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Joe Castro

Born May 17, 1970 · San Antonio, Texas, USA (age 56)

Director, Producer, and Special Effects Artist, Joe Castro was born in San Antonio, Texas and began his career at age 15 when he was hired to create special effects make-up for a PBS affiliate and graduated to writing and directing his own feature films. Altogether, Joe has won over 46 awards in producing, directing, and creating special effects. Since teaming with his partner, Steven Escobar, Cas…

Known For

Appetite for Sin

Appetite for Sin · 2022

Appetite for Sin

A Horror Feature Film about the story of women vampires walking among the living in Los Angeles. The lead Vampire, Sarah Hase, is searching for the most current Vampire Killer, Jeffery Nelson. Sarah, who is also an undercover FBI agent, wants to catch him in the act and have him live in jail for eternity. Another Vampire, Joan Rosen, is also out to get him, but wants to instantly kill him. Who will get to Jeffery Nelson first? Sarah Hase or Joan Rosen?

Wishmaster: The Prophecy Fulfilled

Wishmaster: The Prophecy Fulfilled · 2002

Wishmaster: The Prophecy Fulfilled

MovieHorrorFantasy

The unspeakable evil of the soul-devouring djinn rises again in this fourth electrifying installment of the unstoppable Wishmaster horror legacy! But now, as a host of new victims see their most nightmarish wishes come true, the world faces the ultimate demonic terror: an onslaught of multiple djinns hell-bent on destroying everything in their path!

Iron Sky: The Coming Race

Iron Sky: The Coming Race · 2019

Iron Sky: The Coming Race

MovieActionComedy

29 years after the events of Iron Sky, the former Nazi Moonbase has become the last refuge of mankind. Earth was devastated by a nuclear war, but buried deep under the wasteland lies a power that could save the last of humanity - or destroy it once and for all. An old enemy leads our heroes on an adventure into the Hollow Earth. To save humanity, they must battle the Vril, an ancient shapeshifting reptilian race, and their army of dinosaurs.

Evil Toons

Evil Toons · 1992

MovieComedyHorror

Four sexy young girls are to clean an old house for the new owners. They get delivered an old book full of magic incantations, and while reading it they accidentally bring a cartoon character to life. The cartoon character likes the blood of young girls...

Another Gay Movie

Another Gay Movie · 2006

Another Gay Movie

MovieComedyRomance

Andy is your typical All-American eighteen-year-old gay virgin. Like everyone else, he's dying to have sex. Totally out of the closet and mad-crazy horny, this naïve high school senior is caught in that awkward vortex between child and adult. Much to the dismay of his mom (who wonders why all her carrots and cucumbers keep disappearing), Andy spends much of his private time practicing for the big moment when he'll finally take the plunge.

Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild!

Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild! · 2008

Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild!

MovieComedyRomance

Four university students head to Florida for spring break and enroll in a contest to see who can get the most sexual partners.

Hexatic Phase

Hexatic Phase · 2020

In the aftermath of a sexual trauma, a woman begins to melt away.

Dorothea

Dorothea · 2025

MovieHorrorCrime

A twisted true crime nightmare where serial killer granny Dorothea Puente lures the vulnerable, kills without remorse, and buries secrets in her garden. Evil wears a smile. You’ll never trust kindness again.

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Appetite for Sin

Appetite for Sin · 2022

Appetite for Sin

A Horror Feature Film about the story of women vampires walking among the living in Los Angeles. The lead Vampire, Sarah Hase, is searching for the most current Vampire Killer, Jeffery Nelson. Sarah, who is also an undercover FBI agent, wants to catch him in the act and have him live in jail for eternity. Another Vampire, Joan Rosen, is also out to get him, but wants to instantly kill him. Who will get to Jeffery Nelson first? Sarah Hase or Joan Rosen?

Special Effects

Wishmaster: The Prophecy Fulfilled

Wishmaster: The Prophecy Fulfilled · 2002

Wishmaster: The Prophecy Fulfilled

MovieHorrorFantasy

The unspeakable evil of the soul-devouring djinn rises again in this fourth electrifying installment of the unstoppable Wishmaster horror legacy! But now, as a host of new victims see their most nightmarish wishes come true, the world faces the ultimate demonic terror: an onslaught of multiple djinns hell-bent on destroying everything in their path!

Makeup Effects

Iron Sky: The Coming Race

Iron Sky: The Coming Race · 2019

Iron Sky: The Coming Race

MovieActionComedy

29 years after the events of Iron Sky, the former Nazi Moonbase has become the last refuge of mankind. Earth was devastated by a nuclear war, but buried deep under the wasteland lies a power that could save the last of humanity - or destroy it once and for all. An old enemy leads our heroes on an adventure into the Hollow Earth. To save humanity, they must battle the Vril, an ancient shapeshifting reptilian race, and their army of dinosaurs.

Special Effects

Evil Toons

Evil Toons · 1992

MovieComedyHorror

Four sexy young girls are to clean an old house for the new owners. They get delivered an old book full of magic incantations, and while reading it they accidentally bring a cartoon character to life. The cartoon character likes the blood of young girls...

Special Effects Makeup Artist

Another Gay Movie

Another Gay Movie · 2006

Another Gay Movie

MovieComedyRomance

Andy is your typical All-American eighteen-year-old gay virgin. Like everyone else, he's dying to have sex. Totally out of the closet and mad-crazy horny, this naïve high school senior is caught in that awkward vortex between child and adult. Much to the dismay of his mom (who wonders why all her carrots and cucumbers keep disappearing), Andy spends much of his private time practicing for the big moment when he'll finally take the plunge.

Special Effects Coordinator

Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild!

Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild! · 2008

Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild!

MovieComedyRomance

Four university students head to Florida for spring break and enroll in a contest to see who can get the most sexual partners.

Special Effects Coordinator

Hexatic Phase

Hexatic Phase · 2020

In the aftermath of a sexual trauma, a woman begins to melt away.

Special Effects

Dorothea

Dorothea · 2025

MovieHorrorCrime

A twisted true crime nightmare where serial killer granny Dorothea Puente lures the vulnerable, kills without remorse, and buries secrets in her garden. Evil wears a smile. You’ll never trust kindness again.

Pedro Montalvo

Sincerely Saul

Sincerely Saul · 2024

MovieComedyDrama

Stuck at home with his bedridden Grandma, Saul plans to kill himself on his 27th birthday if he doesn't lose his virginity by then.

Joe

Xenophobia

Xenophobia · 2019

MovieScience Fiction

Six complete strangers recall the details of their individual experiences with alien forces-sharing the terrifying stories of their abductions and possessions.

Director

The Wailer

The Wailer · 2006

On their way to Mexico, six students are stranded in a small town where years before a tragedy took place.

Special Effects Coordinator

Evil Unleashed

Evil Unleashed · 2003

When an ancient burial ground is desecrated, a deadly Mummy is awoken, and goes on a violent killing spree.

Director

Bleed

MovieHorrorThriller

A naïve young girl desperate to fit in with her new boyfriend's tightly knit crew learns that membership may be deadly. Upon arriving at a party with her new boyfriend, Shawn, desperate-to-fit-in newcomer Debbie learns that the friends have formed a mysterious brotherhood nicknamed "The Murder Club." As Debbie accepts her invitation to join the mysterious club, a murderer who seems to take the group's name to heart begins killing off members one by one.

Special Effects Coordinator

Butchered

Butchered · 2003

Sorority girls initiate new members by making them stay in a haunted funhouse. But it turns out there is a real killer on the loose.

Director

Campfire Tales

Campfire Tales · 1997

Anthology of famous, scary urban legends done with a modern twist.

Special Effects Makeup Artist

Maya

Special Effects

Tip

MovieHorrorThriller

A group of young adults treat their server poorly and don't leave a tip. Soon, they start dying one-by-one and anyone could be the killer.

Thomas / Pedro

Clown Motel 3: 3 Ways to Hell

Clown Motel 3: 3 Ways to Hell

Clown Motel 3: 3 Ways to Hell

From director Joseph Kelly comes the third installment of the 'Clown Motel' Franchise. In a surreal Clown Dimension, soldiers face off against a clown society's sinister plot for a chilling human sacrifice, battling to save both worlds.

'Jack's in the box' Killer Clown

Legend of the Chupacabra

Legend of the Chupacabra · 2000

Legend of the Chupacabra

Is the legend of Chupacabran (roughly translated to getsugare) true? Or is it just folklore? Or a madman in latex suit? When Maria Esperanza's uncle and his goats are assaulted and killed, she collects together a team of crypto zoology student and a Marine to unravel the mystery once and for all

Director

Elf in the Hood

Elf in the Hood · 2024

Elf in the Hood

Malik and Jada are drowning in debt to a merciless drug dealer named Silk. Desperate to escape, they stumble upon a strange elf-shaped voodoo doll and see a quick payday. But as they try to sell it, they unknowingly unleash a vengeful entity. As Christmas Eve turns into a night of horrors, the couple must fight to survive while being hunted by a supernatural force bent on their destruction.

Prosthetics

Name the Demon

Name the Demon · 2025

The only hope a team of exorcists have to save a possessed women is to discover the name of the demon that has possessed her.

Father Noah Marcus

Terror Toons 2

Terror Toons 2 · 2007

MovieHorrorComedy

A girl gets a DVD entitled Terror Toons for her birthday. Meanwhile, "cartoon" characters Hansel and Gretel wander into the house of a witch who poisons them, but instead of dying, they transform into an ugly gigantic-headed psycho and a giant rat, respectively. After the girl plays the DVD, Hansel and Gretel are sucked into the real world through her TV and wreak havoc. —christianmellinger55

Director

H. P. Lovecraft's The Old Ones

H. P. Lovecraft's The Old Ones · 2024

H. P. Lovecraft's The Old Ones

In 1930, sea captain Russel Marsh saw the light, and for 93 years his body was not his own. Inhabited by a Great Old One, he committed unspeakable acts in the name of the Esoteric Order of Dagon. Now free, he is in search of a way to go back in time to reverse the horrors wrought upon the world. But the cult has other plans and will stop at nothing to destroy him.

Special Effects Makeup Artist

The Amityville Harvest

The Amityville Harvest · 2020

The Amityville Harvest

While staying at an aging manor to research its liquor-smuggling history, Christina and her documentary video team interview their spooky host Vincent—but no one can capture his image or voice on video. After shocking dreams and bloody encounters, the crew members fall under Victor’s hypnotic spell.

Special Effects