Puppet Masters / Castle Freaks

This week, we take a moment to just catch up and have a casual chat about whatever. We provide updates on some new Full Moon news, chat about some of our unexpected favorite properties, and test Jarrod's recall of our past episodes. 
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: The Day Time Ended

This week, we're embarking on an exciting new direction for our show! Now, in addition to movies Charles Band directly produced or directed through Empire and Full Moon, we'll be folding in movies that appear on the Full Moon streaming service! This opens us up to a wide new range of oddities and classics. Which category does 1977's zombie-Nazis-at-sea movie SHOCK WAVES fall into? You'll have to listen to find out.  
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: Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go To College 

By the Codes of Kang, we declare the JOSH KIRBY... TIME WARRIOR saga continues this week! We're looking at the next two chapters of the kid-friendly Moonbeam serial: TRAPPED ON TOYWORLD and EGGS FROM 70 MILLION BC. The former finds our hero stranded on a deeply unsettling toy-themed world, while the latter explores the backstory of some of the series' important supporting characters... and also has googly-eyed space worms. 
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: Shock Waves

The hysteria concludes this week as we cover the remaining entries in Full Moon's best-selling movie ever, PREHYSTERIA! We're covering parts two and three of the tiny dino epic, as our cute, scaly buddies team up with a spoiled rich kid and a Scotland-obsessed little girl to wreak havoc and mend hearts. Author Lowell Greenblatt is back to chime in on this seminal Moonbeam series, and obviously there's lots of Freddy talk. 
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: Josh Kirby... Time Warrior 3 and 4

Author Meg Ripley joins us for this excursion into Area 51, and more importantly, into the psyche of one Mr. William Shatner. We're talking about GROOM LAKE, a completely forgotten 2002 passion project (vanity project?) written and directed by Shatner. We dig into the wild history of this film, which turned out to be one of the most challenging and expensive of Full Moon's early-aughts output, as well as dissect some of the film's more... interesting choices. 
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: PreHysteria! 2 / PreHysteria! 3

For this special episode, we sat down with filmmaker Sarah Appleton to discuss her upcoming documentary, FULL MOON RISING: THE CHARLES BAND STORY! Get the inside scoop on how this project came to fruition, plus plenty of on-set insights from the director herself! 
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: Groom Lake

Kraa! This week, we're saying goodbye to the Monster Island sublabel with the gleefully goofy romp KRAA! THE SEA MONSTER. And there's no one better to watch it with than Macabre Daily's delightful Sean O'Connor, returning to the show to discuss his love of kaiju, the acting debut of Alison Lohman, and the secret POWER RANGERS knockoff hidden in Full Moon's canon. 
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: Groom Lake

Giant monsters attack! We're talking about Full Moon's incredibly short-lived kaiju sublabel Monster Island this week with the 1996 giant monster movie ZARKORR! THE INVADER! We're thrilled to be joined by comic book creator Zander Cannon, author of the incredible KAIJUMAX, who lends his expertise on the subgenre and helps us determine if Full Moon should have stayed in the giant monster business or if tiny terrors should remain their comfort zone. 
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: Kraa! The Sea Monster 

We're joining up with Gorman Bechard and Carmine Capobianco one last time to talk about the sci-fi sex comedy GALACTIC GIGOLO! The creators of PSYCHOS IN LOVE and CEMETERY HIGH bring their trademark low-brow charm to this story of an alien vegetable who journeys to Earth in a quest to score with as many human women as possible. We're joined by author Nick Cato, who knew Bechard and Capobianco and has a rich history with this goofy little jaunt. 
Theme song by Kyle Hornbeck 
Logo by Doug McCambridge 
Email: puppetmasterscastlefreaks@gmail.com
Instagram/Threads: @puppetmasters_castlefreaks 
YouTube: @PuppetMastersCastleFreaks 
Next week's episode: Zarkorr! The Invader

It's the return of two of our favorite vulgar auteurs as we cover Tim Kincaid's THE OCCULTIST and Gorman Bechard's CEMETERY HIGH! Filmmaker Jed Shepherd (HOST) returns to talk about these two microbudget flicks, which have incredibly different approaches to their sleazy material, and with incredibly different outcomes. 
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: Galactic Gigolo