
Charles Band
Highest Rated: 94% Re-Animator (1985)
Lowest Rated: 10% TerrorVision (1986)
Birthday: Dec 27, 1951
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA
A pioneer in the field of home video, Band has built a reputation as a prolific and fairly reliable producer and frequent director of entertaining low-budget genre films. Beginning in 1973 with the erotic comedy "Last Foxtrot in Burbank" (featuring Sally Marr, mother of celebrated comic Lenny Bruce), Band has produced a string of features variously delving into the realms of horror, sci-fi and fantasy. Many of these were met with mainstream critical disdain and spotty regional releases. Detecting a potential gold mine in the explosion of the direct-to-video market and the omnipresent programming demands of cable in the late 1980s, Band formed Full Moon Entertainment, a marketing and production entity designed to release modestly budgeted "brand-name" fantasy movies directly to video stores without theatrical release. (Paramount Pictures handled the video distribution.)
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tales of the Fantastic | Producer | - | 2023 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Critters, Carnivores and Creatures |
Director, Producer, Executive Producer |
- | 2023 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Piranha Women | Producer | - | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Beyond the Resonator | Producer | - | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Baby Oopsie 3: Burn Baby Burn! | Producer | - | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Evil Bong 888: Infinity High |
Director, Producer |
- | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Attack of the 50 Foot CamGirl | Producer | - | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dragon Tales | Executive Producer | - | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Baby Oopsie 2: Murder Dolls | Executive Producer | - | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Giantess Battle Attack! | Producer | - | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Resonator: Miskatonic U | Producer | - | 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Seduction of Rose Parrish |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | It Knows You're Alone | Executive Producer | - | 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Baby Oopsie | Producer | - | 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Betty Danger: Vice Cop |
Producer, Executive Producer |
- | 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Don't Let Her In |
Producer, Executive Producer |
- | 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Gingerweed Man |
Producer, Executive Producer |
- | 2021 |
No Score Yet | 22% | Castle Freak | Executive Producer | - | 2020 |
No Score Yet | 40% | Barbie & Kendra Save the Tiger King |
Director, Producer |
- | 2020 |
No Score Yet | 20% | Corona Zombies | Director | - | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Blade: The Iron Cross | Producer | - | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bunker of Blood 8 Butcher's Bake Off: Hell's Kitchen | Director | - | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Necropolis: Legion | Executive Producer | - | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Weedjies: Halloweed Night | Producer | - | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bunker of Blood 6 Zombie Lust: Night Flesh | Director | - | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bunker of Blood 2 Deadly Dolls: Deepest Cuts |
Director, Producer |
- | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Puppet Master: Blitzkrieg Massacre |
Director, Producer |
- | 2018 |
70% | 52% | Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich | Executive Producer | - | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Evil Bong 777 |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 2018 |
No Score Yet | 31% | Puppet Master: Axis Termination |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 2017 |
No Score Yet | 29% | Evil Bong 666 |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Videozone: The Making of Hideous! | Director | - | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ravenwolf Towers | Director | - | 2016 |
No Score Yet | 20% | Killjoy's Psycho Circus | Producer | - | 2016 |
No Score Yet | 0% | Evil Bong: High 5 |
Director, Producer |
- | 2016 |
No Score Yet | 17% | Evil Bong 420 | Director | - | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trophy Heads |
Director, Producer |
- | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Badass Motha F...kas! | Director | - | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Blood of 1000 Virgins | Director | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Nazithon: Decadence and Destruction | Director | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet | 0% | Unlucky Charms | Director | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet | 20% | Gingerdead Man Vs. Evil Bong |
Director, Producer |
- | 2013 |
No Score Yet | 19% | Ooga Booga | Director | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet | 3% | The Dead Want Women |
Director, Screenwriter, Executive Producer |
- | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Haunted Dollhouse | Unknown (Character) | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet | 15% | Reel Evil | Producer | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet | 25% | Puppet Master X: Axis Rising |
Director, Producer |
- | 2012 |
No Score Yet | 43% | Killjoy Goes to Hell | Producer | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Devil Dolls | Director | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet | 15% | Evil Bong 3: The Wrath of Bong! | Director | - | 2011 |
No Score Yet | 16% | Gingerdead Man 3: Saturday Night Cleaver | Executive Producer | - | 2011 |
No Score Yet | 19% | Killer Eye: Halloween Haunt | Director | - | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Demonic Toys: Personal Demons | Producer | - | 2010 |
No Score Yet | 4% | Skull Heads | Director | - | 2009 |
No Score Yet | 25% | Evil Bong 2: King Bong |
Director, Producer |
- | 2009 |
No Score Yet | 21% | Dangerous Worry Dolls | Director | - | 2008 |
No Score Yet | 21% | Gingerdead Man 2: Passion of the Crust | Executive Producer | - | 2008 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Erotic Secrets |
Director, Producer |
- | 2007 |
No Score Yet | 23% | Dead Man's Hand |
Director, Producer |
- | 2007 |
No Score Yet | 36% | Petrified |
Director, Producer |
- | 2006 |
No Score Yet | 38% | Evil Bong | Director | - | 2006 |
No Score Yet | 28% | The Gingerdead Man | Director | - | 2005 |
No Score Yet | 17% | Doll Graveyard |
Director, Producer |
- | 2005 |
No Score Yet | 18% | Decadent Evil | Director | - | 2005 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Frankenstein and the Werewolf Reborn! | Executive Producer | - | 2005 |
No Score Yet | 29% | Dr Moreau's House of Pain | Director | - | 2004 |
No Score Yet | 27% | Puppet Master vs. Demonic Toys |
Screenwriter, Executive Producer |
- | 2004 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mega Scorpions | Executive Producer | - | 2003 |
No Score Yet | 21% | Puppet Master: The Legacy | Director | - | 2003 |
No Score Yet | 20% | Birth Rite | Executive Producer | - | 2003 |
No Score Yet | 14% | Jigsaw | Executive Producer | - | 2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cryptz | Executive Producer | - | 2002 |
No Score Yet | 24% | Killjoy 2: Deliverance From Evil | Producer | - | 2002 |
No Score Yet | 13% | Bleed | Executive Producer | - | 2002 |
No Score Yet | 9% | Deathbed | Executive Producer | - | 2002 |
No Score Yet | 25% | Dead & Rotting | Executive Producer | - | 2002 |
No Score Yet | 10% | Trancers 6 | Executive Producer | - | 2002 |
No Score Yet | 20% | Stitches | Executive Producer | - | 2001 |
No Score Yet | 28% | The Brotherhood 2: Young Warlocks | Executive Producer | - | 2001 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Vengeance of the Dead | Executive Producer | - | 2001 |
No Score Yet | 11% | Demonicus | Executive Producer | - | 2001 |
No Score Yet | 26% | Prison of the Dead | Executive Producer | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | 15% | Sideshow | Executive Producer | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | 23% | The Brotherhood | Executive Producer | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | 28% | Voodoo Academy | Executive Producer | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | 27% | Killjoy | Executive Producer | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | 12% | Witchouse 2: Blood Coven | Executive Producer | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | 47% | The St. Francisville Experiment | Executive Producer | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Horrific |
Screenwriter, Executive Producer |
- | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mistress Club | Executive Producer | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Boy With the X-Ray Eyes | Executive Producer | - | 1999 |
36% | 64% | Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby | Executive Producer | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet | 18% | Retro-Puppetmaster |
Screenwriter, Executive Producer |
- | 1999 |
No Score Yet | 47% | Ragdoll | Executive Producer | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet | 47% | Blood Dolls | Director | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Veronica 2030 | Executive Producer | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Werewolf Reborn | Executive Producer | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet | 30% | Kraa! The Sea Monster | Executive Producer | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet | 12% | Clockmaker | Executive Producer | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet | 0% | Mystery Monsters |
Director, Executive Producer |
- | 1997 |
No Score Yet | 40% | Hideous! |
Director, Producer |
- | 1997 |
No Score Yet | 46% | Vampire Journals | Executive Producer | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet | 17% | The Creeps |
Director, Producer |
- | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Videozone: The Making of "The Creeps" | Director | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet | 43% | Magic in the Mirror | Executive Producer | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet | 40% | Johnny Mysto Boy Wizard | Producer | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet | 71% | Josh Kirby... Time Warrior! Journey to the Magic Cavern | Executive Producer | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet | 33% | Head of the Family |
Director, Producer |
- | 1996 |
No Score Yet | 50% | Spellbreaker: Secret of the Leprechauns | Executive Producer | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet | 73% | Josh Kirby... Time Warrior! The Human Pets | Executive Producer | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet | 70% | Josh Kirby... Time Warrior! Planet of the Dino-Knights | Executive Producer | - | 1995 |
57% | 44% | Castle Freak | Executive Producer | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet | 61% | Pet Shop | Executive Producer | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet | 50% | Beanstalk |
Producer, Executive Producer |
- | 1994 |
No Score Yet | 29% | Prehysteria 2 | Executive Producer | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet | 33% | Puppet Master 5 | Producer | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet | 33% | Shrunken Heads | Producer | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet | 39% | Remote | Executive Producer | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet | 40% | Prehysteria | Director | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet | 41% | Bloodlust: Subspecies III | Executive Producer | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet | 8% | Mandroid | Executive Producer | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet | 23% | Dollman vs. the Demonic Toys |
Director, Producer |
- | 1993 |
No Score Yet | 32% | Puppet Master 4 | Producer | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet | 27% | Robot Wars | Producer | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet | 35% | Doctor Mordrid | Director | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | 29% | Demonic Toys | Executive Producer | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | 24% | Trancers II |
Director, Writer |
- | 1991 |
No Score Yet | 52% | Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge | Executive Producer | - | 1991 |
83% | 52% | Subspecies | Executive Producer | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet | 12% | Netherworld | Executive Producer | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Videozone: The Making of "Puppet Master III" |
Unknown (Character), Director |
- | 1991 |
No Score Yet | 22% | Crash and Burn | Director | - | 1990 |
40% | 42% | Robot Jox | Executive Producer | $995.8K | 1990 |
No Score Yet | 27% | Kiss of the Beast |
Director, Producer |
- | 1989 |
43% | 40% | Puppet Master | Executive Producer | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet | 4% | Curse IV: The Ultimate Sacrifice | Executive Producer | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet | 29% | Transformations | Executive Producer | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Evil Clergyman | Director | - | 1988 |
40% | 34% | Prison | Executive Producer | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet | 12% | Mutant Hunt | Executive Producer | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet | 37% | Slave Girls From Beyond Infinity | Executive Producer | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet | 17% | Robot Holocaust | Executive Producer | - | 1986 |
10% | 43% | TerrorVision | Executive Producer | - | 1986 |
80% | 70% | From Beyond | Executive Producer | $946.8K | 1986 |
No Score Yet | 27% | The Alchemist | Director | - | 1985 |
94% | 82% | Re-Animator | Producer | $2.0M | 1985 |
No Score Yet | 16% | Ragewar |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1984 |
No Score Yet | 17% | Ghost Warrior | Producer | - | 1984 |
88% | 53% | Trancers | Director | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet | 22% | Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn |
Director, Producer |
- | 1983 |
15% | 16% | Parasite | Director | - | 1982 |
40% | 47% | Tourist Trap | Executive Producer | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cinderella | Producer | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | 11% | End of the World | Producer | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | 12% | Crash |
Director, Producer |
- | 1976 |
No Score Yet | 30% | Mansion of the Doomed | Producer | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Last Foxtrot in Burbank |
Director, Producer |
- | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Avenger | Unknown (Character) | - | 1962 |
TV
Credit | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Elvira's 10 Nights of Halloween |
Executive Producer, Producer, Director |
2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | William Shatner's Full Moon Fright Night | Director | 2002 |