Vlad Păunescu

Production

Vlad Păunescu

Born

1953-04-12 (73)

Place of birth

Bucuresti, Romania

Known for

Production

Credits

41 titles

Known for

Mirrors poster
6.3

An ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.

Mirrors

2008

The Hard Corps poster
6.1

An Army veteran assembles a team of bodyguards to protect a former boxer. Complications arise when the boxer suspects his sister may be romantically involved with the bodyguard.

The Hard Corps

2005

Dark Angel: The Ascent poster
5.6

A bored female demon ventures to the surface world to punish the wicked before they enter her hellish domain.

Dark Angel: The Ascent

1994

Retro Puppetmaster poster
4.2

Andre Toulon, living a peaceful life as a puppeteer in pre-WWI Paris, encounters the renegade sorcerer Afzel, who has stolen the mysterious secrets of life from the dark god Sutekh.

Retro Puppetmaster

1999

Trancers 5: Sudden Deth poster
4.2

Jack Deth is back for one more round with the trancers. Jack must attempt to find his way home from the other-dimensional world of Orpheus, where magic works and the trancers were the ruling class (before Trancers IV, that is). Unfortunately, Jack's quest to find the mystical Tiamond in the Castle of Unrelenting Terror may be thwarted by the return of Caliban, king of the trancers who was thought dead.

Trancers 5: Sudden Deth

1994

Trancers: The Whole Dethly Affair poster
NR

Get ready for the ultimate "Trancers" experience with this newly re-edited "master cut" of Trancers 4 and Trancers 5, remixed into one mega movie! When the time-travelling TCL chamber goes haywire, perpetually surly supercop Jack Deth accidentally winds up in a deadly alternate dimension in which a new breed of the ghoulish Trancers have assumed complete control.

Trancers: The Whole Dethly Affair

2025

Film credits

Behind the camera

Mirrors poster
6.3

An ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.

Mirrors

2008

The Hard Corps poster
6.1

An Army veteran assembles a team of bodyguards to protect a former boxer. Complications arise when the boxer suspects his sister may be romantically involved with the bodyguard.

The Hard Corps

2005

Dark Angel: The Ascent poster
5.6

A bored female demon ventures to the surface world to punish the wicked before they enter her hellish domain.

Dark Angel: The Ascent

1994

Retro Puppetmaster poster
4.2

Andre Toulon, living a peaceful life as a puppeteer in pre-WWI Paris, encounters the renegade sorcerer Afzel, who has stolen the mysterious secrets of life from the dark god Sutekh.

Retro Puppetmaster

1999

Trancers 5: Sudden Deth poster
4.2

Jack Deth is back for one more round with the trancers. Jack must attempt to find his way home from the other-dimensional world of Orpheus, where magic works and the trancers were the ruling class (before Trancers IV, that is). Unfortunately, Jack's quest to find the mystical Tiamond in the Castle of Unrelenting Terror may be thwarted by the return of Caliban, king of the trancers who was thought dead.

Trancers 5: Sudden Deth

1994

Trancers: The Whole Dethly Affair poster
NR

Get ready for the ultimate "Trancers" experience with this newly re-edited "master cut" of Trancers 4 and Trancers 5, remixed into one mega movie! When the time-travelling TCL chamber goes haywire, perpetually surly supercop Jack Deth accidentally winds up in a deadly alternate dimension in which a new breed of the ghoulish Trancers have assumed complete control.

Trancers: The Whole Dethly Affair

2025

Trancers 4: Jack of Swords poster
4.8

Jack is now back in the future. He had since lost Lena, and finds out that he's lost his other wife Alice to none other than Harris. While heading out for another assignment, something goes awry with the TCL chamber. Jack finds himself in a whole new dimension. He also runs across a different version of trancers. These guys seem to be in control of this planet. Jack manages to assist a rebel group known as the "Tunnel Rats" crush the rule of the evil Lord Calaban.

Trancers 4: Jack of Swords

1994

Mandroid poster
4.7

In his hidden laboratory deep in Russia, Dr. Karl Zimmer has invented the Mandroid, a humanoid robot which follows the motions of a man in a special control suit. He has offered the invention to the USA, who have sent Smith and Wait from the CIA for inspection. However Zimmer's partner Drago has different plans, wants to sell Mandroid to the military. The night he tries to steal Mandroid, he becomes exposed to the highly toxic Superconn. But he can flee and won't give up on Mandroid, even though he's terribly disfigured.

Mandroid

1993

Attack Force poster
4.2

Marshall Lawson is the commander of an elite military unit. Marshall Lawson loses his strike-team in a cold-blooded and seemingly random attack, and he takes it upon himself to investigate the attack, with the help of his girlfriend Tia and his friend Dwayne.

Attack Force

2006

House of Voices poster
5.8

In 1958, in the French Alp, the young servant Anna Jurin arrives in Saint Ange Orphanage to work with Helena while the orphans moved to new families. Anna, who is secretly pregnant, meets the last orphan, Judith, left behind because of her mental problems, and they become closer when Anna find that Judith also hear voices and footsteps of children.

House of Voices

2004

Hideous! poster
5.3

Dr. Lorca, an eccentric collector of biological oddities - has just "acquired" his greatest specimen: a horrible mutant born of toxic sewage, but the creature's rightful owner wants it back. The collector's clash is cut short though, as the sickening specimen comes to life, re-animating an angry, oozing little army of ferocious freaks

Hideous!

1997

Frankenstein & the Werewolf Reborn! poster
4.3

Edited versions of both Frankenstein Reborn. and The Werewolf Reborn!.

Frankenstein & the Werewolf Reborn!

2005

Clockmaker poster
4.2

Fourteen-year-old Henry and his friends are about to change history. Sneaking into the apartment of an eccentric Clockmaker, the kids discover that the old man controls time for the entire world through an incredible array of magnificent timepieces and weird machines. When one of the curious kids accidentally pushes a wrong button and gets launched back in time, the space-time continuum is severely disrupted. As everything begins to change around them, the young adventurers must travel back in time to save their friend...and the future

Clockmaker

1998

Incubus poster
4.5

Stranded after a car accident, a medical school student and her friends try to find shelter - only to cross paths with a deranged killer.

Incubus

2006

The Primevals poster
6.1

Deep in the Himalayas, a group of sherpas kills a gigantic humanoid creature. Convinced that it is the legendary Yeti, Dr. Claire Collier organizes an expedition with her former student Matt Connor and hunter Rondo Montana, among others, to search for more specimens. But what awaits them is something that none of them could have imagined. A colorful fusion of real image and stop-motion that is reminiscent of fantastic films from the 1980s.

The Primevals

2023

Johnny Mysto: Boy Wizard poster
5.3

In this light-hearted fantasy, a talented young magician stumbles across an unusual ring and ends up in Camelot before King Arthur. It turns out the ring belongs to none other than Merlin.

Johnny Mysto: Boy Wizard

1997

Pu-239 poster
6.7

A worker at a Russian nuclear facility gets exposed to a lethal dose of radiation. In order to provide for his family, he steals some plutonium and sets out to sell it on Moscow's black market with the help of an incompetent criminal.

Pu-239

2006

Lurking Fear poster
4.9

The storm-swept and depopulated town of Leffert’s Corners has been terrorized for decades by grotesque creatures that breed in the depths beneath the local cemetery. A group of townspeople have hatched a last-ditch plan to destroy the ghoul-infested graveyard, but their mission is interrupted by the arrival of a band of violent thieves intent on retrieving money hidden in one of the graves.

Lurking Fear

1994

Witchouse poster
4.6

On Mayday 1998 in the town of Dunwich, Massachusetts, Elizabeth gathers together a group of specially selected friends for a rather odd party. It turns out that she is the descendent of the malevolent Lilith, who was burned at the stake precisely three hundred years ago. Now Elizabeth hopes to resurrect her dreadful ancestor and has a specific — and murderous — need for the guests she's chosen.

Witchouse

1999

Dragonworld: The Legend Continues poster
6.0

Yowler, the last dragon on Earth is in terrible danger. His arch enemy, the Dark Knight, has returned. Only young John McGowen can save him...

Dragonworld: The Legend Continues

1999

Demon in the Bottle poster
4.4

Four teenagers find a lost treasure buried by a 18th century pirate on a desert island. But they accidentally release the monster who lives inside a bottle, keeping the treasure.

Demon in the Bottle

1996

Prison of the Dead poster
3.0

Former high school classmates and amateur paranormal investigators reunite in their 20s, to spend the night in an old abandoned witches' prison. During a Ouija séance, the friends inadvertently unearth three very deceased – and very angry – executioners from their graves.

Prison of the Dead

2000

Oblivion poster
4.9

On another planet which resembles the Old West, a die-hard pacifist is forced to re-examine his ways after an evil alien bandit and his gang murder his estranged sheriff father, take over his home town, and threaten his friends.

Oblivion

1994

Silent Wedding poster
7.2

In a small village of Communist-era Romania a young couple wish to marry, but Joseph Stalin dies the night prior to their wedding ceremony forcing the bride and groom to marry in silence.

Silent Wedding

2008

Invisible: The Chronicles of Benjamin Knight poster
3.7

When a lab experiment goes wrong, Benjamin Knight is left invisible while his scientist friends trying to find a formula that will restore his visibility to last the rest of his life.

Invisible: The Chronicles of Benjamin Knight

1993

Lurid Tales: The Castle Queen poster
3.8

A modern young man takes a virtual reality trip back to 17th-century England where men were men and women were readily available.

Lurid Tales: The Castle Queen

1997

Huntress: Spirit of the Night poster
4.1

An architect discovers the animal inside her after she falls prey to an ancient curse on a visit to her Welsh homeland.

Huntress: Spirit of the Night

1995

Bloodlust: Subspecies III poster
5.4

Still in the thrall of the evil vampire Radu, Michelle yearns to be taught the skills of the vampire. Meanwhile, her sister Becky tries to free her from his evil clutches, and this time, she's brought some help.

Bloodlust: Subspecies III

1994

Magic in the Mirror poster
6.4

A little girl's imaginary friends come to life when she goes through her great-grandmother's antique mirror, a la Alice, after she sees it glowing.

Magic in the Mirror

1996

Bloodstone: Subspecies II poster
5.2

Continuing after the first "Subspecies", a woman who has just become a vampire tries to escape the evil vampire, Radu, who seeks her as his love interest. But she has taken the vampire family's bloodstone, and now Radu must find her to get it back. While her sister comes to Romania to save her soul. It might be too late....

Bloodstone: Subspecies II

1993

Oblivion 2: Backlash poster
4.3

In the alien-western world of Oblivion, a suave, yet lethal bounty hunter named Sweeney arrives to arrest the seductive outlaw Lash on multiple charges, including murder. Lash, who just "inherited" a mine of Derconium (the most valuable mineral in the universe) from Crowley in a game of cards, meets up with Redeye's brother, Jaggar, who wants the mine for himself to rule the galaxy. It's a fight over Lash between the sheriff of Oblivion, Jaggar, and Sweeney. But who will emerge victorious?

Oblivion 2: Backlash

1996

The Ladder poster
5.4

Based on true events, The Ladder follows the spiritual journey of Andrei, a sensitive, socially awkward young man who turns to acting in his search for true happiness. After the fall of communism, he is blinded by the illusion of freedom and democracy and faces a series of brutal events that have deeply marked Romania's recent history. Finding comfort in playing the part of Aliosa in a stage adaptation of The Karamazov Brothers, he becomes closer and closer to his character, gradually discovering the way to understanding divinity.

The Ladder

2021

The Ladder poster
5.4

Based on true events, The Ladder follows the spiritual journey of Andrei, a sensitive, socially awkward young man who turns to acting in his search for true happiness. After the fall of communism, he is blinded by the illusion of freedom and democracy and faces a series of brutal events that have deeply marked Romania's recent history. Finding comfort in playing the part of Aliosa in a stage adaptation of The Karamazov Brothers, he becomes closer and closer to his character, gradually discovering the way to understanding divinity.

The Ladder

2021

The Ladder poster
5.4

Based on true events, The Ladder follows the spiritual journey of Andrei, a sensitive, socially awkward young man who turns to acting in his search for true happiness. After the fall of communism, he is blinded by the illusion of freedom and democracy and faces a series of brutal events that have deeply marked Romania's recent history. Finding comfort in playing the part of Aliosa in a stage adaptation of The Karamazov Brothers, he becomes closer and closer to his character, gradually discovering the way to understanding divinity.

The Ladder

2021

Serpent's Lair poster
4.2

Tom is seduced by Lilith, a succubus who's out to drain him and destroy his marriage.

Serpent's Lair

1995

Alien Abduction: Intimate Secrets poster
4.5

Three beautiful women find themselves unwilling subjects of an alien scientist's experiments.

Alien Abduction: Intimate Secrets

1996

The Werewolf Reborn! poster
3.5

Fourteen-year-old Eleanor Crane goes to visit her uncle Peter in a remote Eastern European village, and receives an unexpectedly cold welcome from the villagers, who are plagued by a deadly curse - and from her uncle, who hides a deadly secret of his own.

The Werewolf Reborn!

1998

Subspecies 4: Bloodstorm poster
5.2

Vampire fledgling Michelle Morgan has escaped the grasp of her master Radu Vladislas. Found by a woman named Ana, she is taken to a hospital where a doctor claims to be able to cure her vampirism. Radu, recovering from the near-death delivered by Michelle and her friends, travels to Bucharest to follow his fledgling. He visits the vampire Ash's stronghold. Ash and his protege Serena plot to destroy Radu and employ the help of the humans, Ana and the Doctor.

Subspecies 4: Bloodstorm

1998

Witchouse II: Blood Coven poster
4.5

When an old house in a small town is razed to make way for a shopping mall, the crew unearths four unmarked graves. A professor from a nearby university is asked to find out who the bodies are, but when she and her students arrive in town and begin to ask questions, they discover that no one wants to talk to them or help them in any way.

Witchouse II: Blood Coven

2000

Petticoat Planet poster
3.9

The hard-luck life of Commander Steve Rogers takes a surprising turn for the better when his dilapidated spacecraft crashes in Puckerbush Gulch, a place populated solely by gun-toting, hard-drinking cowgirls. What appears ideal soon turns out to be slightly more complicated, as Rogers realizes the cons of being the only man in a town of sensual, lonely women.

Petticoat Planet

1996