wind up
heist plotline was drastically shortened. Tom Poston, a friend of Sam Sherman's who co-wrote the added material with him for "Ghastly Horror", committed suicide several years later by purposely crashing the small plane he was flying in at the time.
Sam Sherman was at times asked if the title wasn't a bit overblown, to which he replied "It had blood...it had horror...and it was certainly ghastly!" He said the film in its third incarnation was incredibly successful, and "played