David DeCoteau

Directing

David DeCoteau

Born 1962-01-05 · Portland, Oregon, USA

David DeCoteau (born January 5, 1964) is an independent film director, a dual citizen of the US and Canada, who has worked professionally in the movie business since he was 18 years old. He got his start through a generous offer from movie legend Roger Corman, who hired him in 1980 as a production assistant at New World Pictures. In 1986, DeCoteau directed and produced his first feature film, Dreamaniac, for another generous film legend, Charles Band. DeCoteau has gone on to produce and direct over 200 motion pictures over the next several decades. His passion lies in the creation of popular genre programming made for global consumption. DeCoteau's experience in creating content in countries all over the world makes him a proven choice for exceptionally challenging projects. He resides in British Columbia, Canada and Hollywood, California.

Acting credits

The Disaster Artist poster
7.1

An aspiring actor in Hollywood meets an enigmatic stranger by the name of Tommy Wiseau, the meeting leads the actor down a path nobody could have predicted; creating the worst movie ever made.

The Disaster Artist

2017

Zombie Cop poster
3.5

During a drug raid, a narcotics officer confronts a strange Voodoo priest named Dr. Death, who is chanting. The officer and the priest shoot it out and they both wind up dead. Later, the two rise from their graves and return to the land of the living as zombies. Dr. Death is resurrected with a new mission in mind, to take over the world. The "zombie" cop enlists the aid of his old police buddies to stop the mad priest.

Zombie Cop

1991

I Am Divine poster
7.3

Harris Glenn Milstead, aka Divine (1945-1988) was the ultimate outsider turned underground hero. Spitting in the face of the status quos of body image, gender identity, sexuality, and preconceived notions of beauty, Divine succeeded in becoming an internationally recognized icon, recording artist, and character actor of stage and screen. Glenn went from the often-mocked, schoolyard fat kid to underdog royalty, standing up for millions of gay men and women, drag queens and punk rockers, and countless other socially ostracized misfits and freaks. With a completely committed in-your-face style, he blurred the line between performer and personality, and revolutionized pop culture.

I Am Divine

2014

Crash and Burn poster
4.3

Unicom is a powerful organization overseeing most of the world after its economic collapse. They have banned computers and robots in an attempt to insure "life, liberty, and the pursuit of economic stability". When a Unicom Synth robot infiltrates a southwest TV station and kills the manager, a revolutionary against the gestapo-like corporation, a lowly Unicom delivery man must help the rest of the station survive through the incoming "thermal storm".

Crash and Burn

1990

Trophy Heads poster
4.6

An obsessed fan and his mother kidnap former 'scream queens' and force them to reenact their famous film roles...with deadly results.

Trophy Heads

2014

Evil Bong: High-5! poster
2.7

With Larnell, Sarah Leigh, Rabbit, Velicity and a lobotomized Gingerdead Man trapped in her dastardly web of weed, the Bong World, for good, EeBee the Evil Bong once more sets about her plan for world domination.

Evil Bong: High-5!

2016

Gingerdead Man 2: The Passion of the Crust poster
4.5

The horrifying yet delicious and chewy Gingerdead Man causes murder and mayhem on the set of a horrible low budget movie set. It will take the determination of the studio's young new owner to save both his company and well as the lives of his young new friends. Including a terminally ill young boy whose final wish it was to meet the studios stars - The Tiny Terrors.

Gingerdead Man 2: The Passion of the Crust

2008

Gingerdead Man 2: The Passion of the Crust poster
4.5

The horrifying yet delicious and chewy Gingerdead Man causes murder and mayhem on the set of a horrible low budget movie set. It will take the determination of the studio's young new owner to save both his company and well as the lives of his young new friends. Including a terminally ill young boy whose final wish it was to meet the studios stars - The Tiny Terrors.

Gingerdead Man 2: The Passion of the Crust

2008

Robot Ninja poster
4.7

A scientist helps a comic-book artist to become the superhero he has created in order to battle a vicious gang of rapists.

Robot Ninja

1989

Puppet Master: Axis Termination poster
4.9

To stop the Third Reich and the Nazi war machine from winning World War II and affecting the outcome of the free world, Toulon's indestructible puppets join forces with the masters of psychic powers.

Puppet Master: Axis Termination

2017

Evil Bong 420 poster
3.9

Rabbit has escaped the Evil Bong’s World of Weed, and has opened a topless bowling alley. When his old friends, Larnell and Sarah Leigh stop by to help him celebrate his wacky new business venture, the Evil Bong gets hot on his trail.

Evil Bong 420

2015

Tales of the Uncanny poster
7.0

A detailed look at the history of horror anthology films.

Tales of the Uncanny

2020

Leeches! poster
3.6

When a crop of doped-up athletes from the Lakecrest College swim team dive into the campus lake to blow off some steam, the bloodsucking leeches below the surface undergo a stunning transformation. After ingesting small amounts of the swimmers' steroid-laced blood, the slimy creatures grow to unusual sizes and set out to sink their teeth into an unsuspecting student population.

Leeches!

2003

Celluloid Wizards in the Video Wasteland: The Saga of Empire Pictures poster
NR

The official feature-length documentary about the rise and fall of Charles Band's legendary Empire Pictures studio.

Celluloid Wizards in the Video Wasteland: The Saga of Empire Pictures

Weedjies! Halloweed Night poster
5.2

When a midnight scavenger hunt for a rare bud of weed brings a group of party-hungry stoners to a haunted hotel, they open a portal and unleash a group of ghastly hysterical creatures that has only one mission: party ‘till you die.

Weedjies! Halloweed Night

2019

Tales from the Lumber Yard: The Making of Galaxy of Terror poster
8.3

Behind the scenes of Roger Corman's Galaxy of Terror.

Tales from the Lumber Yard: The Making of Galaxy of Terror

2010

Deadly Ten: Meet the Directors poster
2.0

Meet the ‘Deadly Ten’ directors! DEADLY TEN is Full Moon's daring new experiment in interactive feature filmmaking. Ten movies, shot all over the world back-to-back, streamed LIVE from the set ONLY at the DEADLY TEN website. In this exclusive video, you'll get the chance to meet all 10 DEADLY TEN directors and get a taste of what wild, weird entertainment awaits you!

Deadly Ten: Meet the Directors

2019

Hollywood Mortuary poster
4.5

Framed by interviews with real life celebrities, Hollywood Mortuary tells the tale of a horror make-up artist who, in 1941 Hollywood, uses voodoo to resurrect two rival horror stars (thinly disguised versions of Karloff and Lugosi) from the dead to help revive his fading career.

Hollywood Mortuary

1998

Screaming in High Heels: The Rise & Fall of the Scream Queen Era poster
6.7

Three girls living in Los Angeles, CA in the 1980s found cult fame when they "accidentally" transitioned from models to B-movie actresses, coinciding with the major direct-to-video horror film boom of the era. Known as "The Terrifying Trio," Linnea Quigley (The Return of the Living Dead), Brinke Stevens (The Slumber Party Massacre) and Michelle Bauer (The Tomb), headlined upwards of ten films per year, fending off men in rubber monster suits, pubescent teenage boys, and deadly showers. They joined together in campy cult films like Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-a-Rama (1988) and Nightmare Sisters (1987). They traveled all over the world, met President Reagan, and built mini-empires of trading cards, comic books, and model kits. Then it all came crashing down. This documentary remembers these actresses - and their most common collaborators - on how smart they were to play stupid

Screaming in High Heels: The Rise & Fall of the Scream Queen Era

2011

Shock Cinema: Volume One poster
4.0

An hour-long documentary featuring interviews with various filmmakers who've made a name in the direct-to-video market.

Shock Cinema: Volume One

1991

Videozone: The Making of "Puppet Master III" poster
6.0

Join the cast and crew for a making of featurette on the movie about a puppeteer's journey to bring inanimate objects to life during World War II.

Videozone: The Making of "Puppet Master III"

1991

Shock Cinema: Volume Four poster
8.0

A documentary about special makeup effects on low budget horror films. Includes behind-the-scenes footage from Murder Weapon (1989), Robot Ninja (1989), Ghoul School (1990) and Skinned Alive (1990).

Shock Cinema: Volume Four

1991

Purgatory: Entering John Carpenter's 'Escape From New York' poster
2.0

A brand new retrospective documentary produced by Ballyhoo Motion Pictures and featuring interviews with writer Nick Castle, cinematographer Dean Cundey, composer Alan Howarth, production designer Joe Alves, special visual effects artist/model maker Gene Rizzardi, production assistant David De Coteau, photographer Kim Gottleib-Walker, Carpenter biographer John Muir, visual effects historian Justin Humphreys, and music historian Daniel Schweiger.

Purgatory: Entering John Carpenter's 'Escape From New York'

2018

Invasion of the Scream Queens poster
8.8

Women who have made a career out of starring in the B horror and science fiction genres are interviewed, and clips and trailers from their films are shown.

Invasion of the Scream Queens

1992

Behind the camera

The Wrong Teacher poster
5.6

Successful teacher and author Charlotte Hansen has a passionate, one-night stand with a younger man, Chris. She later finds out that he is 18 years old and a student at her high school. Now, Chris will stop at nothing to have her for himself.

The Wrong Teacher

2018

The Wrong Teacher poster
5.6

Successful teacher and author Charlotte Hansen has a passionate, one-night stand with a younger man, Chris. She later finds out that he is 18 years old and a student at her high school. Now, Chris will stop at nothing to have her for himself.

The Wrong Teacher

2018

The Wrong Stepmother poster
6.8

Michael, who lost his wife a few years back, has been use to being a single dad to his two daughters until his new girlfriend Maddie comes along.

The Wrong Stepmother

2019

The Wrong Stepmother poster
6.8

Michael, who lost his wife a few years back, has been use to being a single dad to his two daughters until his new girlfriend Maddie comes along.

The Wrong Stepmother

2019

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

The Wrong Baby Daddy poster
10.0

Lila’s life finally feels complete when she starts a dream job with her close friend Robin, falls into a promising romance with Mark, and discovers she’s pregnant. But everything shifts when Julia, Mark’s ex-wife, reappears the moment she learns about the baby. At first, Julia’s involvement seems harmless, even polite, until she begins showing up uninvited, inserting herself into every corner of Lila’s new life. As Julia’s presence grows more intrusive and her intentions more unsettling, Lila realizes she may be fighting to protect far more than just her future. Soon, what began as a perfect new chapter becomes a tense battle of boundaries, obsession, and survival.

The Wrong Baby Daddy

2026

A Neighbor to Die For poster
NR

To help complete her latest novel, Courtney rents a nearby house, only to be greeted by Jon and Jodie, two strangers who claim to be caretakers in the owner's absence. As Courtney settles in, she can't shake the feeling that something is terribly off.

A Neighbor to Die For

2026

Puppet Master II poster
6.0

A new team of paranormal researchers has come to the hotel to investigate its murder-soaked past; the puppets -- led by a new member, Torch -- shed some light on the matter, as they tunnel, burn, strangle and hook to survive.

Puppet Master II

1990

Edgar Allan Poe's House of Usher poster
3.2

Victor Reynolds arrives at the notorious House of Usher, whereupon he is greeted by old acquaintances Roderick and Madeline Usher and their servant, Markus. As Victor uncovers more about the history of the house and the disappearances of those that entered it previously, he begins to realize that he is in mortal danger.

Edgar Allan Poe's House of Usher

2008

Edgar Allan Poe's House of Usher poster
3.2

Victor Reynolds arrives at the notorious House of Usher, whereupon he is greeted by old acquaintances Roderick and Madeline Usher and their servant, Markus. As Victor uncovers more about the history of the house and the disappearances of those that entered it previously, he begins to realize that he is in mortal danger.

Edgar Allan Poe's House of Usher

2008

Skeletons poster
4.2

A heart attack moves a Pulitzer winning journalist to leave NY for the peace of a small New England town, but he soon finds himself pulled into a case of a man accused of killing his gay lover with the blade of a shovel. Wanting to keep the case quiet, the town turns against the journalist and his family when he begins digging into its secrets, until finally the accused man is found hanging in his cell and the truth comes out about more than just the killing.

Skeletons

1997

Witchouse poster
4.8

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 a malevolent witch named 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 has chosen

Witchouse

1999

Charles Band's Puppet Master: Axis of Evil poster
4.6

Following the murder of Andre Toulon by Nazi assassins during the height of World War II, a young Danny Coogan finds his crate of mysterious puppets, and discovers their plan to attack a secret American manufacturing plant.

Charles Band's Puppet Master: Axis of Evil

2010

A Talking Cat!?! poster
3.1

A mysterious talking cat uses its powers of communication to enrich the lives of two different families, and bring them together.

A Talking Cat!?!

2013

A Talking Cat!?! poster
3.1

A mysterious talking cat uses its powers of communication to enrich the lives of two different families, and bring them together.

A Talking Cat!?!

2013

The Wrong High School Sweetheart poster
5.9

When Danielle reunites with her high school boyfriend, she is shocked to learn how far he's willing to go to keep everything alive.

The Wrong High School Sweetheart

2022

The Wrong Housemaid poster
6.0

After vanishing from her violent husband's grasp ten years ago, Mona thought she had finally secured a peaceful new life for herself and her teenage daughter, Denise, behind carefully crafted new identities. But their fragile safety shatters when a seemingly harmless housemaid enters their home and begins manipulating their lives with chilling precision.

The Wrong Housemaid

2026

Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge poster
6.4

After hearing that mystical toymaker Andre Toulon has managed to create a troupe of sentient, living puppets, Nazi underling Dr. Hess sets his sights on exploiting Toulon's powers for the glory of the Reich.

Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge

1992

Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge poster
6.4

After hearing that mystical toymaker Andre Toulon has managed to create a troupe of sentient, living puppets, Nazi underling Dr. Hess sets his sights on exploiting Toulon's powers for the glory of the Reich.

Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge

1992

Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven poster
2.6

In this update to Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale, it's time for the biggest gay party of the year. Unfortunately, the host has chosen the site of the infamous Ravenswood Massacre to stage his blowout gala, where a mass murder happened fifty years ago to the night. The boozie revelry is cut short when a Raven-masked killer crashes the party, intent on repeating the bloody history. As the unknown killer picks the guests off, old grudges resurface among friends, and new suspicions emerge.

Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven

2007

Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven poster
2.6

In this update to Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale, it's time for the biggest gay party of the year. Unfortunately, the host has chosen the site of the infamous Ravenswood Massacre to stage his blowout gala, where a mass murder happened fifty years ago to the night. The boozie revelry is cut short when a Raven-masked killer crashes the party, intent on repeating the bloody history. As the unknown killer picks the guests off, old grudges resurface among friends, and new suspicions emerge.

Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven

2007

Creepozoids poster
4.5

Five Army deserters wander the post-apocalyptic, post-industrial LA landscape seeking shelter from an increasingly toxic environment and poisonous rain.

Creepozoids

1987

Creepozoids poster
4.5

Five Army deserters wander the post-apocalyptic, post-industrial LA landscape seeking shelter from an increasingly toxic environment and poisonous rain.

Creepozoids

1987

Creepozoids poster
4.5

Five Army deserters wander the post-apocalyptic, post-industrial LA landscape seeking shelter from an increasingly toxic environment and poisonous rain.

Creepozoids

1987