Charles Band's Full Moon Freakshow

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 A...

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 througho...

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. HITCHCO...

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 sta...

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].

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...

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 grea...

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!

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 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!

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 st...

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...

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. 

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 ambiti...

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 GHOULI...

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, T...

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...

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  othe...

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 AL...

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 blockbus...

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, au...

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...

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 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 ope...