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

Models vs. Werewolves ... (Producer)
Robotica ... (Producer)
Dungeons of Ecstasy ... (Director)
Full Moon Rising: The Charles Band Story as Self

2025

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

2021

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

2020

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

2019

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

2018

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

2017

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

2016

Virgin Hunters 2 ... (Executive Producer)
Evil Bong: High-5! ... (Director)
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 ... (Producer)
Babes Behind Bars ... (Director)
The Haunted Dollhouse ... (Producer)
The Dead Reborn ... (Producer)
Bada$$ Mothaf**kas ... (Director)
Hard Time: The Making of Prison as Himself
Nazithon: Decadence and Destruction ... (Producer)
Dark Realm ... (Associate Producer)
Videozone: Behind the Scenes of Gingerdead Man vs Evil Bong

2012

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

2011

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

2010

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

2009

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

2008

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

2007

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

2006

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

2005

The Gingerdead Man ... (Director)
Deadly End ... (Executive 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)
Decadent Evil ... (Producer)
Possessed ... (Executive Producer)
When Puppets and Dolls Attack! ... (Producer)
Aliens Gone Wild ... (Executive Producer)

2004

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

2003

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

2002

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

2001

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

2000

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

1999

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

1998

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

1997

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

1996

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

1995

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

1994

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

1993

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

1992

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

1991

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

1990

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

1989

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

1988

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

1987

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

1986

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

1985

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

1984

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

1983

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

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)