Charles Band

Have you guys been betrayed by Tubi? Our first betrayal was watching one of Fred's bikini movies on Tubi, which, of course, had most of its sex scenes removed and was pared down to a very lean 34 minutes.

I've heard that because I, you know, I was listening to Charles Band's podcast and he says that certain of these streaming apps won't take nudity.

Really? Even Tubi?

I don't see how...

Okay.

This is directed and written by Charles Band before he started Full Moon Entertainment, which pretty much became the Puppet Master Studio.

Puppet Master was kind of the saw of its day, but without the effects.

It was kind of, well, or Freddy Krueger ripoff, whatever.

But Parasite is one of Charles Band's 3D movies that he did before he started Full Moon Entertainment.

So it's done for Embassy Studios.

It's set in the future, and it's about kind of low-budget...

But if I remember this one, this is kind of a futuristic, and there's some good gore effects, and of course...

the 3D, and I believe Charles Band produced this.

Might have even directed it.

I don't remember quite off the top of my head.

We could try to poke fun at stuff.

Or we can try to be more serious and approach the movies with a more historical background and behind the scenes and try to highlight things about the movie that we think work and talk about the films as they pertain to that particular era of Charles band's life and work, which I think ultimately was the right move.

I think if we had tried to be, you know, two guys who are just riffing on movies that we are worth, we think suck on Mike.

I doubt we'd be here talking on episode 200.

I'm really not hyped about the heavy use of AI in the recent Full Moon movies.

I'm really not hyped about the transition over to vertical entertainment, which I think is just the stupidest possible thing to exist.

That stuff like worries me because I've said it multiple times like Charles band tends to be The earliest person to the party like with with pop culture trends, you know, he was way early to VHS He was way early to DVD.

He was way early to streaming So he he tends to be a bellwether of kind of where these things are gonna go and the fact that he's jumping on board with AI so fervently worries me about where we're gonna go in the next couple years and

He was in an Uncle Sam jam, kids.

So what winds up happening is... not long after this um ronald mcdowell was in the charles band movie laser blast now charles band is a movie director a movie producer a home video distributor a at one time he owned a video store before rental was even a thing it was just a boutique store he had two stores called wizard of vid one in beverly hills and one in the valley on ventura boulevard as a matter of fact in his autobiography what is it called puppet master i have it right here in front of me let me see It is called, Charles Band's autobiography is called Confessions of a Puppet Master, a Hollywood memoir of ghouls, guts, and what does it say? Gonzo filmmaking? Here's the thing.

Charles Band seems like a carny.

And even beyond a carny.

Maybe even worse than a carny.

But, you know, Ghoulies is his.

Dollman, you know, all this stuff.

Reanimator, because he was doing, he had what, Charles Band Productions.