Charles Band's Full Moon Freakshow

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 un-PC fringe film culture banter, with one of genre film’s most iconic and enduring personalities serving as your ringmaster!

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Episodes

Sideshow #1: A Little More With John Carpenter

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!

Jun 28, 2022•10 min

Episode 5: Kane Hodder

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!

Jun 21, 2022•45 min•Season 1Ep. 5

Episode 4: Tom Savini

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"...

Jun 14, 2022•57 min

Episode 3: Bill Moseley w/special guest CJ Sparxx

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” an...

Jun 07, 2022•1 hr 34 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Episode 2: John Logan w/ special guest Diana Prince

This week on the show, Charlie welcomes one of the hottest screenwriters in Hollywood, an Oscar nominated scribe responsible for films like Ridley Scott's GLADIATOR and ALIEN: COVENANT, Martin Scorsese's THE AVIATOR and HUGO, the James Bond epics SKYFALL and SPECTRE and the underrated 1999 horror movie BATS! He's also the creator of the cult TV series PENNY DREADFUL and he'll make his directorial debut later this year in Blumhouse's THEY/THEM starring Kevin Bacon. Chasing Logan, we have the sexy...

May 31, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 2

Episode 1: John Carpenter w/special guest Dare Taylor

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!

May 24, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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