Charles Band

Born: 1951-12-27 in Los Angeles, California, USA

Known For: Production

Biography

Charles Robert Band (born December 27, 1951) is an American actor, screenwriter, director and film producer. Starting in the seventies, Band formed Charles Band Productions. Since then, Full Moon has been an independent company, producing and distributing solely for the home market. Notable side companies have included Moonbeam Entertainment, Filmonsters, Action Xtreme and Pulsepounders all of which produced films aimed at kids and tweens as well as Torchlight Entertainment and Surrender Cinema which produced soft core films for the adult market. In addition, Monster Island Entertainment produced man in a rubber suit monster movies, Alchemy Entertainment later Big City Pictures created urban horror, and Pulp Fantasy Productions specialized in non Full Moon type horror. For a short time in the early 2000s, Full Moon became Shadow Entertainment when Band felt the company's product had strayed too far from the brand that he had created. During this time, many of the films were produced by J. R. Bookwalter's Tempe Entertainment. Since 2004, Band has taken a more active hand in the company, producing and directing almost every film released. Also in 2004, the Wizard Video line was reintroduced. For a short time, fans could buy a line of toys based on characters from the films such as Shrieker, Radu from Subspecies and the Puppet Master puppets as well. Branded Full Moon Toys, this line lasted a couple of years. More recently, the Monster Bra line has been created, specializing in gag brassieres. CD soundtracks have also been released through the Full Moon Records line including many works by Band's brother Richard Band and comics based on Dollman, Puppet Master, Subspecies and Trancers were released through Eternity Comics.

Filmography

2026

Dungeons of Ecstasy ... (Director)
Models vs. Werewolves ... (Producer)

2025

Prompt ... (Director)
City of Demons ... (Producer)
Evil Bong-A-Thon! ... (Director)
Game of Hearts ... (Executive Producer)
Cutter's Club ... (Producer)
Gingerdead Man: Murder-Thon ... (Producer)
The Devil Inside Her ... (Producer)
Trancers: The Whole Dethly Affair ... (Executive Producer)

2021

The Gingerweed Man ... (Producer)
Baby Oopsie ... (Producer)
Cassex ... (Executive Producer)
Hot Wives, Inc ... (Executive Producer)
Betty Danger: Vice Cop ... (Executive Producer)
The Girls of Excelsior Elite ... (Executive Producer)
The Resonator: Miskatonic U ... (Producer)
It Knows You're Alone ... (Executive Producer)
Seduced By Fame ... (Executive Producer)
Scream of the Blind Dead ... (Executive Producer)
The Seduction of Rose Parrish ... (Director)
The Gingerweed Man: Chapter Two ... (Producer)
Don't Let Her In ... (Producer)
Videozone 2021: Baby Oopsie as Self

2020

Castle Freak ... (Executive Producer)
Hotties Hideout ... (Executive Producer)
Femalien: Cosmic Crush ... (Executive Producer)
Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business as Self
Corona Zombies ... (Producer)
Blade: The Iron Cross ... (Producer)
Barbie & Kendra Save the Tiger King ... (Director)
Bikini Apocalypse ... (Executive Producer)
Hot Times at the Lost Oasis ... (Executive Producer)
Barbie & Kendra Storm Area 51 ... (Producer)
Dirty Angels 4: Object of Obsession ... (Producer)
Full Exposure ... (Executive Producer)
Empire of the Full Moon ... (Producer)

2019

The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs as Self
Private Places ... (Executive Producer)
The Exotic Adventures of Jack and Jill ... (Executive Producer)
Dirty Angels 2: Get Wet ... (Executive Producer)
Passions of the Lost Idol 2 ... (Executive Producer)
Zombie Lust: Night Flesh ... (Producer)
Butcher's Bake Off: Hell's Kitchen ... (Director)
Sins of a Glamour Girl ... (Executive Producer)
Indecent Affairs of a Housewife ... (Executive Producer)
Weedjies! Halloweed Night ... (Idea)
Passions of the Lost Idol ... (Executive Producer)
Giantess Attack vs. Mecha Fembot ... (Producer)
Necropolis: Legion ... (Executive Producer)
Dirty Angels 3: Model Behavior ... (Producer)
Deadly Ten: Meet the Directors as Himself

2018

Sex School: Student Bodies ... (Executive Producer)
Sex School: Lessons of Lust ... (Executive Producer)
Real Naughty Housewives 2 ... (Executive Producer)
Strippers Exposed ... (Executive Producer)
Evil Bong 777 ... (Director)
Sex School: Final Exams ... (Executive Producer)
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich ... (Executive Producer)
Company Girls ... (Executive Producer)
Bad Girls at Play ... (Executive Producer)
Sex School: Dorms of Desire ... (Executive Producer)
Wild Wet Resort Girls ... (Executive Producer)
Deadtime Tales 2 ... (Producer)
Psycho Sideshow: Demon Freaks ... (Producer)
Dirty Angels: Welcome to Lust Angeles ... (Executive Producer)
Bunker of Blood Chapter 3: Death Heads: Brain Drain ... (Producer)
Puppet Master: Blitzkrieg Massacre ... (Producer)
Sex School: Teachers Pet ... (Executive Producer)
Real Naughty Vice Girls ... (Executive Producer)
Real Naughty Vice Girls 2 ... (Executive Producer)
Deadtime Tales ... (Producer)
Vampire Slaughter: Eaten Alive ... (Producer)
Puppet Master: Blitzkrieg Massacre ... (Director)
Raid on Passion Planet ... (Executive Producer)
Real Naughty Virtual Virgins ... (Executive Producer)
Game On... Clothes Off ... (Executive Producer)
Deadly Dolls: Deepest Cuts ... (Director)
Girl Talk Confidential ... (Executive Producer)
Backstage Raw ... (Executive Producer)
Bunker of Blood Chapter 2: Deadly Dolls ... (Director)

2017

Evil Bong 666 ... (Original Story)
Real Naughty Housewives ... (Executive Producer)
Virgin Hunters 3: Agents of Passion ... (Executive Producer)
Puppet Master: Axis Termination ... (Producer)
T&A Time Travelers ... (Producer)
Femaliens: Seduction of the Species ... (Producer)
Fists of Fury ... (Producer)
Erotiquest ... (Producer)

2016

Evil Bong: High-5! ... (Director)
Virgin Hunters 2 ... (Executive Producer)
Killjoy's Psycho Circus ... (Producer)
Ravenwolf Towers ... (Director)

2015

Evil Bong 420 ... (Original Story)
Kings of Cult as Self
Troll Empire as Self

2014

Trophy Heads ... (Producer)
Toys of Terror: The Making of 'Dolls' as Self

2013

Ooga Booga ... (Story)
Gingerdead Man vs. Evil Bong ... (Director)
Rewind This! as Self
Blood of 1000 Virgins ... (Producer)
Unlucky Charms ... (Director)
The Dead Reborn ... (Producer)
Babes Behind Bars ... (Director)
Bada$$ Mothaf**kas ... (Director)
The Haunted Dollhouse ... (Producer)
Videozone: Behind the Scenes of Gingerdead Man vs Evil Bong
Hard Time: The Making of Prison as Himself
Dark Realm ... (Associate Producer)
Nazithon: Decadence and Destruction ... (Producer)

2012

Zombies vs. Strippers ... (Executive Producer)
Reel Evil ... (Producer)
The Dead Want Women ... (Director)
Puppet Master X: Axis Rising ... (Producer)
Killjoy Goes to Hell ... (Producer)
DevilDolls ... (Director)

2011

Evil Bong 3: The Wrath of Bong ... (Director)
Gingerdead Man 3: Saturday Night Cleaver ... (Producer)
Killer Eye: Halloween Haunt ... (Director)

2010

Charles Band's Puppet Master: Axis of Evil ... (Producer)
Demonic Toys: Personal Demons ... (Producer)
Killjoy 3 ... (Producer)

2009

Charles Band's Evil Bong 2: King Bong ... (Director)
Skull Heads ... (Story)

2008

Gingerdead Man 2: The Passion of the Crust ... (Producer)
Dangerous Worry Dolls ... (Producer)

2007

Dead Man's Hand ... (Director)
Erotic Secrets ... (Producer)
Decadent Evil 2 ... (Producer)

2006

Charles Band's Evil Bong ... (Director)
Secret Sins ... (Executive Producer)
Petrified ... (Director)
The Making of: Evil Bong
Full Moon Roadshow 2005

2005

Deadly End ... (Executive Producer)
The Gingerdead Man ... (Director)
Possessed ... (Executive Producer)
Decadent Evil ... (Producer)
Doll Graveyard ... (Director)
Sci-Fi Slaughter ... (Producer)
Frankenstein & the Werewolf Reborn! ... (Executive Producer)
Monsters Gone Wild ... (Producer)
Urban Evil: Trilogy of Fear ... (Executive Producer)
Aliens Gone Wild ... (Executive Producer)
When Puppets and Dolls Attack! ... (Producer)

2004

Dr. Moreau's House of Pain ... (Director)
Tomb of Terror ... (Executive Producer)
Puppet Master vs. Demonic Toys ... (Executive Producer)

2003

Mega Scorpions ... (Executive Producer)
Delta Delta Die! ... (Executive Producer)
Puppet Master: The Legacy ... (Director)
Birth Rite ... (Executive Producer)
Dark Walker ... (Executive Producer)

2002

Castle Erotica ... (Executive Producer)
Groom Lake ... (Executive Producer)
Bleed ... (Executive Producer)
Cut Throat ... (Executive Producer)
Dead & Rotting ... (Executive Producer)
Trancers 6: Life After Deth ... (Executive Producer)
Hell Asylum ... (Executive Producer)
Cryptz ... (Executive Producer)
DeathBed ... (Executive Producer)
Killjoy 2: Deliverance from Evil ... (Executive Producer)
Speck ... (Executive Producer)
Jigsaw ... (Executive Producer)

2001

Passion Lane ... (Executive Producer)
The Brotherhood ... (Executive Producer)
Train Quest ... (Executive Producer)
The Brotherhood 2: Young Warlocks ... (Executive Producer)
Love Exchange ... (Executive Producer)
Final Stab ... (Executive Producer)
Phantom Love ... (Executive Producer)
Platinum Blonde ... (Executive Producer)
Vampire Resurrection ... (Executive Producer)
Micro Mini Kids ... (Executive Producer)
Horrorvision ... (Executive Producer)
Stitches ... (Executive Producer)
The Vault ... (Executive Producer)
Witchouse III: Demon Fire ... (Executive Producer)
The Regina Pierce Affair ... (Executive Producer)
Vengeance of the Dead ... (Executive Producer)
Demonicus ... (Executive Producer)

2000

Virgins of Sherwood Forest ... (Executive Producer)
The Mistress Club ... (Executive Producer)
Voodoo Academy ... (Executive Producer)
Passion's Obsession ... (Executive Producer)
The St. Francisville Experiment ... (Executive Producer)
The Horrible Doctor Bones ... (Executive Producer)
Killjoy ... (Executive Producer)
The Exotic Time Machine II: Forbidden Encounters ... (Executive Producer)
Prison of the Dead ... (Executive Producer)
Gun: Fatal Betrayal ... (Producer)
The Dead Hate the Living! ... (Executive Producer)
Task Force 2001 ... (Executive Producer)
Horrific ... (Executive Producer)
Casting Couch ... (Executive Producer)
Sideshow ... (Executive Producer)
Ancient Evil: Scream of the Mummy ... (Executive Producer)
Diary of Lust ... (Executive Producer)
NoAngels.com ... (Director)
I, Vampire ... (Executive Producer)
Zorrita: Passion's Avenger ... (Executive Producer)
Twice The Fun ... (Thanks)
Witchouse II: Blood Coven ... (Executive Producer)

1999

Pleasurecraft ... (Executive Producer)
Retro Puppetmaster ... (Original Story)
Veronica 2030 ... (Executive Producer)
Andromina: The Pleasure Planet ... (Executive Producer)
Auditions from Beyond ... (Executive Producer)
Witchouse ... (Executive Producer)
The Killer Eye ... (Executive Producer)
Blood Dolls ... (Director)
Murdercycle ... (Executive Producer)
Teen Sorcery ... (Executive Producer)
Lip Service ... (Executive Producer)
Hotel Exotica ... (Executive Producer)
Hidden Beauties ... (Executive Producer)
Planet Patrol ... (Executive Producer)
Phantom Town ... (Executive Producer)
X-Treme Teens ... (Executive Producer)
The Incredible Genie ... (Producer)
Dungeon of Desire ... (Executive Producer)
Totem ... (Executive Producer)
Shapeshifter ... (Executive Producer)
Shandra: The Jungle Girl ... (Executive Producer)
Ragdoll ... (Idea)
Aliens in the Wild, Wild West ... (Executive Producer)
Dragonworld: The Legend Continues ... (Executive Producer)
Hollyweird as Self
Teenage Space Vampires ... (Executive Producer)
Timegate: Tales of the Saddle Tramps ... (Executive Producer)
Search for the Jewel of Polaris: Mysterious Museum ... (Executive Producer)
The Excalibur Kid ... (Executive Producer)

1998

Femalien 2 ... (Executive Producer)
Clockmaker ... (Executive Producer)
Teen Knight ... (Executive Producer)
Curse of the Puppet Master ... (Executive Producer)
Subspecies 4: Bloodstorm ... (Executive Producer)
Alien Arsenal ... (Executive Producer)
Talisman ... (Executive Producer)
Shrieker ... (Executive Producer)
Virtual Encounters 2 ... (Executive Producer)
The Exotic Time Machine ... (Executive Producer)
Frankenstein Reborn! ... (Executive Producer)
The Secret Kingdom ... (Executive Producer)
The Werewolf Reborn! ... (Executive Producer)
The Shrunken City ... (Executive Producer)
Kraa! The Sea Monster ... (Executive Producer)

1997

Bimbo Movie Bash ... (Executive Producer)
The Midas Touch ... (Executive Producer)
Skeletons ... (Executive Producer)
The Exotic House of Wax ... (Executive Producer)
Vampire Journals ... (Executive Producer)
Hollywood Rated 'R' as Self
Little Ghost ... (Executive Producer)
Hideous! ... (Director)
The Girls of Surrender Cinema ... (Executive Producer)
The Creeps ... (Director)
Lurid Tales: The Castle Queen ... (Executive Producer)
Johnny Mysto: Boy Wizard ... (Executive Producer)
Goobers! ... (Director)
Magic in the Mirror: Fowl Play ... (Executive Producer)
Videozone: The Making of "The Creeps" ... (Director)

1996

Femalien ... (Executive Producer)
Castle Freak ... (Executive Producer)
Zarkorr! The Invader ... (Producer)
Head of the Family ... (Director)
Oblivion 2: Backlash ... (Idea)
Virtual Encounters ... (Executive Producer)
Josh Kirby... Time Warrior: Journey to the Magic Cavern ... (Executive Producer)
Petticoat Planet ... (Executive Producer)
Demon in the Bottle ... (Executive Producer)
Magic in the Mirror ... (Executive Producer)
Josh Kirby... Time Warrior: Last Battle for the Universe ... (Producer)
Spellbreaker: Secret of the Leprechauns ... (Idea)
Alien Abduction: Intimate Secrets ... (Executive Producer)

1995

Blonde Heaven ... (Executive Producer)
Magic Island ... (Executive Producer)
Prehysteria! 3 ... (Executive Producer)
Huntress: Spirit of the Night ... (Executive Producer)
Josh Kirby... Time Warrior: Planet of the Dino-Knights ... (Executive Producer)
Leapin' Leprechauns ... (Executive Producer)
Josh Kirby... Time Warrior: The Human Pets ... (Producer)
Josh Kirby... Time Warrior: Trapped on Toyworld ... (Executive Producer)
Josh Kirby... Time Warrior: Eggs from 70 Million B.C. ... (Executive Producer)

1994

Pet Shop ... (Executive Producer)
Puppet Master 5 ... (Producer)
Shrunken Heads ... (Producer)
Bloodlust: Subspecies III ... (Executive Producer)
Dark Angel: The Ascent ... (Executive Producer)
Lurking Fear ... (Executive Producer)
Prehysteria! 2 ... (Executive Producer)
Beanstalk ... (Executive Producer)
Trancers 5: Sudden Deth ... (Executive Producer)
Oblivion ... (Idea)
Trancers 4: Jack of Swords ... (Executive Producer)
Dragonworld ... (Idea)
Test Tube Teens from the Year 2000 ... (Executive Producer)
Videozone: The Making of Bloodlust Subspecies 3 ... (Producer)

1993

Puppet Master 4 ... (Producer)
Robot Wars ... (Idea)
Dollman vs. Demonic Toys ... (Director)
Remote ... (Executive Producer)
Prehysteria! ... (Director)
Arcade ... (Story)
Bloodstone: Subspecies II ... (Idea)
Mandroid ... (Executive Producer)
Videozone: The Making of "Arcade" as Himself
Invisible: The Chronicles of Benjamin Knight ... (Executive Producer)
Videozone: Dollman vs Demonic Toys

1992

Trancers III ... (Executive Producer)
Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge ... (Executive Producer)
Seedpeople ... (Idea)
Demonic Toys ... (Idea)
Bad Channels ... (Idea)
Doctor Mordrid ... (Producer)
Netherworld ... (Story)
Videozone: The Making of Seedpeople ... (Producer)

1991

Subspecies ... (Idea)
Trancers II ... (Director)
The Pit and the Pendulum ... (Executive Producer)
Dollman ... (Executive Producer)
Shock Cinema: Volume One as Himself
Videozone: The Making of "Dollman"
Videozone: The Making of "The Pit & the Pendulum" ... (Director)
Videozone: The Making of "Puppet Master III"
Videozone: The Making of "Trancers II" ... (Director)

1990

Robot Jox ... (Executive Producer)
Crash and Burn ... (Director)
Meridian ... (Director)
Puppet Master II ... (Story)
Shadowzone ... (Executive Producer)
Videozone: The Making of "Puppet Master II" as Self

1989

Puppetmaster ... (Story)
Intruder ... (Executive Producer)
Arena ... (Executive Producer)
Dr. Alien ... (Executive Producer)
Buy & Cell ... (Executive Producer)
Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death ... (Executive Producer)
Deadly Weapon ... (Executive Producer)
Stephen King's World of Horror as Self

1988

Cellar Dweller ... (Executive Producer)
Pulse Pounders ... (Producer)
Catacombs ... (Executive Producer)
Transformations ... (Executive Producer)
Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama ... (Executive Producer)
Ghost Town ... (Executive Producer)
Spellcaster ... (Executive Producer)
The Evil Clergyman ... (Director)
Assault of the Killer Bimbos ... (Executive Producer)
The Occultist ... (Executive Producer)
Trancers: City of Lost Angels ... (Director)
Cemetery High ... (Executive Producer)
The Dungeonmaster II: A Sorcerer’s Nightmare ... (Director)

1987

Dolls ... (Executive Producer)
Valet Girls ... (Executive Producer)
Creepozoids ... (Executive Producer)
Prison ... (Executive Producer)
Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity ... (Executive Producer)
Ghoulies II ... (Executive Producer)
The Caller ... (Executive Producer)
Enemy Territory ... (Executive Producer)
Mutant Hunt ... (Executive Producer)
Vicious Lips ... (Executive Producer)
Psychos in Love ... (Producer)
The Princess Academy ... (Executive Producer)
Galactic Gigolo ... (Executive Producer)

1986

Troll as Young Couple on T.V.
From Beyond ... (Executive Producer)
Necropolis ... (Executive Producer)
TerrorVision ... (Executive Producer)
Crawlspace ... (Executive Producer)
Breeders ... (Executive Producer)
Eliminators ... (Producer)
Robot Holocaust ... (Executive Producer)
Dreamaniac ... (Executive Producer)
Zombiethon ... (Executive Producer)

1985

Savage Island ... (Producer)
Ghoulies ... (Executive Producer)
Zone Troopers ... (Executive Producer)
Underworld ... (Executive Producer)
Walking the Edge ... (Executive Producer)

1984

Trancers ... (Director)
Ghost Warrior ... (Producer)
The Dungeonmaster ... (Director)
Journeys through the Darkzone ... (Director)

1983

The Alchemist ... (Director)
Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn ... (Director)
Filmgore ... (Producer)

1982

Parasite ... (Director)
Famous T & A ... (Executive Producer)
The Best of Sex and Violence ... (Producer)

1980

The Day Time Ended ... (Executive Producer)

1979

Tourist Trap ... (Executive Producer)

1978

Fairy Tales ... (Producer)
Laserblast ... (Producer)
Auditions ... (Producer)

1977

Cinderella ... (Producer)
End of the World ... (Producer)

1976

Mansion of the Doomed ... (Producer)
Crash! as Motorist (uncredited)

1973

The Last Foxtrot in Burbank ... (Director)

1962

The Avenger as Ascanio (Uncredited)