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Charles Band

Highest Rated: 94% Re-Animator (1985)

Lowest Rated: 7% Ghoulies (1985)

Birthday: Dec 27, 1951

Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA

A pioneer in the field of home video, Band built a reputation as a prolific and fairly reliable producer and frequent director of entertaining low-budget genre films. Beginning in 1973 with the erotic comedy "Last Foxtrot in Burbank" (featuring Sally Marr, mother of celebrated comic Lenny Bruce), Band has produced a string of features variously delving into the realms of horror, sci-fi and fantasy. Many of these were met with mainstream critical disdain and spotty regional releases. Detecting a potential gold mine in the explosion of the direct-to-video market and the omnipresent programming demands of cable in the late 1980s, Band formed Full Moon Entertainment, a marketing and production entity designed to release modestly budgeted "brand-name" fantasy movies directly to video stores without theatrical release. (Paramount Pictures handled the video distribution.)

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Highest-Rated Movies

94% 82% Re-Animator Watchlist
89% 54% Trancers
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83% 52% Subspecies
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82% 70% From Beyond
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70% 50% Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich Watchlist
63% 44% Castle Freak
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63% 48% Tourist Trap
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60% 54% Dolls
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50% 41% The Pit and the Pendulum
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50% 40% Puppet Master
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Filmography

Movies TV Shows
Cutter's Club 2025 Director Death Streamer 2024 Director Quadrant 2024 Director Killjoy: Terrify 2024 Producer The Primevals 70% 2023 Producer Parasite Lady 2023 Executive Producer Subspecies V: Blood Rise 2023 Executive Producer Carnage Collection: Vampire Bloodlust 2023 Director, Producer Bad CGI Gator 2023 Producer Diamonds of Malibu 2023 Producer, Executive Producer AIMEE: The Visitor 2023 Director, Producer Tales of the Fantastic 2023 Producer Critters, Carnivores and Creatures 2023 Director, Producer, Executive Producer Carnage Collection: Vicious Violence & Vengeance 2023 Director, Producer Full Moon Features Carnage Collection: Feast of Flesh 2023 Director Demonic Toys: Jack-Attack 2023 Executive Producer Full Moon Features Carnage Collection: Evil Edibles 2023 Director Bring Her to Me 2023 Executive Producer Full Moon Features Carnage Collection: Deadly Dollies 2023 Director Carnage Collection: Forbidden Freaks 2023 Writer, Producer Beyond the Resonator 2022 Producer Piranha Women 2022 Producer Sweet Sting of the Black Widow 2022 Producer Evil Bong 888: Infinity High 2022 Director, Producer Dragon Tales 2022 Executive Producer
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