Charles Band's Full Moon Freakshow
by Charles Band
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!
Episodes
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Charles Band's Full Moon Freakshow | Dana Delorenzo
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...
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Charles Band's Full Moon Freakshow | Andrew Divoff
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 -...
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Charles Band's Full Moon Freakshow | Barbara Steele
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...
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Charles Band's Full Moon Freakshow | Tim Thomerson
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...
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Charles Band's Full Moon Freakshow | William Katt
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].
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Charles Band's Full Moon Freakshow | Dee Wallace
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...
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Charles Band's Full Moon Freakshow | William Forsythe
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...
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Charles Band's Full Moon Freakshow | Gala and Roger Avary
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…
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Episode 22 | Darcy The Mail Girl Interviews Charles Band
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!
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Episode 21 | Jim Wynorski
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!
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Episode 20 | Joe Begos
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…
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Episide 19 | Joe Lynch
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…
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Episode 18: Mick Garris {Part 2}
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.
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Episode 18 | Mick Garris {Part One}
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...
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Episode 17: Ted Nicolaou
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...
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Episode 16: Rob Zombie {Part Two}
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...
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Episode 16: Rob Zombie {Part One}
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...
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Episode 15: Eli Roth
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…
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Episode 13: Larry Karaszewski
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...
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Sideshow #2: A blast from the past with Roger Corman
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…
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Episode 12: Joe Dante
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…
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Episode 11: John Waters
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…
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Episode 10: {Part 2} Joe Bob Briggs
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...
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Episode 10: Joe Bob Briggs
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!
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Episode 9: Barbara Crampton
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...
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Episode 8: Roger Corman
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...
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Episode 7 {Part 2}: Cassandra Peterson (Elvira, Mistress of the Dark)
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!
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Episode 6: Bunny & The Blade w/special guest Lauren Anne
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…
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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...
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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!
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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!
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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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