Michael Findlay

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For the West Indies cricketer, see Mike 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".^[1]

The Findlays are notable for having made the infamous Flesh trilogy, and for filming Slaughter, the 1971 film that, after further contributions from Allan Shackleton, became Snuff (1975), the namesake of the fictional snuff film genre. Michael Findlay is also the director of the 1974 Yeti slasher movie, Shriek of the Mutilated.

On May 16th, 1977 Michael Findlay was killed by decapitation in a helicopter accident on the roof of the Pan Am Building in New York City. The New York Airways helicopter Findlay and three other passengers were in the process of boarding tipped on its side while the rotors were still running. ^[2]

[edit] Notes

^ qtd. Williams , p. 328
^ Aircraft Accident Report - New York Airways, inc., Sikorsky S-61L, N619PA Pan Am Building Heliport, New York, New York May 16, 1977, National Transportation and Safety Board, October 13, 1977, <http://www.airdisaster.com/reports/ntsb/AAR77-09.pdf>. Retrieved on 30 May 2008

[edit] References

Williams, Linda (1999), Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible", Berkeley: University of California Press, ISBN 9780520219434 . Expanded ed.