Charles Band's Full Moon Freakshow

This week, we close out 2022 with our pal Diana Prince, who joins Charlie to talk about horror movies and other macabre madness while also answering a bunch of bonkers fan questions! Get ready for a banger of a climax to a pretty awesome first year of Full Moon's Freakshow!

This week, Charlie welcomes LA based filmmaker Joe Lynch to the show! Lynch started his career in rock videos, before making his directorial debut in 2007's WRONG TURN 2, the direct to video sequel to the Stan Winston horror classic. Among his storied credits are serving as co-creator (with fellow horror director Adam Green) of the TV show HOLLISTON, the horror/comedy omnibus CHILLERAMA, the Peter Dinklage/Steve Zahn film KNIGHTS OF BADASSDOM and most recently, the acclaimed MAYHEM starring Steven Yuen from THE WALKING DEAD and TVs CREEPSHOW. Lynch is also a podcaster and esteemed horror culture personality and we're excited to have him on the show!

The conversation continues with Mick Garris, the man behind such genre faves as CRITTERS 2: THE MAIN COURSE, PSYCHO IV: THE BEGINNING and NIGHTMARE CINEMA as well as the Stephen King classic SLEEPWALKERS and the epic TV adaptations of King's THE STAND and THE SHINING. 

This week, Charlie welcomes a director, screenwriter, editor and producer who has been part of the Full Moon Family for over 40 years. Ted Nicolaou got his start in cinema as a sound recordist on one of the most iconic horror films of all time, 1974's THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE. From there, he joined forces with Charlie working as an editor on the 1979 classic TOURIST TRAP and 1985's GHOULIES and later, as a director on1986's utterly insane TERRORVISION! In 1991 he helmed the first entry in the SUBSPECIES franchise, the vampire film series that would define much of his career. Get ready for a wild episode with one of the most underrated horror helmers in history!

In this thrilling conclusion to our epic Rob Zombie interview, the king of all macabre media talks with Charlie about rock 'n' roll, classic horror movies, his hit riff on the immortal '60s TV sitcom The Munsters and much, much more! Batten down your hatches for a tsunami of cool in one of the wildest Freakshow episodes yet!

In this special 2-part episode, the Freakshow welcomes the inimitable Rob Zombie, our first real deal rock star guest! Of course, the fact that Zombie is also one of the most singular horror film directors working today makes him that much more fascinating. He's a horror movie fan turned heavy metal God turned filmmaker who has given the world such cult classics as THE DEVIL'S REJECTS, THE LORDS OF SALEM, the lean and mean remake of John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN and most recently, his psychedelic remount of the 60's TV staple THE MUNSTERS. He never stops touring, he never stops creating and he never stops being true to his signature artistic style. Buckle in for this first installment of our epic chat!

This week, Charlie welcomes  William Lustig - one of cult cinema's real deal heroes - to the Freakshow! As a director, Lustig made an instant splash in his early 20's helming the still shocking and controversial 1980 psychological slasher MANIAC, featuring gory effects by Tom Savini, and then continued evolving his craft with pictures like the MANIAC COP trilogy, the violent revenge thriller VIGILANTE and RELENTLESS. He also founded and still serves as the CEO of legendary home video label Blue Underground where he has spent decades rescuing and restoring some of the weirdest and coolest horror movies ever made.

This week, Charlie's guest is award-winning screenwriter Larry Karaszewski who, along with longtime writing partner Scott Alexander, co-penned such acclaimed pictures as Tim Burton's ED WOOD and BIG EYES; Milos Foreman's THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT and MAN ON THE MOON; the Stephen King adaptation 1408 and Eddie Murphy's triumphant comeback picture DOLEMITE IS MY NAME among many  others.  Larry is also a dedicated film historian and preservationist who eats, sleeps and breathes movies. Don't miss this one!

On this special Freakshow "Sideshow" episode, we flashback to 2015 when our pal Roger Corman sat down with Charlie for an on-camera conversation about their mutually crazy careers, an encounter that was released on DVD and streaming as KINGS OF CULT, presented here now in audio format for the first time. It's a fun, informative precursor to Roger's recent appearance on the Freakshow and hey, we ALL need more Roger Corman in our lives, don't we?

In this first installment of an epic two-part chat, Charlie welcomes legendary film critic, author, writer, comedian, actor and tireless champion of all things weird, wild, wonderful and cinematically ridiculous, Joe Bob Briggs!

This week, Charlie welcomes a man who almost single handedly invented independent genre cinema, the legendary Roger Corman. Corman first made waves via his work in the 1950s and '60s with American International Pictures, and later, with his own companies New World Pictures, Concorde, New Concorde and New Horizons. He's made over 200 films and distributed hundreds more and along the way has discovered and nurtured such major talents as Francis Ford Coppola, Jack Nicholson, Dick Miller, Joe Dante, Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, James Cameron and many, many more. He's a force of nature that refuses to stop making movies his way and we couldn't be more thrilled to have him on the Freakshow!

In this second installment of our two-part chat with the one and only Cassandra Peterson (aka Elvira: Mistress of the Dark), Charlie gets the iconic Queen of Halloween to talk about the early days of Elvira, her foray into filmdom and much, much more! Don't miss this awesome episode! 

This week Charlie welcomes a dynamic duo that's been setting the AEW wrestling world on fire for years...and they're even a couple in real life! Toronto born grappler Laura Dennis is better known as The Bunny and her partner in and out of the ring is The Blade, one half of the tag team The Butcher and The Blade. Best of all, they're both horror movie lovers and hardcore Full Moon fans. This vibrant chat is followed by an interview with supersexy influencer and burgeoning Full Moon starlet Lauren Ann!

Go further into the first Freakshow with this special bonus "sideshow" mini-episode! Listen to Charlie and special guest John Carpenter go deep discussing their first (and to date, only) collaboration in Charlie's utterly insane 1973 comedy LAST FORXTROT IN BURBANK! Tons of laughs and little know facts make up this awesomely entertaining Freakshow extra!

Charlie sits down with the "man behind the mask" Kane Hodder, the stuntman turned thespian whose greatest claim to freaky fame is playing iconic slasher Jason Voorhees in a handful of the latter FRIDAY THE 13th sequels! But there's more to Kane than meets the machete, as Charlie soon finds out!

This week, Charlie welcomes the one and only Tom Savini to the show! As a pioneering special makeup effects artist, he ushered in the "splatter" subgenre with his shockingly gory FX for George Romero's 1978 zombie masterpiece DAWN OF THE DEAD and then kept breaking the rules throughout the 1980s with film like FRIDAY THE 13th, FRIDAY THE 13th: THE FINAL CHAPTER, DAY OF THE DEAD and THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE PART 2. As an actor, he has appeared in Romero's vampire drama MARTIN,  as "Sex Machine" in Robert Rodriguez's FROM DUSK TILL DAWN and as a vicious slaver in Quentin Tarantino's DJANGO UNCHAINED. And that's just scratching the surface. Get ready for a full hour of Savini awesomeness!

This week on the Freakshow, Charlie welcomes horror icon Bill Moseley, the actor who first found fame starring as Choptop in Tobe Hooper's THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE PART 2 and then found even greater success starring as Otis in a series of gnarly Rob Zombie shockers like HOUSE OF A THOUSAND CORPSES and THE DEVIL'S REJECTS as well as dozens of other weird and wild genre movies. Then, model and influencer CJ Sparxx shows up to the party; she's the host of the popular podcast “inside OnlyFans” and she's been featured on multiple Playboy magazine covers and centerfolds. And it goes without saying that she's super hot!

This week, Charlie sits down with iconic director and composer (and Full Moon friend John Carpenter (HALLOWEEN, THE THING) to talk shop and then shares some space with super sexy social media starlet Dare Taylor!

Join trailblazing producer, director, best-selling author and B-movie mogul Charles Band as he invites you into his weird world.

Every week, Charlie sits down in the epicenter of the Full Moon universe in Hollywood, telling true tales from the front lines of strange cinema and welcoming a cavalcade of his favorite famous humans to share space and spill all!

It’s the ULTIMATE pop culture sideshow; a funny, fascinating, insightful and often jaw-dropping exercise in politically incorrect fringe film culture banter, with one of genre film’s most iconic and enduring personalities serving as your ringmaster!