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    Michael Findlay

    1937-08-27 (87 years old) in New York City, New York, USA

    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

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    Party Levitation
    0 %|Aug 2, 2021
    Documentary, Horror
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    Snuff
    31.8 %|Jan 16, 1976
    Horror
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    Virgins in Heat
    0 %|Jan 1, 1976
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    Shriek of the Mutilated
    44 %|Aug 2, 1974
    Horror
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    The Altar of Lust
    50 %|Dec 10, 1971
    Drama, Romance, Horror
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    The Slaughter
    50 %|Jan 1, 1971
    Horror, Crime
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    Bacchanale
    46 %|Jun 3, 1970
    Horror
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    Take My Head
    20 %|May 1, 1970
    Drama
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    Janie
    56 %|Jan 1, 1970
    Horror
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    The Ultimate Degenerate
    47 %|Apr 25, 1969
    Horror, Thriller
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    Mnasidika
    28 %|Jan 1, 1969
    Fantasy, Horror
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    The Kiss of Her Flesh
    57 %|Dec 27, 1968
    Thriller, Horror
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    The Curse of Her Flesh
    60 %|Dec 19, 1968
    Horror, Thriller
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    A Thousand Pleasures
    46 %|Jan 1, 1968
    Horror
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    The Touch of Her Flesh
    49 %|Apr 19, 1967
    Horror, Thriller
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    Lusting Hours
    40 %|Jan 1, 1967
    Drama
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    Take Me Naked
    42 %|Oct 21, 1966
    Horror, Crime
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    The Sin Syndicate
    40 %|Jan 1, 1965
    Drama, Thriller, Crime
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    Body of a Female
    35 %|Nov 3, 1964
    Drama, Thriller, Horror

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