David Schmoeller

Directing

David Schmoeller

Born

1947-12-08 (78)

Place of birth

Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

43 titles

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 2 titles

1990s · 4 titles

Behind the camera

Puppetmaster poster
5.8

After being contacted by their mysterious former colleague, four psychics arrive at a secluded hotel where they are stalked by a group of murderous puppets.

Puppetmaster

1989

Puppetmaster poster
5.8

After being contacted by their mysterious former colleague, four psychics arrive at a secluded hotel where they are stalked by a group of murderous puppets.

Puppetmaster

1989

Crawlspace poster
5.4

A man who runs an apartment house for women is the demented son of a Nazi surgeon who has the house equipped with secret passageways, hidden rooms and torture and murder devices.

Crawlspace

1986

Crawlspace poster
5.4

A man who runs an apartment house for women is the demented son of a Nazi surgeon who has the house equipped with secret passageways, hidden rooms and torture and murder devices.

Crawlspace

1986

Tourist Trap poster
6.1

After their car breaks down, a group of young travelers find themselves stranded at a roadside museum run by the enigmatic Mr. Slausen and populated by his collection of life-like wax mannequins.

Tourist Trap

1979

Tourist Trap poster
6.1

After their car breaks down, a group of young travelers find themselves stranded at a roadside museum run by the enigmatic Mr. Slausen and populated by his collection of life-like wax mannequins.

Tourist Trap

1979

Ghost Town poster
5.2

Deputy Langley tracks a kidnapped girl to an abandoned ghost town. However, the town is not abandoned, but haunted by the spirits of an outlaw, Devlin, and his gang, who hold the equally deceased townspeople hostage until the outlaws can be killed by a lawman.

Ghost Town

1988

Netherworld poster
3.8

A young man arrives at his father's mansion in Louisiana to discover that a secretive cult is using winged creatures to raise the dead to do their bidding.

Netherworld

1992

Netherworld poster
3.8

A young man arrives at his father's mansion in Louisiana to discover that a secretive cult is using winged creatures to raise the dead to do their bidding.

Netherworld

1992

The Seduction poster
5.8

A beautiful newscaster is stalked and tormented by a photographer obsessed with her beauty.

The Seduction

1982

The Seduction poster
5.8

A beautiful newscaster is stalked and tormented by a photographer obsessed with her beauty.

The Seduction

1982

The Day Time Ended poster
3.7

Deep in the desert, a rural American family is forced to endure a night of inter-dimensional, extra terrestrial terror when a UFO appears over their home.

The Day Time Ended

1980

Bunker of Blood Chapter 3: Death Heads: Brain Drain poster
3.8

The third chapter in the splat-tastic horror 'greatest hits' film series spotlighting some of Full Moon's strangest and sickest sequences framed by an all new narrative, This time, we follow the further adventures of a masochistic drifter trapped in the lair of "The Gore Collector," a sadistic curator of carnage who was has chosen the drifter to be the heir to take over his evil operation.

Bunker of Blood Chapter 3: Death Heads: Brain Drain

2018

Puppet Master: Blitzkrieg Massacre poster
5.0

In an unknown dystopian future, a drifter with an unusually high tolerance to pain is held captive in a horrific hospital by The Circle of Psycho Surgeons, a clandestine crew of medical deviants experimenting with human suffering. Suddenly, our shackled hero hears the call of "The Gore Collector," a sadistic curator of carnage who is well past his prime and now seeks an heir to take over his evil operation. Escaping from the lurid lab, the drifter enters the underground lair of The Gore Collector and there, the perverse programmer pops in a vile videotape and begins the process of trying to warp the man's mind with the goriest moments from Full Moon's most iconic film franchise.

Puppet Master: Blitzkrieg Massacre

2018

Catacombs poster
4.9

In the 17th century, an order of monks in Italy capture and entomb a demon that has possessed a member of their group. 400 years later, school teacher Elizabeth Magrino visits the monastery in order to do some research. What she and the current monks do not realize is that the evil hiding within the catacombs has unwittingly been released.

Catacombs

1988

The Secret Kingdom poster
5.3

Three kids discover a tiny kingdom beneath their kitchen sink and are drawn inside, becoming involved with the miniature world's civil war.

The Secret Kingdom

1998

Carnage Collection: Vicious Violence & Vengeance poster
NR

Take a ride through a nearly half century of vintage Full Moon weirdness in this latest episode of our "Carnage Collection". See gory, intense and absurd clips from faves like TOURIST TRAP, TROPHY HEADS, HEAD OF THE FAMILY and more.

Carnage Collection: Vicious Violence & Vengeance

2023

Critters, Carnivores and Creatures poster
3.0

Gather the family 'round the home screen for this collection of some of Moonbeams coolest and creepiest monsters. It's the greatest moments from some of our gnarliest kid-flicks all crushed together.

Critters, Carnivores and Creatures

2023

Thor at the Bus Stop poster
7.7

"Thor at the Bus Stop" is a comedy that begins with Thor, the Norse God of Lightning, as he makes his first journey through a suburban neighborhood on the day he will die fighting to save the word--and nobody cares. Thor starts a chain reaction of interweaving story-lines packed with zany characters and themes about goodness and the power of cool.

Thor at the Bus Stop

2009

The Arrival poster
4.2

An old man, who has been near a fallen meteor, starts to get younger and younger, with a terrible thirst for blood.

The Arrival

1991

Puppet Master: Blitzkrieg Massacre poster
NR

In an unknown dystopian future, a drifter with an unusually high tolerance to pain is held captive in a horrific hospital by The Circle of Psycho Surgeons, a clandestine crew of medical deviants experimenting with human suffering. Suddenly, our shackled hero hears the call of "The Gore Collector," a sadistic curator of carnage who is well past his prime and now seeks an heir to take over his evil operation. Escaping from the lurid lab, the drifter enters the underground lair of The Gore Collector and there, the perverse programmer pops in a vile videotape and begins the process of trying to warp the man's mind with the goriest moments from Full Moon's most iconic film franchise.

Puppet Master: Blitzkrieg Massacre

2018

Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 1 poster
NR

Tromadance is the first film festival wholeheartedly devoted to filmmakers and fans. Unlike other film festivals, Tromadance does not charge filmmakers to submit their films. Entrance to all screenings is free and open to the public. Also, there are no VIP reservations or preferential treatment regarding films, panels or parties of any kind given. This DVD contains the best short films from the first few Tromadance festivals, including David Schmoeller's "Please Kill Mr. Kinski," Carey Burtt's "The Psychotic Odyssey of Richard Chase," Lee Demarbre's "Harry Knuckles and the Treasure of the Aztec Mummy," Steve Herold's "H.R. Pukenshette," Barry Norman's "Deadbeats" and others.

Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 1

2002

Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 1 poster
NR

Tromadance is the first film festival wholeheartedly devoted to filmmakers and fans. Unlike other film festivals, Tromadance does not charge filmmakers to submit their films. Entrance to all screenings is free and open to the public. Also, there are no VIP reservations or preferential treatment regarding films, panels or parties of any kind given. This DVD contains the best short films from the first few Tromadance festivals, including David Schmoeller's "Please Kill Mr. Kinski," Carey Burtt's "The Psychotic Odyssey of Richard Chase," Lee Demarbre's "Harry Knuckles and the Treasure of the Aztec Mummy," Steve Herold's "H.R. Pukenshette," Barry Norman's "Deadbeats" and others.

Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 1

2002

No artwork available
6.5

In 1986, director David Schmoeller worked with notoriously eccentric and tantrum-prone actor Klaus Kinski on horror triller Crawlspace. Now, Schmoeller talks about this shoot and how it almost ended with crew lynching the actor.

Please Kill Mr. Kinski

1999

Possessed poster
3.3

Three gothic stories regarding witchcraft and demonic possession: an evil witch returns to finish off the descendants of the witch hunters who burned her 300 years earlier; a demon disguised as a sweet old woman traps boarders' souls inside a book of paper dolls; and a man, haunted by his dead father's ghost, explores the dark and enticing world of black magic.

Possessed

2005

Possessed poster
3.3

Three gothic stories regarding witchcraft and demonic possession: an evil witch returns to finish off the descendants of the witch hunters who burned her 300 years earlier; a demon disguised as a sweet old woman traps boarders' souls inside a book of paper dolls; and a man, haunted by his dead father's ghost, explores the dark and enticing world of black magic.

Possessed

2005

Search for the Jewel of Polaris: Mysterious Museum poster
7.6

While visiting a museum, two siblings Ben and Kim a fierce electrical storm creates a passage between the real world and worlds within the paintings. They are magically whisked through time to the 1600's and find they must square off against a wicked magician and also locate a valuable jewel in order to return to the present day.

Search for the Jewel of Polaris: Mysterious Museum

1999

No artwork available
NR

The dead shall inherit the Earth in this trilogy of twisted tales that will strip the flesh from your bones and put you in an early grave. In "Unborn on the Bayou", the heir to a Louisiana plantation uncovers his father's macabre legacy of debauchery and Voodoo magic in a local bordello of bird-worshipping beauties. Then, in "Ghouls Night Out", the dead walk among us, and just as in life, they return to the places they love. In this case, it's the local nude bar. Finally, in "Family Plot", the world recovers from a zombie plague, and a hunt for the Mortense family fortune digs up more than buried treasure.

Zombie Bloodlines

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Little Monsters poster
4.4

James and Carl were only 10 years old when they kidnapped and murdered 3 year old David McClendon. They were caught, tried, convicted and placed in separate juvenile facilities. At 18-years old, both are given new names and released back into society - much to the horror of the nation. They can have no contact with each other or with their past friends or relatives. The story follows the lives of these two boys as they try to start over, escape the past and survive the growing outcry following their release.

Little Monsters

2012

Little Monsters poster
4.4

James and Carl were only 10 years old when they kidnapped and murdered 3 year old David McClendon. They were caught, tried, convicted and placed in separate juvenile facilities. At 18-years old, both are given new names and released back into society - much to the horror of the nation. They can have no contact with each other or with their past friends or relatives. The story follows the lives of these two boys as they try to start over, escape the past and survive the growing outcry following their release.

Little Monsters

2012

Little Monsters poster
4.4

James and Carl were only 10 years old when they kidnapped and murdered 3 year old David McClendon. They were caught, tried, convicted and placed in separate juvenile facilities. At 18-years old, both are given new names and released back into society - much to the horror of the nation. They can have no contact with each other or with their past friends or relatives. The story follows the lives of these two boys as they try to start over, escape the past and survive the growing outcry following their release.

Little Monsters

2012

The Spider Will Kill You poster
5.4

Director David Schmoeller's thesis film about a blind man who lives alone in a theater attic. He falls in love with a strange female mannequin who turns out to be quite animated and deadly.

The Spider Will Kill You

1976