Charles Band Archives

Mansion of the Doomed (1976)

Rating: ★★

Dec 19, 2018Mad Surgeon

This first film from B-budget producer Charles Band, a blatant copy of Eyes Without a Face with mad surgeon Richard Basehart abducting women and transplanting their eyeballs into his blind daughter

Director: Michael Pataki

Actors: Richard Basehart, Gloria Grahame, Trish Stewart, Lance Henriksen, …

Category: Horror

19 December 201813 January 2026 by Roog

Cinderella (1977)

Rating: ★★

Dec 18, 2025Adult Fairytale

This was one of the earliest films from Charles Band who has since gone on to become a prolific producer/director of low-budget films. Here Band offers a very adult take on the Cinderella fairytale

Director: Michael Pataki

Actors: Cheryl Smith, Sy Richardson, Kirk Scott

Category: Fantasy

18 December 20252 January 2026 by Roog

End of the World (1977)

Rating: ½

Nov 14, 2013Aliens in a Convent/Looming End of the World

A thorough embarrassment on Christopher Lee's resume – an early Charles Band film in which Lee is a stranded alien inhabiting the cloned body of priest in a convent of nuns

Director: John Hayes

Actors: Christopher Lee, Sue Lyon, Lew Ayres, Kirk Scott, …

Category: Science Fiction

14 November 201322 November 2025 by Roog

Laserblast (1978)

Rating: ★

Jun 3, 2005Teen Underdog Takes Revenge with an Alien Raygun

One of the first films to come out exploiting the success of Star Wars – a badly made teen underdog fantasy in which bullied Kim Milford takes revenge after finding an alien raygun

Director: Michael Rae

Actors: Kim Milford, Roddy McDowall, Cheryl Smith, Gianni Russo, …

Category: Science Fiction

3 June 200520 June 2026 by Roog

Tourist Trap (1979)

Rating: ★★★

Jun 22, 2001Psychokinetic Psycho

An early Charles Band film with Chuck Connors psychically bringing a collection mannequins to life. A fine little film that develops a eerie strangeness all of its own

Director: David Schmoeller

Actors: Chuck Connors, Tanya Roberts, Jon Van Ness, Robin Sherwood

Category: Horror

22 June 200114 September 2024 by Roog

Parasite (1982)

Rating: ½

Oct 19, 2002Chestbursting Nasty

The second directorial outing of a young Charles Band, this is essentially an earthbound version of Alien. Not a very good film, the principal reasons to watch are some cheap effects and a young Demi Moore

Director: Charles Band

Actors: Robert Glaudini, Demi Moore, Luca Bercovici, James Davidson, …

Category: Science Fiction

19 October 200223 September 2024 by Roog

Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (1983)

Rating: ★

Jun 3, 2002Planetary Adventure

Early Charles Band film made in the mid-80s 3D revival fad. A cheap planetary adventure that feels like a collage of other SF films around at the time, most notably Star Wars and Mad Max 2

Director: Charles Band

Actors: Jeffrey Byron, Mike Preston, Tim Thomerson, Kelly Preston, …

Category: Science Fiction

3 June 200213 July 2026 by Roog

The Alchemist (1983)

Rating: ½

Mar 5, 2015Evil Sorcerer

One of the earliest films from Charles Band. In the years following, Band went onto produce and occasionally direct a great many often enterprisingly cheap low-budget genre films – this is not one of them

Director: Charles Band

Actors: Robert Ginty, John Sanderford, Robert Glaudini

Category: Horror

5 March 201521 November 2025 by Roog

The Dungeonmaster (1984)

Rating: ★

Aug 20, 2005Warrior's Virtual Quest/Anthology

An anthology film produced by Charles Band where assorted directors turn in seven episodes all centred around a videogame warrior put through a series of tests by The Devil

Director: Charles Band, David Allen, John Carl Buechler, Peter Manoogian, Rosemarie Turko, Steve Ford, Ted Nicolaou

Actors: Jeffrey Byron, Richard Moll

Category: Fantasy

20 August 200513 July 2026 by Roog

Trancers (1985)

Rating: ★★★

May 5, 2003Time-Travelling Detective

One of the more enjoyable films from Charles Band with Tim Thomerson giving a highly entertaining performance as a hard-boiled detective travelled back from the future

Director: Charles Band

Actors: Tim Thomerson, Helen Hunt, Michael Stefani, Art La Fleur, …

Category: Science Fiction

5 May 20035 July 2026 by Roog

Eliminators (1986)

Rating: ★★★

Feb 27, 2001Action Team vs Mad Scientist

One of the more enjoyable films from Charles Band's Empire Productions, a comic-book of a film that assembles an action team of various abilities on an adventure up against a mad scientist

Director: Peter Manoogian

Actors: Denise Crosby, Roy Dotrice, Andrew Prine, Tad Horino

Category: Science Fiction

27 February 200117 October 2025 by Roog

Puppetmaster (1989)

Rating: ★★★

May 15, 2001Malevolent Dolls

The first in a series of killer doll films from Charles Band, which has generated some ten sequels. The original has an undeniable atmosphere

Director: David Schmoeller

Actors: Paul Le Mat, Irene Miracle, Robin Frates, Jimmie F. Skaggs, …

Category: Horror

15 May 200119 February 2025 by Roog

Puppet Master II (1990)

Rating: ★★

Dec 6, 2004Malevolent Dolls

The first of the long-running series of sequels to Full Moon's Puppetmaster, this is essentially a rerun of the first film

Director: David Allen

Actors: Elizabeth MacLellan, Collin Bernsen, Nita Talbot, Charlie Spradling

Category: Horror

6 December 200427 June 2024 by Roog

Crash and Burn (1990)

Rating: ★★

Jun 2, 2002Killer Android

Charles Band film that gives the impression it is a Transformers-type film. While a Transformer does appear in a few scenes, this settles down to be more of a killer android whodunit.

Director: Charles Band

Actors: Megan Ward, Bill Moseley, Jack McGee, Elizabeth MacLellan, …

Category: Science Fiction

2 June 200211 January 2026 by Roog

Dollman (1990)

Rating: ★★★

Aug 2, 2001Miniature Cop

A highly entertaining effort from Charles Band and Full Moon Productions directed by Albert Pyun featuring Tim Thomerson as a hard-boiled miniature alien cop come to Earth

Director: Albert Pyun

Actors: Tim Thomerson, Jackie Earle Haley, Frank Collison, Humberto Ortiz, …

Category: Science Fiction

2 August 20016 January 2026 by Roog

Meridian (1990)

Rating: ★★★

Nov 6, 2003Erotic Fairytale

A much better than usual film from Charles Band, an erotic fairytale in which Sherilyn Fenn becomes involved with a circusmaster and his twin brother who turns into a werewolf

Director: Charles Band

Actors: Sherilyn Fenn, Malcolm Jamieson, Charlie Spradling, Hilary Mason

Category: Fantasy

6 November 20039 June 2020 by Roog

Puppetmaster III: Toulon’s Revenge (1991)

Rating: ★★

Jan 26, 2003Puppetmaster & Toys vs Nazis

The third of Full Moon's Puppet Master films, this is a prequel that explores Andre Toulon's origins in Nazi Germany

Director: David DeCoteau

Actors: Guy Rolfe, Richard Lynch, Ian Abercrombie, Aron Eisenberg, …

Category: Horror

26 January 200313 April 2021 by Roog

Trancers II (1991)

Rating: ★★½

May 1, 1999Time-Travelling Detective

The first of several sequels to Charles Band's Trancers with Tim Thomerson as a hard-boiled time-travelling detective. This does a passably okay job of following up on its predecessor

Director: Charles Band

Actors: Tim Thomerson, Helen Hunt, Megan Ward, Biff Manard, …

Category: Science Fiction

1 May 199924 April 2020 by Roog

Subspecies (1991)

Rating: ★★

Jul 29, 2002Vampires

The first in a series of vampire films from Charles Band and Full Moon Productions. Several sequels followed.

Director: Ted Nicolaou

Actors: Laura Tate, Anders Hove, Michelle McBride, Irina Movila, …

Category: Horror

29 July 20027 October 2024 by Roog

Demonic Toys (1992)

Rating: ★★½

Dec 3, 2015Malevolent Toys and Dolls

An entertaining B-budget film about malevolent toys from low-budget producer Charles Band, known for the Ghoulies and Puppetmaster films. One of the first works from screenwriter David S. Goyer

Director: Peter Manoogian

Actors: Tracy Scoggins, Bentley Mitchum, Barry Lynch

Category: Horror

3 December 201517 January 2026 by Roog

Doctor Mordrid (1992)

Rating: ★★★

May 7, 2014Magician Superhero

One of the better films from Charles Band – an uncredited homage to Marvel's Dr Strange. The film captures a wonderful atmosphere of esotericism and Jeffrey Combs is perfect as the sorcerer superhero

Director: Albert Band, Charles Band

Actors: Jeffrey Combs, Yvette Nipar, Brian Thompson, Jay Acovone

Category: Fantasy

7 May 201419 January 2026 by Roog

Bad Channels (1992)

Rating: ★

Apr 27, 2003Aliens Invade Radio Station

Another film from Charles Band's Full Moon Productions, this is made with a deliberate chessiness as aliens take over a radio station shrinking girls down into bottles

Director: Ted Nicolaou

Actors: Paul Hipp, Melissa Behr, Ian Patrick Williams, Sonny Carl Davis, …

Category: Science Fiction

27 April 200324 November 2025 by Roog

Seedpeople (1992)

Rating: ★

Feb 26, 2011Alien Body Snatchers

Full Moon Entertainment produce a cheapo B-budget copy of Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Director: Peter Manoogian

Actors: Sam Hennings, Andrea Roth, Holly Fields, Sonny Carl Davis

Category: Science Fiction

26 February 201110 March 2025 by Roog

Netherworld (1992)

Rating: ★★★

Apr 11, 2024Voodoo in the Bayous

One of the better films from Charles Band’s Full Moon Productions set amid voodoo rites in the American South and creating an atmosphere of exotic/erotic mystery

Director: David Schmoeller

Actors: Michael Bendetti, Anjanette Comer, Alex Datcher, Robert Sampson

Category: Horror

11 April 202414 November 2025 by Roog

Prehysteria! (1993)

Rating: ★

Feb 27, 2003Baby Dinosaurs

In the aftermath of the success of Jurassic Park, Albert and Charles Band quickly responded with this children's dinosaur film that contains some of the most pitiful effects in any film of this era

Director: Albert Band, Charles Band

Actors: Brett Cullen, Austin O'Brien, Samantha Mills, Stephen Lee, …

Category: Science Fiction

27 February 20035 July 2026 by Roog

Dollman Vs. the Demonic Toys (1993)

Rating: ★★

Jun 1, 2004Miniature Cop vs Satanic Dolls

Full Moon production that offers the novelty of bringing together their Dollman and Demonic Toys franchises, although nearly a third of the film is comprised of recycled footage from said films

Director: Charles Band

Actors: Tim Thomerson, Tracy Scoggins, Melissa Behr, Phil Brock, …

Category: Science Fiction

1 June 200413 October 2025 by Roog

Bloodstone: Subspecies II (1993)

Rating: ★★

Apr 1, 2003Vampires

The second in a series of low-budget vampire films from Charles Band and Full Moon Productions. Nothing much to write home about.

Director: Ted Nicolaou

Actors: Denice Duff, Anders Hove, Melanie Shatner, Kevin Blair, …

Category: Horror

1 April 20037 October 2024 by Roog

Puppet Master 4 (1993)

Rating: ★★

Jan 15, 2026Malevolent Dolls

The fourth in Charles Band’s most popular series about a group of malevolent dolls. This turns the dolls into good guys and adds an Ancient Egyptian deity who despatches a Terminator robot against them

Director: Jeff Burr

Actors: Gordon Currie, Chandra West, Teresa Hill, Felton Perry, …

Category: Horror

15 January 202615 January 2026 by Roog

Dark Angel: The Ascent (1994)

Rating: ★★★

Dec 6, 2013Female Demon Visits Earth

One of the better films to emerge from Full Moon, the story of a female demon who escapes to Earth and becomes a vigilante defender of the innocent. Rather well done with Angela Featherstone being particularly otherworldly

Director: L. Hassani

Actors: Angela Featherstone, Nicholas Worth, Charlotte Stewart, Milton James

Category: Fantasy

6 December 201314 January 2026 by Roog

Lurking Fear (1994)

Rating: ★★

Mar 24, 2015H.P. Lovecraft Adaptation/Creatures Beneath the Graveyard

Charles and Albert Band had a success with the H.P. Lovecraft adapted Re-Animator; their attempt to replicate that with another Lovecraft story is lacking Stuart Gordon's splattery black humour

Director: C. Courtney Joyner

Actors: Blake Bailey, Jon Finch, Ashley Laurence, Jeffrey Combs, …

Category: Horror

24 March 201530 June 2026 by Roog

Dragonworld (1994)

Rating: ★★★

Sep 2, 2003Children's Dragon Film

One of the better films produced by Charles Band. Despite variable dragon effects, this is a children's film that captures a genteel sense of innocence

Director: Ted Nicolaou

Actors: Andrew Keir, John Woodvine, Brittney Powell, Courtland Mead, …

Category: Fantasy

2 September 200315 October 2025 by Roog

Arcade (1994)

Rating: ★

Jun 14, 2002Malevolent Virtual Reality Game

A quickie effort made by Albert Pyun for Charles Band's Full Moon Productions to exploit the Virtual Reality themes popularised by The Lawnmower Man, concerning a malevolent VR videogame

Director: Albert Pyun

Actors: Megan Ward, John DeLancie, Peter Billingsley, Norbert Weisser, …

Category: Science Fiction

14 June 200219 November 2025 by Roog

Shrunken Heads (1994)

Rating: ★★

May 5, 2005Disembodied Heads Take Revenge

Another film from Charles Band’s Full Moon Production centred around dolls - in this case, three murdered youths who are resurrected as flying shrunken heads. A film that never quite lives up to the outlandishness of its premise

Director: Richard Elfman

Actors: Julius Harris, Meg Foster, Bodhi Elfman, Paul Linke

Category: Horror

5 May 200528 June 2024 by Roog

Oblivion (1994)

Rating: ★★★

Apr 2, 2019Western on an Alien Planet

One of the best films from Full Moon Productions that locates a Western on another planet and manages a perfectly pitched homage to either genre

Director: Sam Irvin

Actors: Richard Joseph Paul, Andrew Divoff, Jimmie F. Skaggs, Meg Foster, …

Category: Science Fiction

2 April 201920 January 2023 by Roog

Beanstalk (1994)

Rating: ★★

Jul 29, 2000Modernised Fairy-Tale

A low-budget children's film produced by Charles Band, this modernises the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. A sense of humour often proves the film's saving grace among the tattiness.

Director: Michael Paul Davis

Actors: Margot Kidder, Stuart Pankin, J.D. Daniels, Patrick Renna, …

Category: Fantasy

29 July 200026 November 2025 by Roog

Pet Shop (1995)

Rating: ★

Jun 19, 2010Shape-Changing Alien Pets

A painfully bad Charles Band production for children about a strange couple that set up a pet shop selling alien creatures

Director: Hope Perello

Actors: Terry Kiser, Leigh Ann Orsi, Joanne Baron, Shashawnee Hall

Category: Science Fiction

19 June 20104 September 2024 by Roog

Leapin’ Leprechauns! (1995)

Rating: ★★½

Dec 31, 1995Leprechauns

Likeable film for children from Charles Band about an American family who inherit a property in Ireland inhabited by leprechauns

Director: Ted Nicolaou

Actors: John Bluthal, Grant Cramer, Sharon Lee Jones, Gregory Edward Smith, …

Category: Fantasy

31 December 199524 October 2024 by Roog

Leapin’ Leprechauns! 2 (1996)

Rating: ★★★

Sep 21, 1998Leprechauns vs Witch

Sequel to the Charles Band produced children's film Leapin' Leprechauns!, this is a much superior film that gets quite darker and ventures into the underworld

Director: Ted Nicolaou

Actors: Madeleine Potter, Gregory Edward Smith, Godfrey James, Tina Martin, …

Category: Fantasy

21 September 199821 June 2026 by Roog

Magic in the Mirror (1996)

Rating: ★★★½

Mar 21, 1999Alternate Dimension/Talking Ducks

One of the best children's films from Charles Band, an utterly bizarre effort about a world through a magic mirror ruled by talking ducks

Director: Ted Nicolaou

Actors: Jamie Renee Smith, Saxon Trainor, David Brooks, Godfrey James, …

Category: Fantasy

21 March 199925 October 2024 by Roog

Retro Puppetmaster (1999)

Rating: ★★

Nov 17, 2000Toymaker Creates Living Dolls

This was the seventh of Full Moon's most popular series, the Puppet Master films. This goes back to tell how young Andre Toulon (Greg Sestero) originally created the puppets

Director: Joseph Tennent

Actors: Greg Sestero, Guy Rolfe, Stephan Blackehart, Jack Donner, …

Category: Horror

17 November 200013 December 2025 by Roog

Blood Dolls (1999)

Rating: ★★★

Apr 23, 2000Demented Puppetmaster

Another of Charles Band's doll horror films a la the Puppetmaster and Demonic Toys films. Here Band goes totally gonzo and makes one of the strangest films of his entire career

Director: Charles Band

Actors: Debra Mayer, Phil Fondacaro, Nicholas Worth, Jack Maturin, …

Category: Horror

23 April 200023 September 2024 by Roog

The Gingerdead Man (2005)

Rating: ★★

Mar 30, 2017Possessed Gingerbread Man

One of the most ridiculous title creature to ever inspire a horror franchise – a possessed gingerbread man. From low-budget producer Charles Band, this rips off the Chucky series but with baked goods instead of a doll

Director: Charles Band

Actors: Robin Sydney, Gary Busey, Larry Cedar, James Snyder

Category: Horror

30 March 201713 July 2026 by Roog

Evil Bong (2006)

Rating: ★★

Jun 9, 2020Demonic Marijuana Bong

From Charles Band, this features a possessed marijuana bong that sucks those that imbibe inside into the simulation of a stripper bar where they lose their souls. Several sequels followed.

Director: Charles Band

Actors: David Weidoff, Brian Lloyd, Robin Sydney, Tommy Chong, …

Category: Horror

9 June 202013 July 2026 by Roog

Gingerdead Man 2: Passion of the Crust (2008)

Rating: ★★★

Mar 23, 2022Possessed Gingerbread Man

Sequel to Full Moon’s The Gingerdead Man, this one has been made as an hilariously meta-fictional self-parody, spoofing Full Moon Studios and their films

Director: William Butler

Actors: K-von Moezzi, Kelsey Sanders, Michelle Bauer, Jacob Witkin, …

Category: Horror

23 March 202225 May 2026 by Roog

Corona Zombies (2020)

Rating: ★

Apr 24, 2020Corona Virus Zombies

A Charles Band film that has the distinction of being the first film released during the Corona Virus Pandemic. You watch out of curiosity of how the usual logistics of filmmaking deal with quarantine and social distancing

Director: Charles Band

Actors: Cody Renee Cameron, Robin Sydney

Category: Horror

24 April 202013 July 2026 by Roog

Blade: The Iron Cross (2020)

Rating: ★★★

Oct 13, 2022Killer Dolls and Nazi Zombies

A spinoff from Full Moon’s Puppetmaster film series, this stirs killer dolls, mad scientists, psychics and Nazi zombies together in an undeniably entertaining mix

Director: John Lechago

Actors: Tania Fox, Vincent Cusimano, Roy Abrahamson, Griffin Blazi, …

Category: Horror

13 October 20226 January 2026 by Roog

The Resonator: Miskatonic U (2021)

Rating: ★★

Apr 17, 2022H.P. Lovecraft Adaptation

Charles Band returns to H.P. Lovecraft and conducts a low-budget remake of From Beyond, which he had memorably overseen back in the 80s with Stuart Gordon

Director: William Butler

Actors: Dane Oliver, Michael Paré, Christine Braa, Austin Woods, …

Category: Horror

17 April 202229 October 2025 by Roog

Attack of the 50 Foot Camgirl (2022)

Rating: ★★

Sep 24, 2024Attack of the 50 Foot Woman Parody

B budget director Jim Wynorski makes another of his bimbo films, a parody of Attack of the 50 Foot Woman where a cam girl is turned giant size after eating GMO food

Director: Jim Wynorski

Actors: Ivy Smith, Eli Cirino, Christine Nguyen, Lisa London, …

Category: Science Fiction

24 September 202420 November 2025 by Roog

The Primevals (2023)

Rating: ★★★

Jun 28, 2024Lost World/Alien Lizard People

A fascinating lost world/alien lizard people stop-motion animated film that has been in production for a record 56 years, eventually pieced together and released by Charles Band several years after its creator's death

Director: David Allen

Actors: Juliet Mills, Richard Joseph Paul, Leon Russom, Walker Brandt, …

Category: Science Fiction

28 June 202413 November 2025 by Roog

Bad CGI Gator (2023)

Rating: ★

Mar 3, 2025Giant Alligator

A deliberately ridiculous Charles Band production where students throwing their laptops into a lake causes an alligator to float through the air and become giant-sized

Director: Danny Draven

Actors: Michael Bonini, Maddie Lane, Ben Vandermey, Rebecca Stoughton, …

Category: Horror

3 March 202524 November 2025 by Roog

Death Streamer (2024)

Rating: ★★

Jul 13, 2026Vampire Livestreamer

A film from low-budget producer/director Charles Band about a trio of horror podcasters who come across a vampire that livestreams its kills on the internet, only for their attention to bring it after them

Director: Charles Band

Actors: Sean Ohlman, Aaron McDaniel, Emma Massalone, Kaitlin Moore, …

Category: Horror

13 July 202613 July 2026 by Roog