This week, we're stoked to welcome the beautiful and talented Italian/American actress Dana DeLorenzo to the show. Dana started her career in radio and TV before becoming a regular cast member on the hit series The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson. But it was when she locked a leading role as tough-as-nails "ghostbeating" warrior Kelly Maxwell in Bruce Campbell and Sam Raimi's cult horror show ASH VS THE EVIL DEAD that her pop culture legacy was firmly cemented. Dana reprised her role as Kelly...
Nov 26, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 9
This week Charlie welcomes a real deal renaissance man: an actor, producer, philanthropist and a genuine icon of horror cinema, Andrew Divoff. Andrew got his start on the small screen appearing in an episode of the short-lived 80s cult series MISFITS OF SCIENCE before going big - and bloody - starring as a satanic surgeon in 1986's NEON MANIACS. After showing up in dozens of hit TV series throughout the decade, Andrew broke through to the big time with his part as outlaw biker Cherry Ganz in the...
Nov 19, 2024•1 hr 12 min
This week it's our honour to welcome an absolute icon of not just horror cinema, but of international film culture, full stop, Lady Barbara Steele! After a moderately successful acting career in her native England, Barbara found her first taste of serious fame in Italy starring in director Mario Bava's landmark Gothic thriller BLACK SUNDAY and Ricardo Freda's eerie chiller THE HORRIBLE DR. HITCHCOCK before dancing for Fellini in his classic 1963 masterpiece 8 1/2. After a memorable turn in Roger...
Nov 12, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 2Ep. 7
In this latest episode, Charlie welcomes real deal Full Moon royalty to the show: the great Tim Thomerson! Tim started his career in show business as a character actor and standup comedian doing the club circuit in LA, before being scouted by director Robert Altman to star in his 1978 comedy A WEDDING. That same year he would be cast as the gender bent Gene in the cult TV series Quark and then star in other films and television like the meta slasher classic FADE TO BLACK, at least one episode of...
Sep 10, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Join Charlie on the road at Horror Hound weekend in Cincinnati, Ohio as he sits down with Musician/Actor William Katt [The Greatest American Hero, Carrie, House].
Aug 13, 2024•53 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Dee Wallace joins Charlie on the Freakshow this week! From her first major role in Wes Craven's 1977 classic THE HILLS HAVE EYES, followed by a startling lead performance in Joe Dante's werewolf masterpiece THE HOWLING, Dee found superstardom starring as the mom in Steven Spielberg's juggernaut sci-fi family hit ET and soon afterwards, as yet more mom's encountering the unknown in the 1983 adaptation of Stephen King's CUJO and the cult creature feature CRITTERS. Since then, Dee has worked for gr...
Aug 06, 2024•50 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Charlie welcomes veteran actor William Forsythe who you know from his work in the Cohen Brothers/Nicolas Cage comedy RAISING ARIZONA, his role as Flat Top in Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy, his appearances in Rob Zombie shockers like HALLOWEEN and THE DEVIL'S REJECTS, his role as the brutal butcher Manny Horowitz in HBO's BOARDWALK EMPIRE and many, many more. He's truly one of the great performers and we are honored to have him here, on the Freakshow!
Jul 30, 2024•53 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Charles Band's beloved podcast returns for a second season and we're kicking it off with an interview with father/daugher cinephiles Roger and Gala Avary, recorded last year at Full Moon HQ! Hear stories from Roger about working for Charlie in his youth and learn about what goes into the making of the duo's Quentin Tarantino co-hosted show THE VIDEO ARCHIVES PODCAST!
Jul 23, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 1
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!
Dec 13, 2022•40 min
This week on the Freakshow is a newly minted member of the Full Moon family and one of the most important B movie directors in history: the one, the only Jim Wynorski, director of THE LOST EMPIRE, CHOPPING MALL, BIG BAD MAMA 2 and THE RETURN OF THE SWAMP THING as well as the upcoming KILLBOTS!
Dec 06, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 21
This week, Charlie welcomes another buzz name in indie horror to the show: New England born writer, director Joe Begos! Joe first made a dent in the world of strange cinema with his 2013 sci-fi shocker ALMOST HUMAN and followed that with his critically acclaimed exploding head saga THE MIND'S EYE. Splatter-filled flicks like the punk rock vampire film BLISS and the epic survival shoot-em-up VFW starring DON'T BREATHE's Steven Lang and Fred "The Hammer" Williamson followed leading to his latest f...
Nov 30, 2022•49 min•Season 1Ep. 20
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 Stev...
Nov 22, 2022•1 hr 12 min
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.
Nov 15, 2022•45 min
In this epic, two-part interview, Charlie talks to director, writer, producer and podcaster 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. In 2005, he created the acclaimed MASTERS OF HORROR, an insanely ambitious TV series that amassed a staggering collection of talented directors like Stuart Gordon, Tobe Ho...
Nov 08, 2022•43 min•Season 1Ep. 18
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 th...
Oct 25, 2022•1 hr
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!
Oct 18, 2022•49 min
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 r...
Oct 11, 2022•36 min
This week's guest is not just an accomplished writer, producer, director and actor, he's also a brand unto himself, a contemporary master of horror. Eli Roth's first feature film, 2003's CABIN FEVER immediately established him as an auteur in the genre, a reputation solidified by the success of his merciless, blackly comic 2005 film HOSTEL and its even grislier sequel. Along the way, Eli has given us such savage films as the Italian cannibal film riff THE GREEN INFERNO, the remake of DEATH WISH ...
Oct 04, 2022•1 hr 13 min
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 U...
Sep 27, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 14
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 th...
Sep 20, 2022•57 min•Season 1Ep. 13
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?
Sep 13, 2022•53 min
This week's guest got his start - as so many other great talents did - working for Roger Corman during the heyday of New World Pictures, first with the spastic comedy HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD and later with the ferocious Killer fish classic PIRANHA. He chased this early success with 1981’s THE HOWLING, widely considered the greatest werewolf movie ever made. And then came GREMLINS in 1984, the blockbuster film that almost single handedly spurred on the invention of the PG-13 rating. He’s one of the g...
Aug 30, 2022•56 min•Season 1Ep. 12
This week Charlie welcomes one of the founding fathers of transgressive cinema; a man who broke all the rules and managed to magically make high art out of bad taste. His early films like Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble and multiple maniacs secured him a rabid cult following of weirdos and his more mainstream efforts like Cry Baby and Hairspray made him a household name. He’s a writer, director, author, world traveler, comedian and oracle of Trash movie culture. He’s the immortal John Waters and ...
Aug 23, 2022•53 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Last week's Freakshow guest was so awesome that we had to spread his gory gospel over two killer episodes. So with that, sit back, relax and get ready for the second installment of my epic chat with the one, the only Joe Bob Briggs...
Aug 16, 2022•47 min•Season 1Ep. 10
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!
Aug 09, 2022•29 min
This week Charlie welcomes actress, producer and horror movie icon Barbara Crampton to the show. Barbara first found maor fame starring in early Full Moon films like Stuart Gordon's RE-ANIMATOR and FROM BEYOND and would later appear in PUPPET MASTER, CASTLE FREAK and more. She has also worked for Brian DePalma, Roger Corman, Adam Wingard and Rob Zombie while also finding fame as a daytime soap opera star. Recently, Barbara made a serious comeback as a bloodsucking housewife in the award winning ...
Aug 02, 2022•57 min•Season 1Ep. 9
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,...
Jul 26, 2022•56 min•Season 1Ep. 8
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!
Jul 19, 2022•43 min•Season 1Ep. 7
This week, Charlie welcomes the one and only Cassandra Peterson (aka the iconic Elvira: Mistress of the Dark) to the show! Cassandra's a horror culture superstar who has literally done it all; she's an actor, writer, producer, performer, comedian, singer, entrepreneur, a best-selling author and the undisputed Queen of Halloween. Bow down!
Jul 14, 2022•34 min•Season 1Ep. 7
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...
Jul 05, 2022•1 hr 11 min
