Michael Findlay

Known for DirectingBorn 1937-08-27Died 1977-05-16New 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 WikipediaRead more

Movies & web series

Point Me Toward Tomorrow

Virgins in Heat

Michael, Angelo and David

Kiss Today Goodbye

Christopher Street Blues

The Curse of Her Flesh

The Altar of Lust

The Kiss of Her Flesh

The Slaughter

Bacchanale

The Touch of Her Flesh

The Ultimate Degenerate

A Thousand Pleasures

Vice Versa!

Shriek of the Mutilated

Janie

The Sin Syndicate

Take Me Naked

Satan's Bed

Body of a Female

Take My Head

Lusting Hours

Invasion of the Blood Farmers

Snuff

Mnasidika

Party Levitation

Wet and Wild