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-nai...

Actor Andrew Divoff 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...

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...

Our guest this week is real deal Full Moon royalty: the great Tim Thomerson! Tim started his career in show business as a character actor and stand up comedian doing the club circuit in LA, before appearing in films and television like the meta slasher classic FADE TO BLACK, at least one episode ...

This week's FREAKSHOW guest's most famous contribution to culture might be his portrayal of Norm, the sardonic barfly in the hit sitcom CHEERS, but there's much more to George Wendt than meets the beer stein! As an actor, he has worked with talent like Michael Keaton and Ron Howard in the film GU...

Charlie's guest this week first came to our collective attention when he showed kindness to Carrie White and suffered gravely for it in Brian De Palma's 1976 masterpiece CARRIE. But that was only the beginning of actor and musician William Katt's professional journey. After appearing as the Sunda...

Dee Wallace joins Charlie on the Freakshow! 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 fami...

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 M...

Charles Band's beloved podcast returns for a second season and we're kicking it off with an interview with father/daughter 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 makin...

This week, for its FIRST ass-kicking episode, Charlie welcomes his old pal, the iconic director and composer John Carpenter (HALLOWEEN, THE THING, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK) for an intimate, revealing, relaxed and often HILARIOUS candid conversation. Some folks might not know that Carpenter - under th...

This week Charlie welcomes John Logan, the Oscar nominated screenwriter responsible for films like GLADIATOR, ALIEN: COVENANT, THE AVIATOR, SKYFALL and TV's PENNY DREADFUL who will also be making his directorial debut later this year in Blumhouse's THEY/THEM.

Joining John is performer Diana Pri...

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 C...

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 ...

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!

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 Butche...

This week Charlie welcomes actor, producer, comedian, performer, best-selling author and horror culture icon Cassandra Peterson aka Elvira, Mistress of the Dark! Charlie and Cassandra have a long history collaborating together and their lives have crossed over in many surprising ways; this vibran...

Last week's conversation with Cassandra Peterson was just so awesome and so packed with stuff that a single episode just couldn't contain it. We had to go big. So with that, in this second installment of our killer two-part chat, the Queen of Halloween and Charles Band talk about the early days o...

The world of strange cinema has lost one of its founding fathers, a Titan of independent film, the great Roger Corman. A restless innovator, maverick, artist, intellectual and the best damn counterculture ringmaster of all time. Roger passed on May 9th at the age of 98 and to do our part to honou...

Charlie welcomes actress, producer and horror movie icon Barbara Crampton to the show. Barbara first found 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,...

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!

Charlie's recent chat with the one and only horror host hero Joe Bob Briggs was so awesome and epic we had to split it into two pulse-pounding parts! Here's the second round of redneck riotousness!

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 mainstr...

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...

This week Charlie welcomes award-winning screenwriter and noted film historian and preservationist Larry Karaszewski to the show. Along with longtime writing partner Scott Alexander, Larry co-penned such acclaimed pictures as Tim Burton's ED WOOD and BIG EYES; Milos Foreman's THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY...