Joe Castro Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
Joe Castro
Directing
Biography
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, Castro has Produced, Written & Directed 16 feature films.
Filmography Movies
Acting
Hell's Highway
Four college friends take a fateful road trip. The road, Hell's Highway--a direct route to terror. They pick up Lucinda: A hot young hitchiker, full of sexual deviance and lust for the bloody kill. After being terrorized and nearly killed, the group manages to turn the tables. They thought they killed her, but around the next ben--around every ben-- she appears like a mirage ready to murder again. Is she the devil? Can anyone stop her killing spree?
The Horror We Make
A documentary featuring interviews from horror movie icons, filmmakers, actors and enthusiasts of the genre. Together they discuss why the horror genre is so important to creators and fans.
The Once and Future Smash
In 1970, Mikey and William both portrayed football cannibal Smash-Mouth in the influential cult hit, End Zone 2. Now, 50 years later, only one can wear the mask.
Scalper
Everyone around psychic Clementine Carter is being brutally murdered by a masked killer dubbed ‘The Scalper.’ Is it dead psycho Andrew Lubitz back from the grave, a copycat killer or a horror beyond imagination? Clementine must use her second sight to stay one step ahead of the maniac’s blade to solve the mystery.
I Am Worthless
Down-on-his-luck single father, Ernie Ester has had enough. The cruel, relentless scientists that work with the gentle giant at Worth Bio Tech have finally gone too far. They crossed a line and awakened the hunter lurking deep within him, and unleashed his bloody retribution. Their begging is worthless…Their apologies are worthless…Their lives are worthless… Ernie is WORTHLESS!
That's a Wrap
A film cast arrives at a wrap party, but someone has dressed up as the slasher in the movie and begins to stage their own kill scenes. One by one, the cast disappears until the true nature of the evening is revealed.
The Summer of Massacre
Ungodly brutal beatings turns Chris, a young man, into a fiend that sets off a bloody, like never before seen, rampage. Beauty is truly only skin deep - Watch a young paraplegic, whose body is also wrecked with spinal bifida, fight for her life as her older, beautiful sister tries to murder her. It’s been 36 years since Jesse’s loving mother was raped by his biological father. Now, after hiding and running their entire lives in fear of this murderous rapist --- He has found them! A group of Christian teenagers are stalked, mamed and burned by a local legend in a haunted forest. Three legendary serial killers terrorize downtown Los Angeles by murdering countless innocent souls and the killer plan is to go out with a real bang. There’s nothing like the sweltering heat of summer to set off a massacre. The Summer of Massacre is a 100 mph slasher ride that never slows down. Packed with enough gore and insanity to send you looking for your barf bag.
Dirty Freaken Joe: Sci-Fi Sam
Inspired by Sean Haitz upcoming feature film Area 5150. A music performance in area 51 while prisoners escape, hunted down by soldiers and aliens. Featuring cameos by Brett Wagner, Joe Castro, Sean Haitz and Ryan James.
Tin Roof
Five adults attempt to save a beloved summer camp threatened to be closed permanently due to recent unfortunate events.
Name the Demon
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.
Production
The Jackhammer Massacre
Jack Magnus is a successful businessman who periodically does drugs with his best friend Mike. When Mike takes some bad stuff, Jack panics and leaves him to die. His guilt eventually causes him to become a full fledged, utterly pathetic junkie. After being force fed a particularly nasty brew by a vindictive supplier, Jack seems to only grow stronger, surviving the ordeal and living on to become a crazed jackhammer killer. He's now utterly paranoid, believing that everybody is out to get him, with his paranoia manifested in visions of his dead friend.
The Jackhammer Massacre
Jack Magnus is a successful businessman who periodically does drugs with his best friend Mike. When Mike takes some bad stuff, Jack panics and leaves him to die. His guilt eventually causes him to become a full fledged, utterly pathetic junkie. After being force fed a particularly nasty brew by a vindictive supplier, Jack seems to only grow stronger, surviving the ordeal and living on to become a crazed jackhammer killer. He's now utterly paranoid, believing that everybody is out to get him, with his paranoia manifested in visions of his dead friend.
The Zombie Chronicles
Tara Woodley is a reporter looking to do a story on the famous ghosts of an old desert town. she can't seem to find the place until she picks up a strange hitchhiker, who tells her he knows the way. they proceed on a journey involving a variety of characters, including an Army Sergeant whose vicious cruelty kills on a young recruit and three hapless campers who stumble into an old cursed cemetery!
Terror Toons
In a quiet suburban neighborhood, two sisters are about to experience the dark and sinister world of Terror Toons.
Terror Toons
In a quiet suburban neighborhood, two sisters are about to experience the dark and sinister world of Terror Toons.
Terror Toons
In a quiet suburban neighborhood, two sisters are about to experience the dark and sinister world of Terror Toons.
Terror Toons 2
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
Terror Toons 2
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
Terror Toons 2
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
Blood Sisters
The young and lust filled Blood Sisters find college life the perfect haven for their daily "habit"... Blood. They stalk and seduce their victims by day, then torture and kill them by night. When a chain of strange dissappearances occurs at sexy Tracy's college, fear immediately floods the hallways. Corpses mount at one of the school's sororities. Tracy and her gorgeous roomate, Melissa, join the mysterious sorority hoping to uncover the dark secret. After witnessing brutal slayings, they realize their only salvation lies in the defeat and damnation of the Blood Sisters!
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