Charles BandFilmography

Skull Heads

Crew: Director, Producer, Screen Story

Actors: Robin Sydney, Samantha Light, Steve Kramer, Rane Jameson, Kim Argetsinger

Synopsis: Cult horror producer-director Charles Band presents another round of his patented, low-budget weirdness with the campy horror flick Skull Heads. When an eccentric clan living in virtual isolation in an Italian castle finds their family togetherness threatened by the arrival of three mysterious Read More

Gingerdead Man 2: The Passion of the Crust

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: K-Von Moezzi, Kelsey Sanders, Joseph Porter, Frank Nicotero, Bruce Dent

Synopsis: The horror rises like baker's yeast in this sequel to the fully baked frightener about a murderous cookie man with a true taste for terror. After inheriting his father's fledgling film studio, ambitious young producer Kelvin Cheatam announces an outrageous slate of genre films that will have Read More

Dead Man's Hand: Casino of the Damned

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Robin Sydney, Scott Whyte, Kristyn Green, Kavan Reece, Diane Mizota

Decadent Evil II

Crew: Director, Producer

Dangerous Worry Dolls

Crew: Director, Producer

Petrified

Crew: Director

Evil Bong

Crew: Director, Producer, Screen Story

Actors: Tommy Chong

Decadent Evil

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: An evil vampire princess and her bloodsucking stripper sidekicks incur the wrath of a horny half human/half reptile hybrid and his evil spawn in genre stalwart Charles Band's sexy tale of terror. It's been a lifetime since Marvin and Morella were lovers, but Marvin has understandably held a hearty Read More

Doll Graveyard

Crew: Director, Producer, Screen Story

Actors: Jared Kusnitz, Gabrielle Lynn, Kristyn Green, Anna Alicia Brook

Synopsis: Schlock producer Charles Band is back in killer doll country once again with this tale of century-old possessed dolls out for revenge against crummy teenagers that wish their masters ill will. When young Guy Filbrook (Jared Kusnitz) moves into a new house with his family, little does he know what Read More

The Gingerdead Man

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Margaret Blye, Larry Cedar, Gary Busey

Synopsis: A deranged psychopath returns from the grave in the form of a delicious but deadly treat in B-movie specialist Charles Band's bloody tale of baked goods gone bad. When psychotic killer Millard Findlemeyer (Gary Busey) entered a small-town diner and rained a shower of lead upon the Leigh family Read More

Cinemaker [Video Series]

Actors: Charles Band

The Rotting Dead

Crew: Executive Producer

Puppet Master vs. Demonic Toys

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Corey Feldman, Vanessa Angel, Danielle Keaton, Silvia Suvadora, Nikolai Sotirov

Synopsis: This made-for-cable shocker was the evil alien spawn of two separate Full Moon film series, Puppet Master and The Demonic Toys. The grandson of original puppet master Andre Toulon, Robert Toulon (Corey Feldman) has inherited grandpa's secret formula whereby Robert and his daughter, Alexandra (Danielle Keaton Read More

Brides of the Dead

Crew: Executive Producer

Beyond Death

Crew: Executive Producer

Bleed

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Debbie Rochon, Danny Wolske

Synopsis: A naïve young girl desperate to fit in with her new boyfriend's tightly knit crew learns that membership may be deadly in this horror entry starring scream queen Debbie Rochon. Upon arriving at a party with her new boyfriend, Shawn (Danny Wolske), desperate-to-fit-in newcomer Debbie (Rochon) Read More

Deathbed

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tanya Dempsey, Brave Matthews, Meagan Mangum, Joe Estevez, Dukey Flyswatter

Synopsis: The psychological film Deathbed concerns a possessed bed that ruins the life of an illustrator. When Karen and her significant other move into a new apartment, they discover an antique bed. Karen adores it and it soon inspires her art. However, a series of disturbing dreams begin to haunt Karen. Read More

Trancers 6

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Zette Sullivan, Tim Thomerson

Synopsis: Jack Deth is back, and he's got a whole new look in this installment of the long-running Trancers saga. Traveling back in time to take over the body of his daughter Josephine, Deth must face off against a powerful new breed of Trancers if he has any hope of saving the future from a horrific fate Read More

Groom Lake

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: William Shatner, Dick Van Patten, Amy Acker, Duane Whitaker, Tom Towles

Synopsis: Former USS Enterprise captain William Shatner takes the helm as director and star of this sci-fi adventure following a young couple who travel to a small-town near the notorious Area-51 military base in search of extraterrestrial life. Deep in the heart of the Nevada desert, not far from Area-51 Read More

Demonicus

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Venesa Talor, Gregory Lee Kenyon

Synopsis: The demonic spirit of a crazed madman isn't about to let a little thing like being dead for 20 centuries get in the way of world conquest in this tale of terror. Gina (Venesa Talor) is a college professor leading a group of students on a hike through the mountains. The group happens upon a cave Read More

Stitches

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Debra Mayer

Synopsis: No one would have guessed that Mrs. Albright, the seemingly sweet, elderly proprietor of a New England boarding home, was actually a demon hiding beneath a facade of stitched-on human skin. Her mission, capturing boarders and imprisoning their souls within a book of paper dolls, seems impossible Read More

The Prison of the Dead

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: In this low-budget horror film, an arrogant young reprobate fakes his own funeral in order to lure friends to a remote location that once housed a prison. Note: The onscreen title for this film is The Prison of the Dead. Some promotional material lists the title as Prison of the Dead, while other Read More

Alien Arsenal

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Krisztian Kovacs, Josh Hammond, Chris Olivero, Michelle Nordin, Danielle Hoover, William Vogt

Synopsis: A pair of outcast teenagers find their lives changed when they come across a cache of alien weapons. By donning the extraterrestrial armor, they are transformed into mighty warriors; however, they also attract the attention of the original owners, who are not happy at having their ammo dump Read More

The Dead Hate the Living

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: A group of low-budget filmmakers find the plot of their horror movie coming true as they're besieged by the undead in this goofy, gory fright flick. David Poe (Eric Clawson), a first-time film director, breaks into an abandoned hospital with his cast and crew to film a cheap zombie picture. Read More

Witchouse

Crew: Executive Producer, Screen Story

Actors: Ashley McKinney, Ariauna Albright

Synopsis: Witchouse, a quickie horror film from Full Moon Pictures and director Jack Reed, concerns a young woman named Elizabeth LeFey (Ashley McKinney). She invites some of her old school friends to her creepy Dunwich, MA, home for a May Day haunted-house party. The first couple to arrive finds the house Read More

Blood Dolls

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A masked scientist creates a troop of vicious dolls to violently avenge betrayals committed against. him. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Freeway 2: Confessions of a Trickbaby

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Natasha Lyonne, Maria Celedonio, Vincent Gallo, David Alan Grier, Michael T. Weiss

Synopsis: Despite the efforts of her sleazy attorney, Mr. Butz (David Alan Grier), teen drug dealer/car thief Crystal (Natasha Lyonne) is sentenced to a 25-year prison term, the first segment of which will be served in a youth correctional facility where she will be treated for her rampant bulimia. There Read More

Frankenstein Reborn!

Crew: Executive Producer

Prisoners of the Dark Zone

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Synopsis: In this fantasy tale for the whole family, three children discover the home of an elderly clock builder holds an amazing secret -- he possesses a collection of clocks that control the past, present, and future of the entire world. When one of the children is mistakenly transported into the past Read More

Curse of the Puppet Master

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: George Peck, Emily Harrison, Josh Green, Robert Donavan, Michael Sollenberger

Synopsis: In this installment of the gory series, an innocent woodcarver finds himself possessed of the evil creator of the murderous animated puppets. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Hideous!

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Citriniti, Mel Johnson, Jr., Jacqueline Lovell, Tracie May

Synopsis: In this horror thriller, a wealthy collector of mutant human freaks finds himself in deep trouble when the owner of his latest acquisition decides he wants it back. But while the two men are battling it out over ownership, the creature himself musters his horrifying compatriots to get bloody Read More

Backlash: Oblivion 2

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Meg Foster, Maxwell Caulfield, George Takei, Julie Newmar, Isaac Hayes

Synopsis: On the wild desert planet of Oblivion, a man called Sweeny comes to search for a corporate saboteur. Though deceptively dressed as a greenhorn city dude, Sweeny is the most effective bounty hunter in the galaxy. He stays in the town where she (he knows nothing about her) is supposed to reside. He Read More

Castle Freak

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jeffrey Combs

Synopsis: An American family discovers the horrific mystery that lies within a spooky Italian castle in this low-budget horror film from cult director Stuart Gordon, best known for such works as Re-Animator and From Beyond. Castle Freak reunites Gordon with Re-Animator star Jeffrey Combs, who portrays John Read More

Trancers 5: Sudden Deth

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Tim Thomerson, Stacie Randall, Ty Miller, Terri Ivens, Mark Arnold

Synopsis: When the nefarious Lord Caliban and his wicked henchman start acting up again, its up to future cop Jack Deth and his intrepid Tunnel Rats to try to stop him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Shrunken Heads

Crew: Producer

Actors: Richard Elfman, Meg Foster, Julius Harris, Aeryk Egan, Becky Herbst

Synopsis: An enthusiastically brain-damaged outing from Charles Band's prolific B-Movie outfit Full Moon Entertainment, this cult-move manqué, directed by Oingo Boingo co-founder Richard Elfman (brother of composer Danny Elfman) is weird even by Full Moon's unique standards. The demented plot begins Read More

Lurking Fear

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: In this chilling horror movie, loosely based on a tale by H.P. Lovecraft, a group of people in an ancient church find themselves beleaguered by terrifying monsters. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Dark Angel: The Ascent

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: A beautiful devil-girl tires of torturing the souls of the damned and so busts out of hell to visit the mortal plane. Finding it nearly as debauched and wicked as her home, the girl decides to take care of the villainous and evil before they get down to the Devil's domain. Soon the blood begins Read More

Oblivion

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Richard Joseph Paul, Jackie Swanson, Andrew Divoff, Meg Foster, Jimmie F. Skaggs

Synopsis: What do you get when you combine a Western with a Science Fiction film? You might get this shoot'em up in space. It is set in the distant town of Oblivion (it was actually filmed in Romania). Though it's a high tech town, it has the feel of an old fashioned Western outpost from the 1800's. The Read More

Prehysteria

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: This family fantasy focuses on a widowed farmer and his kids who find some mysterious eggs which hatch to reveal a brood of baby dinosaurs. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Puppet Master 4

Crew: Producer

Actors: Gordon Currie, Chandra West, Jason Adams, Teresa Hill, Guy Rolfe

Synopsis: In this gory horror outing, the hellish little self-motivated puppets are back, but this time they working for good to prevent brain-fluid sucking demons from stealing their master's secret. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Mandroid

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Curt Lowens

Synopsis: When a super elixir (capable of either curing all diseases or being used as an all-powerful destructive weapon) is discovered in eastern Europe, a scientist (Curt Lowens) tries to hijack the formula. To prevent the elixir's safe return, he invents an android controlled by the use of thought-power Read More

Bloodstone: Subspecies 2

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Anders Hove, Kevin Spirtas, Ion Haiduc, Melanie Shatner

Synopsis: Charles Band's Full Moon Productions followed up their vampire hit Subspecies by returning to Romania for two sequels. This second entry begins with the revival of master vampire Radu (Anders Hove) by his legions of homunculi (the "subspecies" of the title, neat stop-motion beasties who only Read More

Dollman vs. Demonic Toys

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Tracy Scoggins, Tim Thomerson

Synopsis: Full Moon Entertainment -- Charles Band's direct-to-video outfit -- tosses together elements from three of its film franchises for this loopy mix & match item. Tracy Scoggins returns as tough cop Judith Grey, who must confront the lethal, wise-cracking terror toys again when they reappear at the Read More

Remote

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: This lively children's comedy centers upon a 13-year-old electronic whiz with a knack for building clever remote control gadgets. Young Randy gets into big trouble after one of his inventions destroys his buddy's science project. Afterward, his parents attempt to get him to find other interests. Read More

Robot Wars

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: In this follow-up to its predecessor Robot Jox, Robot Wars again involves a bleak post-Armageddon world where the survivors settle their differences in mammoth robot fights. Here a couple of desperates resurrect the world's last "good-guy" robot which they use to save all humanity. ~ All Movie Read More

Bad Channels

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Martha Quinn

Synopsis: Paull Hipp plays "Dangerous" Dan O'Dare an entertaining radio host who gets locked up in the station's control room when an alien being takes over the broadcast. The being starts mesmerizing attractive female listeners with jivy tunes and then uses some sort of transmission contraption to shrink Read More

Doctor Mordrid

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Jeffrey Combs, Yvette Nipar, Jay Acovone, Brian Thompson, Keith Coulouris

Synopsis: Doctor Mordrid (Jeffrey Combs) is an interdimensional sorcerer whose earth cover consists of acting as a super for a Manhattan apartment building. He gets word from his contact that a rival sorcerer, Kabal (Brian Thompson), has escaped and is coming to earth to take over the planet. Framed by Read More

Invisible

Crew: Producer

Trancers III: Deth Lives

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: This third entry in the sci-fi Trancers series involves a futuristic L.A. cop/detective who time-travels to battle more Trancers from a 23rd-century totalitarian government that maintains control by injecting victims with trance-inducing drugs, causing them to become virtual puppets. ~ Kristie Read More

Puppet Master 2

Crew: Producer

Actors: Elizabeth MacLellan, Collin Bernsen, Charlie Spradling, Greg Webb, Jeff Weston

Synopsis: The supernaturally animated demonic puppet creations of a mad puppeteer spring back to life in hopes of reanimating their master with an ancient Egyptian formula that utilizes brain serum in this gory horror thriller. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Puppet Master 3: Toulon's Revenge

Crew: Producer, Screen Story

Actors: Guy Rolfe, Sarah Douglas, Richard Lynch, Ian Abercrombie, Walter Gotell

Synopsis: This entry in the horror thriller series shows how the mad French puppeteer Toulon created his supernaturally animated demonic marionettes. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Trancers II: The Return of Jack Deth

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Tim Thomerson, Helen Hunt, Megan Ward, Biff Manard, Martine Beswicke

Synopsis: Once again someone from the future has come back to create an army of Trancers, human zombies who do what they're told without question or pause. Now officer Jack Deth, a cop from the future stranded in the past, must once again go forth to stop them. This sci-fi action sequel chronicles his Read More

Demonic Toys

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tracy Scoggins

Synopsis: An early, derivative effort from Charles Band's incredibly prolific direct-to-video outfit Full Moon Productions, this is an undercooked stew of a dozen horror plots, particularly Child's Play and Night of the Living Dead. A tough lady-cop (Tracy Scoggins) is forced to curtail her task of Read More

Dollman

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tim Thomerson

Synopsis: Intergalactic super-cop Brick Bardo (Tim Thomerson) crash-lands in the Bronx while on a cosmic head hunt, only to find himself just over a foot tall in our world. Bardo spends time bringing street gangs to justice while pursuing his original quarry. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Netherworld

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Michael C. Bendetti, Denise Gentile, Anjanette Comer, Holly Floria, Robert Burr

Synopsis: One of the early direct-to-video horror films from Charles Band's Full Moon Entertainment, this good-looking entry stars 21 Jump Street's Michael Benedetti as Corey Thornton, who inherits a mansion in the Louisiana bayou from his late father. Corey wonders why his father, who abandoned him, would Read More

The Pit and the Pendulum

Crew: Producer

Actors: Lance Henriksen, Rona de Ricci, Jonathan Fuller, Jeffrey Combs, Tom Towles

Synopsis: Only loosely based on Edgar Allen Poe's classic short story, this well-rendered and intelligent horror film was filmed on location in a spooky Italian castle and tells the convoluted story of a mad priest who devises exquisitely painful ways of getting his victims to confess to dabbling in Read More

Shock Cinema, Vol. 1

Actors: Brinke Stevens

Synopsis: Actress Brinke Stevens hosts this compilation of interviews with 11 low-budget filmmakers, mostly in the horror genre. Among the directors profiled are Jeff Burr, Fred Olen Ray, Charles Band, Scott Spiegel, J.R. Bookwalter and David DeCoteau (who also happens to be this film's executive producer). Read More

Subspecies

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: A disparate pair of vampiric brothers tussle for the possession of their father's powerful bloodstone in this violent horror outing that was shot on location in Transylvania. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Robot Jox

Crew: Producer

Actors: Gary Graham, Anne-Marie Johnson, Paul Koslo, Robert Sampson, Danny Kamekona

Synopsis: Sometime far into the future international powers settle their differences in gigantic arenas where each nation sponsors an incredible robot gladiator. These gladiators duke it out to determine the distribution of world territories. This might be best appreciated by pre-teen video warfare fans. Read More

Shadowzone

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: In this sci-fi film, researchers at an underground NASA research station are studying the effect of long periods of deep sleep on human beings. However, when the study participants begin dying, military man Captain Hickock (David Beecroft) is sent in to discover the cause. Once there, he discovers Read More

Meridian

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Sherilyn Fenn

Synopsis: Sherilynn Fenn heads the cast of Full Moon Productions' Kiss of the Beast. Fenn plays an art student who inherits a mysterious, accursed Italian castle. Before long, a troupe of Felliniesque circus performers take shelter in the drafty old manse. Assuming that Fenn is there against her will, a few Read More

Crash and Burn

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Paul Ganus, Megan Ward, Bill Moseley, Eva La Rue, Jack McGee

Synopsis: Set in the year 2030, the film concerns a rebel movement led by Lathan Hooks (Ralph Waite), who is dedicated to the riddance of the conservative corporate machine which rules America. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Buy and Cell

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Robert Carradine, Michael Winslow, Lise Cutter, Malcolm McDowell, Ben Vereen

Synopsis: After he is framed by his senior partner and sent to jail, Herbie Altman Robert Carradine sets up a lucrative investment company "Con Inc." with the assistance of the other convicts, sympathetic guards, and a well-intentioned prison reformer Lise Cutter. Lame, predictable story which wastes a Read More

Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Shannon Tweed, Adrienne Barbeau, Bill Maher, Karen Mistal, Brett Stimely

Synopsis: Buxom Playboy foldout Shannon Tweed plays a sexy college professor assigned to investigate a sudden, disastrous avocado shortage; her predecessor, a Dr. Kurtz (Adrienne Barbeau) has never returned from the dreaded California Avocado Jungle. Accompanied by air-headed assistant Karen Mistal and Read More

Puppetmaster

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Paul Le Mat, Irene Miracle, Matt Roe, Robin Frates

Synopsis: In this tense horror outing Toulon, a puppet maker, discovers an ancient Egyptian potion and uses it to bring his creations to life. Unfortunately, he is a rather twisted fellow and his puppets become murderous little demons who escape. Distraught, the master takes his life. Years later, psychics Read More

Ghost Town

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Franc Luz, Catherine Hickland, Jimmie F. Skaggs, Penelope Windust, Bruce Glover

Synopsis: This interesting fusion of the horror and Western genres involves a modern-day sheriff (Franc Luz) whose search for a missing heiress leads him into the title locale, a frontier-age Arizona township whose residents are cursed with immortality. He eventually discovers that the abductee (Catherine Hickland Read More

Prison

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Lane Smith, Viggo Mortensen, Chelsea Field, Andre de Shields, Lincoln Kilpatrick

Synopsis: Prison guard Ethan Sharpe (Lane Smith) watched as Burke (Viggo Mortensen) dies in the electric chair in 1964. Over two decades later, Sharpe is the warden, and Burke returns from the dead to exact revenge on the wicked warden when the prison re-opens. Two victims drip blood while dangling in Read More

Catacombs

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Timothy Van Patten, Laura Schaefer, Jeremy West, Ian Abercrombie

Synopsis: Despite the tendency of the Curse films to bear absolutely no relation to each other, this is perhaps the only film in that series to involve an actual curse. It's also one of the better installments. The curse in question is leveled upon the 16th-century monks of San Pietro by a Read More

Arena

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Marc Alaimo, Claudia Christian

Synopsis: Though bereft of budget, the 1988 sci-fier Arena has its heart in the right place. The scene is a distant planet, where extraterrestrial gladiators square off in an arena. Earthling Steve Armstrong would like to prove his fighting skills, but the evil planetary ruler Marc Alaimo won't let him. Read More

Pulsepounders

Crew: Director

Deadly Weapon

Crew: Producer

Actors: Rodney Eastman, Kim Walker, Gary Frank, Michael Horse, Gary Kroeger

Synopsis: An impoverished adolescent outcast becomes a deadly, vengeful killer against his tormentors after he finds a super-secret anti-matter gun lying in an Arizona stream bed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Enemy Territory

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Gary Frank, Ray Parker, Jr., Jan-Michael Vincent, Frances Foster, Tony Todd

Synopsis: In this violent crime drama, the residents of a New York City housing project live in fear of The Vampires, the brutal gang that continually terrorizes them. Things change after an insurance agent and a telephone repairman end up trapped there. Perhaps things would not be so desperate had the Read More

Dolls

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Ian Williams, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, Carrie Lorraine, Guy Rolfe, Hilary Mason

Synopsis: Young Judy Bower (Carrie Lorraine) is spending the summer with her stupid, abusive father, David (Ian Williams), and nasty stepmother, Rosemary (Carolyn Purdy-Gordon). On a dark and stormy night, their car breaks down on a lonely road in the woods and they are forced to seek shelter. As they walk Read More

Ghoulies 2

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Damon Martin, Royal Dano, Phil Fondacaro, J. Downing, Kerry Remsen

Synopsis: This pedantic sequel to Empire Pictures' less-than-original Ghoulies was released directly to video and summarily slipped into oblivion. At the outset of this one, the title creatures -- rubbery puppets originally conceived as cut-rate Gremlins lookalikes -- are shanghaied by a priest who intends Read More

The Caller

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Madolyn Smith

Synopsis: Malcolm McDowell and Madolyn Smith star in this unusual science fiction thriller. A young woman alone in a remote cabin expects friends for dinner, but instead a man who has car trouble knocks at her door and asks her help in calling for a tow truck. She sees him the next day in the village and Read More

From Beyond

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Ted Sorel, Ken Foree

Synopsis: The production team responsible for the twisted cult classic Re-Animator -- including director Stuart Gordon and producer Brian Yuzna -- returned the following year with this equally depraved (perhaps more so) follow-up, based once again (and very loosely) on the pulp-horror fiction of H.P. Lovecraft Read More

Terrorvision

Crew: Producer

Actors: Diane Franklin, Gerritt Graham, Mary Woronov, Chad Allen, Jonathan Gries

Synopsis: The hokey TerrorVision is more an unintentional model of how horror films were made in the early '50s than a trend-setting story about the TV monster who ate them all. When Stanley (Gerrit Graham) goes outside to adjust his family's satellite dish, a living, organic alien Read More

The Eliminators

Crew: Producer

Actors: Andrew Prine, Denise Crosby, Patrick Reynolds, Conan Lee, Roy Dotrice

Synopsis: A touch of comic relief adds to this otherwise predictable sci-fi actioner about a mad scientist (Roy Dotrice) holed up in a remote jungle fortress in Mexico with his time-machine and robotic know-how. He plans on zapping himself back to the Roman Empire to reign as emperor in Caesar's stead Read More

Troll

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Noah Hathaway, Michael Moriarty, Shelley Hack, Jenny Beck, Sonny Bono, June Lockhart

Synopsis: When a family moves into a San Francisco apartment, an opportunistic troll decides to make his move and take possession of little Wendy (Jenny Beck), thereby paving the way for new troll recruits, the first in his army that will take eventual control of the planet. As luck would have it, the Read More

Ghost Warrior

Crew: Producer

Actors: Hiroshi Fujioka, Janet Julian

Synopsis: This inventive low-budget action-fantasy from producer Charles Band was released briefly as Swordkill before undergoing a title change for home video. Basically a samurai variant on Iceman, the story involves the discovery of 400-year-old Japanese warrior Yoshimita (Hiroshi Fujioka) encased in Read More

Trancers

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Tim Thomerson, Helen Hunt, Michael Stefani, Art La Fleur, Biff Manard

Synopsis: With the whimsical tagline "Jack Deth is back and he's never been here before," director Charles Band melds Blade Runner, The Terminator, and Jingle All the Way for this low-budget science fiction adventure. The story takes place in Angel City in the year 2247, when enforcer Jack Deth (Tim Thomerson Read More

The Dungeonmaster

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Jeffrey Byron, Richard Moll, Leslie Wing, Blackie Lawless, Danny Dick

Synopsis: First shot in 1983 but not released until 1985, this low-budget, amateur fantasy is about Paul Bradford (Jeffrey Byron), a computer whiz who takes on the forces of evil in the guise of Heavy Metal (Blackie Lawless), the leader of an eponymous L.A. band, and Mestema (Richard Moll) the black Read More

Zone Troopers

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tim Thomerson, Timothy Van Patten, Art La Fleur, Biff Manard, William Paulson

Synopsis: This off-beat story combines elements of a science fiction adventure and World War II drama. A platoon of U.S. soldiers are surrounded by the enemy in Italy and are forced to fight their way back behind the lines to their troops. The platoon is populated by the usual characters: "Sarge" (Tim Thomerson Read More

Ghoulies

Crew: Producer

Actors: Peter Liapis, Lisa Pelikan, Michael Des Barres, Jack Nance, Peter Risch

Synopsis: Joe Dante's box-office fantasy Gremlins had barely left American cinemas before Charles Band's B-movie factory, Empire Pictures, rushed out this cheap knockoff. While Dante's film benefited from the director's wry sense of humor and the high-concept clout of executive producer Steven Spielberg, Band Read More

Swordkill

Crew: Producer

Actors: Hiroshi Fujioka, John Calvin, Janet Julian, Frank Schuller, Bill Morey

Synopsis: In this funny Japanese adventure, the great 16th-century samurai warrior Yoshimitsa ends up frozen in a glacial crevasse while looking for the villains who abducted his wife. Four hundred years later his remains are discovered by skiers and sent to LA to be studied. Miraculously, the warrior Read More

Metalstorm - the Destruction of Jared-Syn

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Jeffrey Byron, Tim Thomerson, Kelly Preston, Richard Moll

Synopsis: Metalstorm was a courageous if unsuccessful attempt to renew the 3-D craze of the 1950s. Jeffrey Byron heads the cast as space ranger Dogen, who is bound and determined to stem the activities of integallactic looney-tune Jared-Syn (Mike Preston). We then segue into a plotline that is more Western Read More

The Alchemist

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Ginty, Lucinda Dooling, John Sanderford, Viola Kates Stimpson, Robert Glaudini

Synopsis: "B"-movie legend Charles Band cranked out this deadly-dull black magic flick through his then-fledgling Empire Pictures company in 1980, though the film never saw widespread American distribution until its video release five years later. The main character is an ageless glassmaker (Robert Ginty) Read More

Parasite

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Robert Glaudini, Demi Moore, Luca Bercovici, James Davidson, Al Fann

Synopsis: In this gory sci-fi outing, shot and originally released in 3-D, Dr. Paul Dean (Robert Glaudini) is a scientist living in the near future, after America has fallen under the control of a repressive paramilitary regime. Dean's research causes him to absorb an especially voracious parasitic worm Read More

The Day Time Ended

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jim Davis, Christopher Mitchum, Dorothy Malone, Marcy Lafferty, Scott Kolden

Synopsis: In this bargain basement sci-fi film Time Warp-The Day Time Ended, a family moves into their state-of-the-art solar-powered home in an isolated part of the desert to start a new peaceful life. Meanwhile, far away in deep space, three stars simultaneously explode, sending disruptive, time-bending Read More

Tourist Trap

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Chuck Connors, Jon Van Ness, Jocelyn Jones, Robin Sherwood, Tanya Roberts

Synopsis: In this horror outing, a seemingly abandoned desert gas station turns out to be a grotesque museum filled with murderous mannequins who come to life when visitors come to call. The ill-fated "guests" are lured in by a strange siren's song. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Fairy Tales

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: In this bawdy musical, a prince is pressured to procreate in order to keep his kingdom going. Unfortunately, he is a picky fellow and refuses to do his royal duty with anyone but the exquisite, enigmatic "Princess Beauty," whose picture hangs in the royal hall. He enlists the aid of a learned Read More

Laserblast

Crew: Producer

Actors: Kim Milford, Gianni Russo, Ron Masak, Dennis Burkley

Synopsis: Billy (Kim Milford) has the same problems that many teens have to endure. His mother is inattentive, local cops target him for speeding tickets, his girlfriend's grandfather hates him, and teenaged bullies make fun of his van. Billy finds the keys to his emancipation in the desert, when he Read More

The End of the World

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Dr. Andrew Boran (Kirk Scott) is picking up strange signals from outer space that seem to predict natural disasters. When he and his wife (Sue Lyon) decide to investigate, they find themselves held captive in a convent that's been infiltrated by aliens with plans to destroy the world. As alien Read More

Crash!

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: In this horror move, a husband sends a demonic antique car after his wife. She uses her own black magic to fight back. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Mansion of the Doomed

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: A mad surgeon finds himself up to his armpits in eyeballs after guilt prompts him to begin removing the eyes of abducted people in hopes of performing transplants on his daughter Nancy who lost her own in a traffic accident he caused. The real horror begins when the people he disfigured rise up Read More

Last Foxtrot In Burbank

Crew: Director