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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Findlay, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Crew

The Ultimate Degenerate

(Director)

Satan's Bed

(Director)

Snuff

(Director)

Christopher Street Blues

(Director)

Invasion of the Blood Farmers

(Editor)

Shriek of the Mutilated

(Director)

The Curse of Her Flesh

(Director)

The Touch of Her Flesh

(Director)

Take Me Naked

(Director)

A Thousand Pleasures

(Director)

Michael, Angelo and David

(Director)

Michael, Angelo and David

(Cinematography)

Point Me Toward Tomorrow

(Director)

Point Me Toward Tomorrow

(Cinematography)

Take Me Naked

(Producer)

Take Me Naked

(Director of Photography)

Take Me Naked

(Editor)

The Kiss of Her Flesh

(Director)

The Kiss of Her Flesh

(Writer)

The Kiss of Her Flesh

(Editor)

The Sin Syndicate

(Director)

The Sin Syndicate

(Director of Photography)

Virgins in Heat

(Director)

The Touch of Her Flesh

(Writer)

The Touch of Her Flesh

(Producer)

The Touch of Her Flesh

(Editor)

Snuff

(Writer)

Satan's Bed

(Director of Photography)

Satan's Bed

(Editor)

Body of a Female

(Director)

A Thousand Pleasures

(Producer)

A Thousand Pleasures

(Editor)

The Ultimate Degenerate

(Editor)

The Ultimate Degenerate

(Screenplay)

The Ultimate Degenerate

(Producer)

Body of a Female

(Editor)

Body of a Female

(Writer)

Body of a Female

(Producer)

Body of a Female

(Camera Operator)

The Kiss of Her Flesh

(Producer)

The Curse of Her Flesh

(Editor)

The Curse of Her Flesh

(Producer)

The Curse of Her Flesh

(Writer)

The Slaughter

(Director)

The Slaughter

(Screenplay)

Mnasidika

(Producer)

Mnasidika

(Director)

Shriek of the Mutilated

(Editor)

Vice or Versa

(Director)

Vice or Versa

(Producer)

Vice or Versa

(Editor)

Vice or Versa

(Screenplay)

Take My Head

(Director)

Take My Head

(Writer)

Take My Head

(Producer)

Take My Head

(Editor)

Take My Head

(Director of Photography)

Janie

(Director)

Kiss Today Goodbye

(Director)