Michael Findlay
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.
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Known For | Directing |
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Most Rating | 1.318 |
Birthday | 1937-08-27 |
Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
Also Known As | Robert West, Julian Marsh, Francis Ellie, Robert Wuesterwurst, |
1976
Virgins in Heat
0/0
A masked man breaks into a Times Square adult movie theater and forces the projectionist at gunpoint to show assorted pornographic scenes to him.
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Virgins in Heat
1969
The Ultimate Degenerate
4.7/11
Man drugs, photographs & tortures women he meets by personal ads.
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The Ultimate Degenerate
1967
Lusting Hours
4/5
Presented as an inquiry into the ways of lust, this film is staged as a documentary. It moves from rural prostitution (the roadhouse) to pornographers...
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Lusting Hours
1966
Take Me Naked
4.2/4
A man's sexual obsession with a neighbor ends in bloodshed.
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Take Me Naked
1970
Janie
5.6/5
A sadistic teenager searching for "Daddy" murders and dismembers anybody who picks her up hitch-hiking.
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Janie
1968
The Kiss of Her Flesh
5.5/6
Richard has lost what little sanity he had left, instead putting all emphasis on seeking out and brutally slaying any and every woman who crosses his...
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The Kiss of Her Flesh
1967
The Touch of Her Flesh
4.9/8
Richard Jennings returns from a business trip to discover his wife in bed with a lover. Panic stricken, he staggers to the street and is hit by a car,...
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The Touch of Her Flesh
2021
Party Levitation
0/0
Sickening image of love, sex, death and birth in black and white.
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Party Levitation
1968
A Thousand Pleasures
4.6/7
Henpecked misogynist Richard Davis murders his shrewish wife and goes out to dispose of her corpse. However, things go awry for Richard after he's abd...
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A Thousand Pleasures
1969
Mnasidika
2.8/4
A man awakes from his sleep to discover that he's in ancient Greece. He witnesses a scantily-clad woman whom he woos, then kills with a club. A group...
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Mnasidika
1971
The Altar of Lust
5/5
A psychiatrist probes deep into the erotic traumas experienced by a young woman who has turned to lesbianism.
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The Altar of Lust
1964
Body of a Female
3.5/2
A stripper is kidnapped by a drifter and taken to the home of a wealthy pervert. The pervert proceeds to strip her and beat her with a whip. She escap...
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Body of a Female
1968
The Curse of Her Flesh
6/7
Continuing his quest to rid the world of sex-crazed females, Richard ups the ante - and bodycount, devising an array of increasingly gruesome methods...
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The Curse of Her Flesh
1974
Shriek of the Mutilated
4.4/20
An anthropology professor has invited his class to a remote cabin in the mountains to research the mythical Abominable Snowman. Soon after they arrive...
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Shriek of the Mutilated
1970
Bacchanale
4.625/8
Follows a young woman as she travels through the strange, surreal passages reminiscent of Dante's Inferno.
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Bacchanale
1965
The Sin Syndicate
4/4
At a Senate crime hearing, four young girls testify as to how, shortly after their arrival in New York, they became "zero girls," also known as "party...
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The Sin Syndicate
1970
Take My Head
2/1
Shot without sound, this is little more than a series of soft-core vignettes strung together via narration. Not a highlight in the careers of NYC sexp...
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Take My Head
1976
Snuff
3.2/49
The followers of a charismatic cult leader set out to murder a pregnant actress.
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Snuff
1971
The Slaughter
5/1
A famous movie star filming on location in Buenos Aires becomes involved with a Manson-like cult. Years after this flopped at the box office, it was p...
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