David DeCoteau
Born: 1962-01-05 in Portland, Oregon, USA
Known For: Directing
Biography
David DeCoteau (born January 5, 1964) is an independent film director, a dual citizen of the US and Canada, who has worked professionally in the movie business since he was 18 years old. He got his start through a generous offer from movie legend Roger Corman, who hired him in 1980 as a production assistant at New World Pictures. In 1986, DeCoteau directed and produced his first feature film, Dreamaniac, for another generous film legend, Charles Band. DeCoteau has gone on to produce and direct over 200 motion pictures over the next several decades. His passion lies in the creation of popular genre programming made for global consumption. DeCoteau's experience in creating content in countries all over the world makes him a proven choice for exceptionally challenging projects. He resides in British Columbia, Canada and Hollywood, California.
Filmography
2026
- The Wrong Baby Daddy ... (Director)
- The Wrong Housemaid ... (Director)
- Home Makeover Nightmare ... (Director)
2025
- The Wrong Obsession ... (Director)
- The Christmas Campaign ... (Director)
- The Wrong Marriage ... (Director)
2024
- The Wrong Life Coach ... (Director)
- Make or Bake Christmas ... (Director)
- Million Dollar Lethal Listing ... (Director)
- Tall, Dark and Dangerous ... (Director)
- A Nanny to Die For ... (Director)
- Fatal Fixer Upper ... (Director)
2023
- As Luck Would Have It ... (Director)
- If I Can't Have You ... (Director)
- Clownado ... (Thanks)
- A Christmas Intern ... (Director)
- Honeymoon in Paradise ... (Director)
2022
- The Wrong Blind Date ... (Director)
- Killer Design ... (Director)
- Carnage Collection - Puppet Master: Trunk Full of Terror ... (Director)
- The Wrong High School Sweetheart ... (Director)
2021
- Keeping Up with the Joneses ... (Director)
- The Wrong Mr. Right ... (Director)
- Deceived by My Mother-In-Law ... (Director)
- Mommy's Deadly Con Artist ... (Director)
- The Wrong Real Estate Agent ... (Director)
- The Wrong Valentine ... (Director)
- The Wrong Fiancé ... (Director)
- The Wrong Cheer Captain ... (Director)
- The Wrong Prince Charming ... (Director)
2020
- The Wrong Stepfather ... (Director)
- The Wrong Cheerleader Coach ... (Director)
- The Wrong House Sitter ... (Director)
- Christmas Together ... (Director)
- Tales of the Uncanny as Self
- The Wrong Wedding Planner ... (Director)
- A Christmas for Mary ... (Director)
2019
- The Wrong Stepmother ... (Director)
- The Wrong Mommy ... (Director)
- The Wrong Boy Next Door ... (Director)
- Christmas Matchmakers ... (Director)
- The Wrong Tutor ... (Producer)
- The Wrong Cheerleader ... (Producer)
- Zombie Lust: Night Flesh ... (Director)
- Carole's Christmas ... (Director)
- My Mother's Stalker ... (Director)
- Weedjies! Halloweed Night as Party Guest
- Deadly Ten: Meet the Directors as Himself
2018
- The Wrong Teacher ... (Producer)
- Puppet Master: Blitzkrieg Massacre ... (Director)
- Psycho Sideshow: Demon Freaks ... (Director)
- The Wrong Friend ... (Producer)
- The Wrong Cruise ... (Director)
- Puppet Master: Blitzkrieg Massacre ... (Director)
- Purgatory: Entering John Carpenter's 'Escape From New York' as Self
2017
- The Disaster Artist as David DeCoteau (uncredited)
- The Wrong Student ... (Executive Producer)
- Blood Dynasty ... (Executive Producer)
- A Royal Christmas Ball ... (Director)
- Puppet Master: Axis Termination as Flamboyant Nazi #1
- The Wrong Crush ... (Producer)
- Witness Protection ... (Director)
- The Wrong Man ... (Producer)
- Deadly Lessons ... (Director)
- Runaway Christmas Bride ... (Director)
- A Christmas Cruise ... (Producer)
- My Christmas Grandpa ... (Director)
- Femaliens: Seduction of the Species ... (Director)
- Swamp Freak ... (Director)
- Delivering Christmas ... (Director)
- VHS Lives: A Schlockumentary as Self
2016
- The Wrong Roommate ... (Producer)
- A Husband for Christmas ... (Director)
- Evil Bong: High-5! as Self
- The Wrong Child ... (Producer)
- Asian Ghost Story ... (Director)
- 666: Teen Warlock ... (Director of Photography)
- Evil Exhumed ... (Director)
- Bloody Blacksmith ... (Director)
2015
- Evil Bong 420 as David DeCoteau
- Sorority Slaughterhouse ... (Director)
- 90210 Shark Attack ... (Producer)
2014
- I Am Divine as Self
- Trophy Heads as Juicy Stand Customer
- Bigfoot vs. D.B. Cooper ... (Producer)
- Knock 'em Dead ... (Director)
- 666: Kreepy Kerry ... (Producer)
- 3 Wicked Witches ... (Director)
- 3 Scream Queens ... (Producer)
- Doc Holliday's Revenge ... (Producer)
- 666: Devilish Charm ... (Director)
2013
- Bonnie & Clyde: Justified ... (Director)
- Badass Showdown ... (Director)
- A Talking Cat!?! ... (Director)
- Hansel & Gretel: Warriors of Witchcraft ... (Director)
- My Stepbrother Is a Vampire!?! ... (Producer)
- A Talking Pony!?! ... (Director)
- The Dead Reborn ... (Director)
- An Easter Bunny Puppy ... (Director)
2012
- Snow White: A Deadly Summer ... (Director)
- Baby Dolls Behind Bars ... (Camera Operator)
- 1313: Night of the Widow ... (Director)
- 1313: Cougar Cult ... (Director)
- 1313: Billy the Kid ... (Director)
- 2: Voodoo Academy ... (Director)
- A Halloween Puppy ... (Director)
- 1313: UFO Invasion ... (Producer)
- 1313: Bermuda Triangle ... (Producer)
- 1313: Frankenqueen ... (Director)
- Santa's Summer House ... (Director)
- Immortal Kiss: Queen of the Night ... (Producer)
- 1313: Hercules Unbound! ... (Director)
- 1313: Bigfoot Island ... (Story)
2011
- Christmas Spirit ... (Director)
- 1313: Wicked Stepbrother ... (Director)
- Screaming in High Heels: The Rise & Fall of the Scream Queen Era as Himself
- 1313: Giant Killer Bees! ... (Director)
- 1313: Actor Slash Model ... (Director)
- 1313: Haunted Frat ... (Director)
- 1313: Nightmare Mansion ... (Director)
- 1313: Boy Crazies ... (Director)
2010
- Charles Band's Puppet Master: Axis of Evil ... (Director)
- Body Blow ... (Story)
- Tales from the Lumber Yard: The Making of Galaxy of Terror as Self
2009
- Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit & The Pendulum ... (Director)
- Alien Presence ... (Director)
- The Invisible Chronicles ... (Director)
- Stem Cell ... (Director)
- The Brotherhood V: Alumni ... (Director)
- The Brotherhood VI: Initiation ... (Director)
- Nightfall ... (Director)
2008
- Gingerdead Man 2: The Passion of the Crust as Himself
- Edgar Allan Poe's House of Usher ... (Director)
- Playing with Fire ... (Director)
2007
- Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven ... (Director)
- Grizzly Rage ... (Director)
2006
- Beastly Boyz ... (Director)
2005
- Killer Bash ... (Director)
- Witches of the Caribbean ... (Director)
- The Brotherhood IV: The Complex ... (Director)
- Frankenstein & the Werewolf Reborn! ... (Director)
- Possessed ... (Director)
2004
- The Sisterhood ... (Director)
- Tomb of Terror ... (Director)
- Ring of Darkness ... (Director)
2003
- Leeches! as Franklin (voice)
- Speed Demon ... (Director)
2002
- Wolves of Wall Street ... (Director)
- The Frightening ... (Producer)
- The Brotherhood III: Young Demons ... (Director)
2001
- The Brotherhood ... (Director)
- Micro Mini Kids ... (Director)
- The Brotherhood 2: Young Warlocks ... (Story)
- Final Stab ... (Director)
2000
- Ancient Evil: Scream of the Mummy ... (Director)
- My Darker Half ... (Thanks)
- Prison of the Dead ... (Director)
- Voodoo Academy ... (Director)
- Horrific ... (Director)
1999
- Retro Puppetmaster ... (Director)
- Witchouse ... (Director)
- The Killer Eye ... (Director)
- Totem ... (Director)
- Videozone: The Making of "Retro Puppet Master" ... (Director)
1998
- Curse of the Puppet Master ... (Director)
- Alien Arsenal ... (Director)
- Leather Jacket Love Story ... (Story)
- Frankenstein Reborn! ... (Director)
- Talisman ... (Director)
- Shrieker ... (Director)
- Hollywood Mortuary as Himself
- Creaturealm: From the Dead as Himself
- Videozone: The Making of "Curse of the Puppet Master" as Director of "Curse of the Puppet Master"
1997
- Skeletons ... (Director)
- Absolution ... (Director)
- Lurid Tales: The Castle Queen ... (Director)
1996
- Bikini Goddesses ... (Director)
- Prey of the Jaguar ... (Director)
- Petticoat Planet ... (Director)
- Not Again! ... (Executive Producer)
1995
- Prehysteria! 3 ... (Director)
- Blonde Heaven ... (Director)
- Beach Babes 2: Cave Girl Island ... (Director)
- Huntress: Spirit of the Night ... (Executive Producer)
1994
- Test Tube Teens from the Year 2000 ... (Director)
1993
- Beach Babes from Beyond ... (Director)
- Naked Instinct ... (Executive Producer)
- The Witching ... (Thanks)
1992
- Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge ... (Producer)
- Humanoids from Atlantis ... (Executive Producer)
- Chickboxer ... (Story)
- Invasion of the Scream Queens as Himself
- Reanimator Academy ... (Executive Producer)
- Nightmare Asylum ... (Executive Producer)
- Redneck County Fever ... (Executive Producer)
1991
- Zombie Cop as Passerby in Car
- Steel and Lace ... (Producer)
- Trancers II ... (Line Producer)
- Videozone: The Making of "Puppet Master III"
- Shock Cinema: Volume One as Himself
- Sorority Babes in the Dance-A-Thon of Death ... (Executive Producer)
- Shock Cinema: Volume Four as Himself / Director
- Beasties ... (Executive Producer)
- Hung Studs 2 ... (Director)
1990
- Skinned Alive ... (Executive Producer)
- Ghoul School ... (Executive Producer)
- Crash and Burn as ILU Member (uncredited)
- Puppet Master II ... (Producer)
- The Girl I Want ... (Director)
- Linnea Quigley's Horror Workout ... (Executive Producer)
- The Ghost Writer ... (Producer)
1989
- Dr. Alien ... (Director)
- Ghost Writer ... (Producer)
- Ghetto Blaster ... (Producer)
- Murder Weapon ... (Director)
- Robot Ninja as Russ Mazzola
- American Rampage ... (Director)
- Action U.S.A. ... (Foley Artist)
- Assault of the Party Nerds ... (Executive Producer)
- Deadly Embrace ... (Director)
- Zombie Rampage ... (Executive Producer)
- Men of Action 2 ... (Director)
1988
- Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama ... (Director)
- Nightmare Sisters ... (Director)
- Lady Avenger ... (Director)
- Assault of the Killer Bimbos ... (Producer)
1987
- Creepozoids ... (Producer)
- Little Miss Innocence ... (Producer)
1986
- Dreamaniac ... (Director)
- Bad Boys Dormitory ... (Producer)
- Boy's Camp Memories ... (Director)
- Man Heat ... (Editor)
- Men on the Loose ... (Director)
- Play Safely ... (Director)
- When a Stranger Comes ... (Director)
- Freshman ... (Director)
- Male-O-Gram ... (Director)
- Jacqueline ... (Director)
- Revenge of the Babes 2 ... (Director)
- Revenge of the Babes ... (Director)
1985
- Tuff Turf ... (Craft Service)
- Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart ... (Sound Effects Editor)
- Sounds of Sex ... (Script)
- Working Girls ... (Director)
- Flesh 1995 ... (Writer)
- Mansplash ... (Director)
- Making It Huge ... (Director)
- Getting Off Campus ... (Director)
- Fleshtones ... (Director)
- Never Big Enough ... (Director)
- Men and Steel ... (Director)
- Totally Awesome ... (Director)
- Show & Tell ... (Director)
- Boys Just Wanna Have Sex ... (Director)
- New Wave Hustlers ... (Director)
1984
- Body Scorcher ... (Director)
- The French Lieutenant's Boys ... (Director of Photography)
- Campus Jocks ... (Director)
- Good Men Go Bad ... (Director)
1983
- The Woman in the Room ... (Grip)
- Games as Dick McCabe - (non-sexual) (uncredited)
- Cousins ... (Director of Photography)
- Doing It ... (Assistant Director)
- Dangerous ... (Production Assistant)