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
2025
- Prompt ... (Director)
- City of Demons ... (Producer)
- Evil Bong-A-Thon! ... (Director)
- Game of Hearts ... (Executive Producer)
- Dungeons of Ecstasy ... (Director)
- The Devil Inside Her ... (Producer)
- Gingerdead Man: Murder-Thon ... (Producer)
- Cutter's Club ... (Producer)
2024
- Death Streamer ... (Producer)
- Moon Maidens 2 ... (Executive Producer)
- Barbie & Kendra Crash Joe Bob's Drive-In Jamboree! ... (Producer)
- Sci-Fi Vixens from Beyond ... (Executive Producer)
- Evil Bong 888: Infinity High ... (Producer)
- Baby Oopsie 3: Burn Baby Burn ... (Producer)
- A Celebration of Tenacity ... (Executive Producer)
- The Charles Band Empire! as Self
- Lost to Time: Unearthing the Primevals as Self
- In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994 as Self
- Quadrant ... (Director)
- Killjoy: Terrify ... (Producer)
- Church of Chills: The First Event as Self
2023
- Bad Influencer ... (Producer)
- Love Cycle ... (Executive Producer)
- Murderbot ... (Executive Producer)
- The Primevals ... (Producer)
- Power Couple Confessions ... (Producer)
- The 12 Slays of Christmas: 2023 Edition ... (Executive Producer)
- Bring Her to Me ... (Story)
- AIMEE. The Visitor ... (Director)
- Demonic Toys: Jack-Attack ... (Executive Producer)
- Videoverse: Mixtape ... (Executive Producer)
- Full Moon's Roadshow Revisited as Self (archive footage)
- Critters, Carnivores and Creatures ... (Producer)
- Parasite Lady ... (Executive Producer)
- Magic and Mischief ... (Producer)
- Tales of the Fantastic ... (Producer)
- Subspecies V: Blood Rise ... (Executive Producer)
- Boondock Bordello ... (Producer)
- Carnage Collection: Deadly Dollies ... (Producer)
- Carnage Collection: Vampire Bloodlust ... (Producer)
- Carnage Collection: Evil Edibles ... (Producer)
- Carnage Collection: Bloody Big Top ... (Producer)
- Carnage Collection: Feast of Flesh ... (Producer)
- Frankenspy ... (Executive Producer)
- Bad CGI Gator ... (Producer)
- Diamonds of Malibu ... (Executive Producer)
- Carnage Collection: Forbidden Freaks ... (Producer)
- Carnage Collection: Vicious Violence & Vengeance ... (Producer)
2022
- Giantess Battle Attack! ... (Producer)
- Haunted Hotties ... (Executive Producer)
- Building Bionica ... (Producer)
- Femalien: Starlight Saga ... (Producer)
- Sweet Sting of the Black Widow ... (Executive Producer)
- Famous T&A 2 ... (Director)
- Dragon Tales ... (Producer)
- Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow as Host
- The 12 Slays of Christmas ... (Producer)
- Beyond the Resonator ... (Producer)
- Puppet Master: Doktor Death ... (Producer)
- Cosmic Chronicles ... (Executive Producer)
- Attack of the 50 Foot Camgirl ... (Producer)
- Carnage Collection - Puppet Master: Trunk Full of Terror ... (Producer)
- Piranha Women ... (Producer)
- Baby Oopsie 2: Murder Dolls ... (Producer)
- Bad to The Bong: 16 Years of Ebee ... (Director)
- Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama 2 ... (Executive Producer)
- In Search of Tomorrow as Self - Interviewee
- In Search of Darkness: Part III as Self
- Curse of the Re-Animator ... (Producer)
2021
- Cassex ... (Executive Producer)
- Betty Danger: Vice Cop ... (Executive Producer)
- Baby Oopsie ... (Producer)
- The Gingerweed Man ... (Producer)
- The Girls of Excelsior Elite ... (Executive Producer)
- Hot Wives, Inc ... (Executive Producer)
- The Seduction of Rose Parrish ... (Director)
- The Resonator: Miskatonic U ... (Producer)
- Videozone 2021: Baby Oopsie as Self
- Scream of the Blind Dead ... (Executive Producer)
- Seduced By Fame ... (Executive Producer)
- Don't Let Her In ... (Producer)
- It Knows You're Alone ... (Executive Producer)
2020
- Full Exposure ... (Executive Producer)
- Castle Freak ... (Executive Producer)
- Bikini Apocalypse ... (Executive Producer)
- Corona Zombies ... (Producer)
- Femalien: Cosmic Crush ... (Executive Producer)
- Blade: The Iron Cross ... (Producer)
- Barbie & Kendra Save the Tiger King ... (Director)
- Hotties Hideout ... (Executive Producer)
- Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business as Self
- Dirty Angels 4: Object of Obsession ... (Producer)
- Hot Times at the Lost Oasis ... (Executive Producer)
- Barbie & Kendra Storm Area 51 ... (Producer)
- Empire of the Full Moon ... (Producer)
2019
- The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs as Self
- Sins of a Glamour Girl ... (Executive Producer)
- Dirty Angels 2: Get Wet ... (Executive Producer)
- Passions of the Lost Idol 2 ... (Executive Producer)
- Private Places ... (Executive Producer)
- Dirty Angels 3: Model Behavior ... (Producer)
- Deadly Ten: Meet the Directors as Himself
- Weedjies! Halloweed Night ... (Idea)
- Giantess Attack vs. Mecha Fembot ... (Producer)
- Passions of the Lost Idol ... (Executive Producer)
- Necropolis: Legion ... (Executive Producer)
- Indecent Affairs of a Housewife ... (Executive Producer)
- Zombie Lust: Night Flesh ... (Producer)
- Butcher's Bake Off: Hell's Kitchen ... (Director)
- The Exotic Adventures of Jack & Jill ... (Executive Producer)
2018
- Secret Sins ... (Executive Producer)
- Company Girls ... (Executive Producer)
- Deadtime Tales ... (Producer)
- Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich ... (Executive Producer)
- Dirty Angels: Welcome to Lust Angeles ... (Executive Producer)
- Puppet Master: Blitzkrieg Massacre ... (Director)
- Evil Bong 777 ... (Director)
- Deadtime Tales 2 ... (Producer)
- Puppet Master: Blitzkrieg Massacre ... (Producer)
- Girl Talk Confidential ... (Executive Producer)
- Strippers Exposed ... (Executive Producer)
- Death Heads: Brain Drain ... (Producer)
- Sex School: Final Exams ... (Executive Producer)
- Sex School: Student Bodies ... (Executive Producer)
- Sex School: Teachers Pet ... (Executive Producer)
- Sex School: Lessons of Lust ... (Executive Producer)
- Vampire Slaughter: Eaten Alive ... (Producer)
- Psycho Sideshow: Demon Freaks ... (Producer)
- Backstage Raw ... (Executive Producer)
- Deadly Dolls: Deepest Cuts ... (Director)
- Bad Girls at Play ... (Executive Producer)
- Real Naughty Housewives 2 ... (Executive Producer)
- Sex School: Dorms of Desire ... (Executive Producer)
- Wild Wet Resort Girls ... (Executive Producer)
- Real Naughty Vice Girls 2 ... (Executive Producer)
- Raid on Passion Planet ... (Executive Producer)
- Real Naughty Vice Girls ... (Executive Producer)
- Game On... Clothes Off ... (Executive Producer)
2017
- T&A Time Travelers ... (Producer)
- Femaliens: Seduction of the Species ... (Producer)
- Erotiquest ... (Producer)
- Evil Bong 666 ... (Original Story)
- Virgin Hunters 3: Agents of Passion ... (Executive Producer)
- Puppet Master: Axis Termination ... (Producer)
- Real Naughty Housewives ... (Executive Producer)
- Fists of Fury ... (Producer)
- Real Naughty Virtual Virgins ... (Executive Producer)
2016
- Killjoy's Psycho Circus ... (Producer)
- Virgin Hunters 2 ... (Executive Producer)
- Evil Bong: High-5! ... (Director)
- Ravenwolf Towers ... (Director)
2015
- Evil Bong 420 ... (Original Story)
- Troll Empire as Self
- Kings of Cult as Self
2014
- Trophy Heads ... (Producer)
- Toys of Terror: The Making of 'Dolls' as Self
2013
- Rewind This! as Self
- Unlucky Charms ... (Director)
- Dark Realm ... (Associate Producer)
- Ooga Booga ... (Story)
- Blood of 1000 Virgins ... (Producer)
- The Dead Reborn ... (Producer)
- The Haunted Dollhouse ... (Producer)
- Babes Behind Bars ... (Director)
- Bada$$ Mothaf**kas ... (Director)
- Hard Time: The Making of Prison as Himself
- Nazithon: Decadence and Destruction ... (Producer)
- Gingerdead Man vs. Evil Bong ... (Director)
- Nazithon:Decadence and Destruction ... (Director)
2012
- Reel Evil ... (Producer)
- Puppet Master X: Axis Rising ... (Producer)
- Killjoy Goes to Hell ... (Producer)
- The Dead Want Women ... (Director)
- Zombies vs. Strippers ... (Executive Producer)
- DevilDolls ... (Director)
2011
- Killer Eye: Halloween Haunt ... (Director)
- Evil Bong 3: The Wrath of Bong ... (Director)
- Gingerdead Man 3: Saturday Night Cleaver ... (Producer)
2010
- Killjoy 3 ... (Producer)
- Puppet Master: Axis of Evil ... (Producer)
- Demonic Toys: Personal Demons ... (Producer)
2009
- Skull Heads ... (Story)
- Evil Bong 2: King Bong ... (Director)
2008
- Dangerous Worry Dolls ... (Producer)
- Gingerdead Man 2: The Passion of the Crust ... (Producer)
2007
- Dead Man's Hand ... (Director)
- Decadent Evil 2 ... (Producer)
- Erotic Secrets ... (Producer)
2005
- Doll Graveyard ... (Director)
- Deadly End ... (Executive Producer)
- The Gingerdead Man ... (Director)
- Decadent Evil ... (Producer)
- Sci-Fi Slaughter ... (Producer)
- Frankenstein & the Werewolf Reborn! ... (Executive Producer)
- Monsters Gone Wild ... (Producer)
- Aliens Gone Wild ... (Executive Producer)
- When Puppets and Dolls Attack! ... (Producer)
- Possessed ... (Executive Producer)
- Urban Evil: Trilogy of Fear ... (Executive Producer)
2004
- Dr. Moreau's House of Pain ... (Director)
- Tomb of Terror ... (Executive Producer)
- Puppet Master vs Demonic Toys ... (Executive Producer)
2003
- Birth Rite ... (Executive Producer)
- Mega Scorpions ... (Executive Producer)
- Dark Walker ... (Executive Producer)
- Delta Delta Die! ... (Executive Producer)
- Puppet Master: The Legacy ... (Director)
2002
- Hell Asylum ... (Executive Producer)
- DeathBed ... (Executive Producer)
- Cryptz ... (Executive Producer)
- Dead & Rotting ... (Executive Producer)
- Speck ... (Executive Producer)
- Bleed ... (Executive Producer)
- Groom Lake ... (Executive Producer)
- Castle Erotica ... (Executive Producer)
- Killjoy 2: Deliverance from Evil ... (Executive Producer)
- Cut Throat ... (Executive Producer)
- Trancers 6: Life After Deth ... (Executive Producer)
- Jigsaw ... (Executive Producer)
2001
- The Vault ... (Executive Producer)
- Train Quest ... (Executive Producer)
- Final Stab ... (Executive Producer)
- Vampire Resurrection ... (Executive Producer)
- Platinum Blonde ... (Executive Producer)
- Love Exchange ... (Executive Producer)
- Demonicus ... (Executive Producer)
- Passion Lane ... (Executive Producer)
- The Regina Pierce Affair ... (Executive Producer)
- The Brotherhood 2: Young Warlocks ... (Executive Producer)
- Witchouse III: Demon Fire ... (Executive Producer)
- Vengeance of the Dead ... (Executive Producer)
- Micro Mini Kids ... (Executive Producer)
- The Brotherhood ... (Executive Producer)
- Phantom Love ... (Executive Producer)
- HorrorVision ... (Executive Producer)
- Stitches ... (Executive Producer)
2000
- Killjoy ... (Executive Producer)
- Voodoo Academy ... (Executive Producer)
- Casting Couch ... (Executive Producer)
- Horrific ... (Executive Producer)
- Sideshow ... (Executive Producer)
- NoAngels.com ... (Director)
- Virgins of Sherwood Forest ... (Executive Producer)
- I, Vampire ... (Executive Producer)
- Diary of Lust ... (Executive Producer)
- Passion's Obsession ... (Executive Producer)
- The Exotic Time Machine II: Forbidden Encounters ... (Executive Producer)
- Witchouse II: Blood Coven ... (Executive Producer)
- Prison of the Dead ... (Executive Producer)
- Task Force 2001 ... (Executive Producer)
- The Dead Hate the Living! ... (Executive Producer)
- Zorrita: Passion's Avenger ... (Executive Producer)
- Twice The Fun ... (Thanks)
- The Mistress Club ... (Executive Producer)
- The Horrible Doctor Bones ... (Producer)
- The St. Francisville Experiment ... (Executive Producer)
- Gun: Fatal Betrayal ... (Producer)
- Ancient Evil: Scream of the Mummy ... (Executive Producer)
1999
- Totem ... (Executive Producer)
- Ragdoll ... (Idea)
- Blood Dolls ... (Director)
- Planet Patrol ... (Executive Producer)
- Auditions from Beyond ... (Executive Producer)
- Lip Service ... (Executive Producer)
- Veronica 2030 ... (Executive Producer)
- Witchouse ... (Executive Producer)
- Hotel Exotica ... (Executive Producer)
- Pleasurecraft ... (Executive Producer)
- Hollywierd as Self
- Murdercycle ... (Executive Producer)
- Retro Puppet Master ... (Original Story)
- Timegate: Tales of the Saddle Tramps ... (Executive Producer)
- Dragonworld: The Legend Continues ... (Executive Producer)
- The Killer Eye ... (Executive Producer)
- X-Treme Teens ... (Executive Producer)
- Aliens in the Wild, Wild West ... (Executive Producer)
- Teen Sorcery ... (Executive Producer)
- Teenage Space Vampires ... (Executive Producer)
- Andromina: The Pleasure Planet ... (Executive Producer)
- The Excalibur Kid ... (Executive Producer)
- Shandra: The Jungle Girl ... (Executive Producer)
- Hidden Beauties ... (Executive Producer)
- Dungeon of Desire ... (Executive Producer)
- Shapeshifter ... (Executive Producer)
- Phantom Town ... (Executive Producer)
- Search for the Jewel of Polaris: Mysterious Museum ... (Executive Producer)
- The Incredible Genie ... (Producer)
1998
- Femalien 2 ... (Executive Producer)
- Talisman ... (Executive Producer)
- Alien Arsenal ... (Executive Producer)
- Clockmaker ... (Executive Producer)
- Frankenstein Reborn! ... (Executive Producer)
- Shrieker ... (Executive Producer)
- Kraa! The Sea Monster ... (Executive Producer)
- Curse of the Puppet Master ... (Executive Producer)
- The Exotic Time Machine ... (Executive Producer)
- Subspecies 4: Bloodstorm ... (Executive Producer)
- Virtual Encounters 2 ... (Executive Producer)
- The Shrunken City ... (Executive Producer)
- Teen Knight ... (Executive Producer)
- The Werewolf Reborn! ... (Executive Producer)
- The Secret Kingdom ... (Executive Producer)
1997
- Vampire Journals ... (Executive Producer)
- Hideous! ... (Director)
- Skeletons ... (Executive Producer)
- Goobers! ... (Director)
- The Exotic House of Wax ... (Executive Producer)
- The Creeps ... (Director)
- The Girls of Surrender Cinema ... (Executive Producer)
- Johnny Mysto: Boy Wizard ... (Executive Producer)
- Videozone: The Making of "The Creeps" ... (Director)
- Magic in the Mirror: Fowl Play ... (Executive Producer)
- Lurid Tales: The Castle Queen ... (Executive Producer)
- Hollywood Rated 'R' as Self
- The Midas Touch ... (Executive Producer)
- Bimbo Movie Bash ... (Executive Producer)
- Little Ghost ... (Executive Producer)
1996
- Femalien ... (Executive Producer)
- Castle Freak ... (Executive Producer)
- Virtual Encounters ... (Executive Producer)
- Petticoat Planet ... (Executive Producer)
- Magic in the Mirror ... (Executive Producer)
- Oblivion 2: Backlash ... (Idea)
- Spellbreaker: Secret of the Leprechauns ... (Idea)
- Zarkorr! The Invader ... (Producer)
- Josh Kirby... Time Warrior: Last Battle for the Universe ... (Producer)
- Demon in the Bottle ... (Executive Producer)
- Head of the Family ... (Director)
- Alien Abduction: Intimate Secrets ... (Executive Producer)
- Josh Kirby... Time Warrior: Journey to the Magic Cavern ... (Executive Producer)
1995
- Josh Kirby... Time Warrior: Eggs from 70 Million B.C. ... (Executive Producer)
- Prehysteria! 3 ... (Executive Producer)
- Magic Island ... (Executive Producer)
- Leapin' Leprechauns ... (Executive Producer)
- Josh Kirby... Time Warrior: Trapped on Toyworld ... (Executive Producer)
- Josh Kirby... Time Warrior: Planet of the Dino-Knights ... (Executive Producer)
- Josh Kirby... Time Warrior: The Human Pets ... (Producer)
- Blonde Heaven ... (Executive Producer)
- Huntress: Spirit of the Night ... (Executive Producer)
1994
- Prehysteria! 2 ... (Executive Producer)
- Beanstalk ... (Executive Producer)
- Lurking Fear ... (Executive Producer)
- Dragonworld ... (Idea)
- Shrunken Heads ... (Producer)
- Pet Shop ... (Executive Producer)
- Trancers 4: Jack of Swords ... (Executive Producer)
- Oblivion ... (Idea)
- Bloodlust: Subspecies III ... (Executive Producer)
- Trancers 5: Sudden Deth ... (Executive Producer)
- Puppet Master 5 ... (Producer)
- Test Tube Teens from the Year 2000 ... (Executive Producer)
- Dark Angel: The Ascent ... (Executive Producer)
1993
- Remote ... (Executive Producer)
- Robot Wars ... (Idea)
- Prehysteria! ... (Director)
- Arcade ... (Story)
- Mandroid ... (Executive Producer)
- Bloodstone: Subspecies II ... (Idea)
- Invisible: The Chronicles of Benjamin Knight ... (Executive Producer)
- Puppet Master 4 ... (Producer)
- Videozone: The Making of "Arcade" as Himself
- Dollman vs. Demonic Toys ... (Director)
1992
- Demonic Toys ... (Idea)
- Seedpeople ... (Idea)
- Netherworld ... (Story)
- Bad Channels ... (Idea)
- Doctor Mordrid ... (Producer)
- Puppet Master III ... (Executive Producer)
- Trancers 3: Deth Lives ... (Executive Producer)
1991
- Dollman ... (Executive Producer)
- Subspecies ... (Idea)
- The Pit and the Pendulum ... (Executive Producer)
- Trancers II: The Return of Jack Deth ... (Director)
- Videozone: The Making of "Puppet Master III"
- Videozone: The Making of "Dollman"
- Videozone: The Making of "The Pit & the Pendulum" ... (Director)
- Videozone: The Making of "Trancers II" ... (Director)
- Shock Cinema: Volume One as Himself
1990
- Meridian ... (Director)
- Robot Jox ... (Executive Producer)
- Shadowzone ... (Executive Producer)
- Puppet Master II ... (Story)
- Videozone: The Making of "Puppet Master II" as Self
- Crash and Burn ... (Director)
1989
- Puppet Master ... (Story)
- Deadly Weapon ... (Executive Producer)
- Dr. Alien ... (Executive Producer)
- Intruder ... (Executive Producer)
- Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death ... (Executive Producer)
- Buy & Cell ... (Executive Producer)
- Arena ... (Executive Producer)
- Stephen King's World of Horror as Self
1988
- Transformations ... (Executive Producer)
- Ghost Town ... (Executive Producer)
- Catacombs ... (Executive Producer)
- Cemetery High ... (Executive Producer)
- The Occultist ... (Executive Producer)
- Cellar Dweller ... (Executive Producer)
- Spellcaster ... (Executive Producer)
- Assault of the Killer Bimbos ... (Executive Producer)
- Pulse Pounders ... (Producer)
- Trancers: City of Lost Angels ... (Director)
- The Dungeonmaster II: A Sorcerer’s Nightmare ... (Director)
- The Evil Clergyman ... (Director)
- Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama ... (Executive Producer)
1987
- Galactic Gigolo ... (Executive Producer)
- Vicious Lips ... (Executive Producer)
- Ghoulies II ... (Executive Producer)
- The Caller ... (Executive Producer)
- Valet Girls ... (Executive Producer)
- Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity ... (Executive Producer)
- Psychos in Love ... (Producer)
- Creepozoids ... (Executive Producer)
- Mutant Hunt ... (Executive Producer)
- The Princess Academy ... (Executive Producer)
- Enemy Territory ... (Executive Producer)
- Prison ... (Executive Producer)
1986
- Troll as Young Couple on T.V.
- Robot Holocaust ... (Executive Producer)
- From Beyond ... (Executive Producer)
- Dreamaniac ... (Executive Producer)
- Necropolis ... (Executive Producer)
- TerrorVision ... (Executive Producer)
- Breeders ... (Executive Producer)
- Crawlspace ... (Executive Producer)
- Dolls ... (Executive Producer)
- Zombiethon ... (Executive Producer)
- Eliminators ... (Producer)
1985
- Zone Troopers ... (Executive Producer)
- Savage Island ... (Producer)
- Transmutations ... (Executive Producer)
- Walking the Edge ... (Executive Producer)
- Ghoulies ... (Executive Producer)
1984
- Trancers ... (Director)
- Ghost Warrior ... (Producer)
- The Dungeonmaster ... (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)
- Auditions ... (Producer)
- Laserblast ... (Producer)
1977
- Cinderella ... (Producer)
- End of the World ... (Producer)
1976
- Crash! as Motorist (uncredited)
- Mansion of the Doomed ... (Producer)
1973
- Last Foxtrot in Burbank ... (Director)
1962
- The Avenger as Ascanio