Michael Findlay

Michael Findlay

Birthday: 1937-08-27

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA

Biography: Michael Findlay, along with his wife Roberta Findlay, directed and produced numerous sexploitation movies. They have been described as "the most notorious filmmakers in the annals of sexploitation". In the mid-to-late 1960s, Findlay was prominent among a small group of underground New York filmmakers (including Joseph W. Sarno, Joseph P. Mawra, and Lou Campa) that produced exploitation "roughies" (a mix of sex and sadism) for the grindhouse theater market. Sometimes he would direct under the alias Julian Marsh and act in his own films billed as Robert West. His wife Roberta (aka Anna Riva) was the cinematographer, co-writer, and supporting actress for many of their films together. They also employed the same actors repeatedly, most notably Uta Erickson, and Marie Brent, aka Janet Banzet. The Findlays were friends with George Weiss, producer of Ed Wood's Glen or Glenda and a series of fetishistic Olga films (Olga's House of Shame, Olga's Girls, et al.). In 1964 Weiss encouraged them to make films in this new subgenre of violent sexploitation. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Findlay, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Movies

Virgins in Heat
Virgins in Heat

A masked man breaks into a Times Square adult movie theater and forces the projectionist at gunpoint...

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The Ultimate Degenerate
The Ultimate Degenerate

Man drugs, photographs & tortures women he meets by personal ads....

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Lusting Hours
Lusting Hours

Presented as an inquiry into the ways of lust, this film is staged as a documentary. It moves from r...

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Take Me Naked
Take Me Naked

A man's sexual obsession with a neighbor ends in bloodshed....

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Janie
Janie

A sadistic teenager searching for "Daddy" murders and dismembers anybody who picks her up hitch-hiki...

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The Kiss of Her Flesh
The Kiss of Her Flesh

Richard has lost what little sanity he had left, instead putting all emphasis on seeking out and bru...

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The Touch of Her Flesh
The Touch of Her Flesh

Richard Jennings returns from a business trip to discover his wife in bed with a lover. Panic strick...

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Party Levitation
Party Levitation

Sickening image of love, sex, death and birth in black and white....

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A Thousand Pleasures
A Thousand Pleasures

Henpecked misogynist Richard Davis murders his shrewish wife and goes out to dispose of her corpse. ...

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Mnasidika
Mnasidika

A man awakes from his sleep to discover that he's in ancient Greece. He witnesses a scantily-clad wo...

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The Altar of Lust
The Altar of Lust

A psychiatrist probes deep into the erotic traumas experienced by a young woman who has turned to le...

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Body of a Female
Body of a Female

A stripper is kidnapped by a drifter and taken to the home of a wealthy pervert. The pervert proceed...

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The Curse of Her Flesh
The Curse of Her Flesh

Continuing his quest to rid the world of sex-crazed females, Richard ups the ante - and bodycount, d...

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Shriek of the Mutilated
Shriek of the Mutilated

An anthropology professor has invited his class to a remote cabin in the mountains to research the m...

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Bacchanale
Bacchanale

Follows a young woman as she travels through the strange, surreal passages reminiscent of Dante's In...

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The Sin Syndicate
The Sin Syndicate

At a Senate crime hearing, four young girls testify as to how, shortly after their arrival in New Yo...

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Take My Head
Take My Head

Shot without sound, this is little more than a series of soft-core vignettes strung together via nar...

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Snuff
Snuff

The followers of a charismatic cult leader set out to murder a pregnant actress....

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The Slaughter
The Slaughter

A famous movie star filming on location in Buenos Aires becomes involved with a Manson-like cult. Ye...

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