Puppet Masters / Castle Freaks
This is the definitive Full Moon Features podcast! Each week, we’re going to watch a different film from Charles Band’s madcap universe of low-budget horror thrillers, encompassing not only the Full Moon films but also the earlier stable of Empire International Pictures and sub-labels like Moonbeam and Torchlight!
Episodes
This week we're joined by B-movie (I'm sorry, B-Plus) icon Tiffany Shepis! Tiffany started her career in James Gunn's TROMEO AND JULIET and has gone on to appear in nearly 200 projects, including Full Moon favorite DELTA DELTA DIE! We catch up with Tiffany for a delightful conversation about coming up in the microbudget horror scene and our own double-feature mixed tapes.
Hosted by Jarrod Hornbeck and Steve Guntli
Theme song by K...
Step right up! This week we're stepping into the SIDESHOW, Fred Olen Ray's loving homage to Tod Browning's FREAKS! Filmmaker Frank Sabatella joins us on our tour through the horrors of this carnival treat.
Hosted by Jarrod Hornbeck and Steve Guntli
Theme song by Kyle Hornbeck
Logo by Doug McCambridge
Email: puppetmasterscastlefreaks@gmail.com
Instagram/Threads: @puppetmasters_castlefreaks
YouTube: @PuppetMastersCastleFreaks
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We're back with the PUPPET MASTER series, and the franchise has entered a bumpy transitional period. We're talking about CURSE OF THE PUPPETMASTER, an odd side adventure starring the puppets and a crew of entirely new characters, and RETRO PUPPETMASTER, which takes us all the way back to the beginning of the timeline with Greg Sestero as young Toulon! Author and PM expert is back to walk us through the weird and tortured production...
Two movies for the price of one! This week we're lumping two flicks together for one high-quality episode, with returning guest Jed Shepherd (HOST)! We're talking about 1992's BODY SNATCHERS knockoff SEEDPEOPLE, one of our last films from Full Moon's golden era, and then we're transitioning to an oddball Kushner-Locke era film from David DeCoteau, 1997's SHRIEKER!
Hosted by Jarrod Hornbeck and Steve Guntli
Theme song by Kyle Hornb...
Pew pew! This week, friend of the show Adam Torkel returns to talk about one of Charlie Band's earliest hits, the sci-fi thriller LASERBLAST from 1978! This film not only looms large in Band's pre-Full Moon catalogue, it also inspired one of the best "Mystery Science Theater 3000" episodes ever!
Hosted by Jarrod Hornbeck and Steve Guntli
Theme song by Kyle Hornbeck
Logo by Doug McCambridge
Email: puppetmasterscastlefreaks@gmail...
This week we're talking about AIMEE: THE VISITOR, a title that could refer to either our movie or our guest! Director and writer Aimee Mayumi Kuge (CANNIBAL MUKBANG) joins us for one of Full Moon's most recent entries, a film that introduces cinema's first AI-generated femme fatale!
Hosted by Jarrod Hornbeck and Steve Guntli
Theme song by Kyle Hornbeck
Logo by Doug McCambridge
Email: puppetmasterscastlefreaks@gmail.com
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Full Moon takes on the slasher genre for... the first time? Can that possibly be true? We'll dig into it with BLEED, Devin Hamilton's micro-budget SCREAM-a-like that has more twists than they know what to do with.
Hosted by Jarrod Hornbeck and Steve Guntli
Theme song by Kyle Hornbeck
Logo by Doug McCambridge
Email: puppetmasterscastlefreaks@gmail.com
Instagram/Threads: @puppetmasters_castlefreaks
YouTube: @PuppetMastersCastleF...
One of the quietly more controversial Full Moon films, the fun giant arachnid flick DEADLY STINGERS marked the contentious end of the Tempe era and sent the studio off on a new path.
Hosted by Jarrod Hornbeck and Steve Guntli
Theme song by Kyle Hornbeck
Logo by Doug McCambridge
Email: puppetmasterscastlefreaks@gmail.com
Instagram/Threads: @puppetmasters_castlefreaks
YouTube: @PuppetMastersCastleFreaks
Next week's episode: Ble...
We're going guestless this week for one of the most recent Full Moon films, DEATH STREAMER! This movie tries to bring vampire mythology into the modern age, and in the process helps kick off a new Full Moon sublabel, the sordid Pulp Noir!
Hosted by Jarrod Hornbeck and Steve Guntli
Theme song by Kyle Hornbeck
Logo by Doug McCambridge
Email: puppetmasterscastlefreaks@gmail.com
Instagram/Threads: @puppetmasters_castlefreaks
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Finally, the cinematic showdown between lingerie models and leprechauns that we all didn't know we needed! We're talking about UNLUCKY CHARMS, a deeply silly 2013 flick that is the only Full Moon movie, and maybe the only movie period, to be packaged with a novelty box of cereal. We're joined by the great Matt Orozco of Macabre Daily for this bizarre little confection.
Hosted by Jarrod Hornbeck and Steve Guntli
Theme song by Kyle...
2002's dark psychosexual thriller DEATHBED may have limited production values, but there's a smart and incisive story at the heart of it. Stuart Gordon saw it, too, and added it to his short-lived sublabel of STUART GORDON PRESENTS films, which aimed to bring Full Moon back to it's darker, nastier days. We're discussing the film with none other than Danny Draven, the director of this film plus many other Full Moon titles (HORRORVIS...
This is the big one, folks! Not only does this week mark our 100th episode, but we're also talking about one of the canonical best horror films ever made: Stuart Gordon's RE-ANIMATOR! If that wasn't enough of an honor, we are also joined by one of our favorite guests, horror historian Michael Gingold, and one of the stars of the film itself, the iconic Barbara Crampton! Why are you still reading this? Go listen! It's incredible!
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Perhaps the crowning achievement of the entire Moonbeam universe, Ted Nicolaou's DRAGONWORLD is as close to a legit blockbuster as Full Moon gets. We're chatting about this engaging kids movie with Lowell Greenblatt of Macabre Daily!
Hosted by Jarrod Hornbeck and Steve Guntli
Theme song by Kyle Hornbeck
Logo by Doug McCambridge
Email: puppetmasterscastlefreaks@gmail.com
Instagram/Threads: @puppetmasters_castlefreaks
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CRYPTZ follows an aspiring rap group into the world's grossest looking club, where they must fight against sexy stripper vampires in a film that is in no way like FROM DUSK TILL DAWN! We're joined this week by the amazing Xero Gravity from Blerdy Massacre, who helps us explore the history of low-budget Black horror and where CRYPTZ fits into that lineage.
Hosted by Jarrod Hornbeck and Steve Guntli
Theme song by Kyle Hornbeck
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The devilish doughboy is back for another exercise in low-taste gore gags with the impeccably titled GINGERDEAD MAN 3: SATURDAY NIGHT CLEAVER! Brad Hanson from Evolution of Horror has completed his internship at the Scientific Research Institute for the Study of Homicidal Baked Goods and is back to offer his specific expertise on just what makes this creepy cookie tick.
Hosted by Jarrod Hornbeck and Steve Guntli
Theme song by Kyl...
It's long overdue, but for this episode we're taking a step back and just enjoying a chill hang, talking about our lives and our various obsessions and the weird road that took us to the world of Full Moon.
Hosted by Jarrod Hornbeck and Steve Guntli
Theme song by Kyle Hornbeck
Logo by Doug McCambridge
Email: puppetmasterscastlefreaks@gmail.com
Instagram/Threads: @puppetmasters_castlefreaks
YouTube: @PuppetMastersCastleFreaks
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Crank up the sexy sax because we're heading back to Torchlight with what may be the sublabel's crowning artistic achievement, HUNTRESS: SPIRIT OF THE NIGHT! Erin Dawn of the Manic Movie Monday podcast returns to guide us through the sensuously-lit world of B-movie erotica with this tale of werewolves and literal bodice-ripping.
Hosted by Jarrod Hornbeck and Steve Guntli
Theme song by Kyle Hornbeck
Logo by Doug McCambridge
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It's a trio of films that seems specifically designed to torture one of your intrepid co-hosts, but William Butler's BABY OOPSIE trilogy has a few surprises in store. The singularly irritating Demonic Toy takes center stage this week for BABY OOPSIE, MURDERDOLLS, and BURN BABY BURN, three films adapted from a two-season web series. The titular Kelly of Kelly's Taboo Terrors joins us this week to honor one of her favorite horror ico...
ENEMY TERRITORY is the first film bold enough to ask: what if the guy who sang the GHOSTBUSTERS theme was in ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13? Turns out the answer is a pretty rad underground action flick. Returning guest Eric Walkuski joins us as we talk about this wild piece of late-80s urban paranoia, as a milquetoast insurance salesman and a cable repairman try to survive a night in a tenement building against a bloodthirsty gang.
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In the early 90s, "HOME ALONE rip-off" was a legit genre, and there's no way Charles Band was going to let a zeitgeist go unexploited. This week we're talking about the 1993 Moonbeam romp REMOTE, where a resourceful young kid and his remote control toys take on a trio of bumbling burglars. We're joined this week by one half of Video Villa Entertainment, Logan, who helps us explore this odd little subgenre of 90's nostalgia.
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