David DeCoteau
Known for: Directing
Born: January 5, 1962
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
266 movies · 2 TV shows, newest first
6.0
The Wrong Housemaid
2026
NR
A Neighbor to Die For
2026
2.0
Home Makeover Nightmare
2026
10.0
The Wrong Baby Daddy
2026
6.0
The Christmas Campaign
2025
NR
The Wrong Marriage
2025
7.5
The Wrong Obsession
2025
5.8
Make or Bake Christmas
2024
7.0
A Nanny to Die For
2024
5.7
Fatal Fixer Upper
2024
5.2
Million Dollar Lethal Listing
2024
6.2
Tall, Dark and Dangerous
2024
9.0
The Wrong Life Coach
2024
6.3
A Christmas Intern
2023
1.9
Clownado
2023
5.7
As Luck Would Have It
2023
4.6
If I Can't Have You
2023
NR
Honeymoon in Paradise
2023
2.5
Carnage Collection - Puppet Master: Trunk Full of Terror
2022
7.2
Killer Design
2022
5.9
The Wrong High School Sweetheart
2022
5.1
The Wrong Blind Date
2022
7.4
The Wrong Cheer Captain
2021
8.8
Keeping Up with the Joneses
2021
4.2
Mommy's Deadly Con Artist
2021
5.0
Deceived by My Mother-In-Law
2021
6.0
The Wrong Valentine
2021
2.5
The Wrong Prince Charming
2021
4.4
The Wrong Mr. Right
2021
5.0
The Wrong Fiancé
2021
6.4
The Wrong Real Estate Agent
2021
6.4
Christmas Together
2020
5.0
A Christmas for Mary
2020
7.0
Tales of the Uncanny
2020
6.1
The Wrong Cheerleader Coach
2020
7.2
The Wrong Stepfather
2020
5.0
The Wrong Wedding Planner
2020
4.0
The Wrong House Sitter
2020
5.5
Christmas Matchmakers
2019
4.0
Carole's Christmas
2019
5.2
Weedjies! Halloweed Night
2019
6.8
The Wrong Cheerleader
2019
2.9
The Wrong Tutor
2019
6.8
The Wrong Mommy
2019
5.1
The Wrong Boy Next Door
2019
6.8
The Wrong Stepmother
2019
4.1
My Mother's Stalker
2019
2.0
Deadly Ten: Meet the Directors
2019
1.5
Zombie Lust: Night Flesh
2019
5.6
The Wrong Teacher
2018
3.8
Psycho Sideshow: Demon Freaks
2018
2.0
Purgatory: Entering John Carpenter's 'Escape From New York'
2018
5.0
Puppet Master: Blitzkrieg Massacre
2018
NR
Puppet Master: Blitzkrieg Massacre
2018
5.7
The Wrong Friend
2018
4.3
The Wrong Cruise
2018
4.9
The Wrong Man
2017
4.7
A Christmas Cruise
2017
3.4
My Christmas Grandpa
2017
5.7
A Royal Christmas Ball
2017
4.9
Runaway Christmas Bride
2017
6.3
Delivering Christmas
2017
6.0
Blood Dynasty
2017
4.9
Puppet Master: Axis Termination
2017
3.3
Femaliens: Seduction of the Species
2017
4.8
The Wrong Crush
2017
5.2
Swamp Freak
2017
7.1
The Disaster Artist
2017
4.5
The Wrong Student
2017
5.6
Deadly Lessons
2017
6.1
VHS Lives: A Schlockumentary
2017
3.4
Witness Protection
2017
5.2
A Husband for Christmas
2016
6.0
Bloody Blacksmith
2016
2.3
Evil Exhumed
2016
4.3
Asian Ghost Story
2016
4.9
The Wrong Child
2016
1.7
666: Teen Warlock
2016
2.7
Evil Bong: High-5!
2016
5.1
The Wrong Roommate
2016
3.3
Sorority Slaughterhouse
2015
3.9
Evil Bong 420
2015
4.0
90210 Shark Attack
2015
4.5
3 Scream Queens
2014
2.4
Bigfoot vs. D.B. Cooper
2014
4.6
Trophy Heads
2014
5.9
Knock 'em Dead
2014
3.6
Doc Holliday's Revenge
2014
3.2
666: Devilish Charm
2014
2.4
666: Kreepy Kerry
2014
7.3
I Am Divine
2014
4.6
3 Wicked Witches
2014
6.0
Bonnie & Clyde: Justified
2013
4.9
My Stepbrother Is a Vampire!?!
2013
2.2
A Talking Pony!?!
2013
3.0
The Dead Reborn
2013
2.2
Badass Showdown
2013
2.6
An Easter Bunny Puppy
2013
3.1
A Talking Cat!?!
2013
3.7
Hansel & Gretel: Warriors of Witchcraft
2013
3.9
Santa's Summer House
2012
2.0
Immortal Kiss: Queen of the Night
2012
2.5
A Halloween Puppy
2012
3.6
2: Voodoo Academy
2012
2.8
1313: Frankenqueen
2012
3.3
1313: Night of the Widow
2012
2.4
1313: Hercules Unbound!
2012
3.6
1313: Billy the Kid
2012
4.3
Baby Dolls Behind Bars
2012
3.4
1313: Bermuda Triangle
2012
3.6
1313: UFO Invasion
2012
3.8
Snow White: A Deadly Summer
2012
3.5
1313: Cougar Cult
2012
5.0
1313: Bigfoot Island
2012
2.7
Christmas Spirit
2011
2.9
1313: Wicked Stepbrother
2011
3.5
1313: Boy Crazies
2011
4.3
1313: Actor Slash Model
2011
2.8
1313: Haunted Frat
2011
6.7
Screaming in High Heels: The Rise & Fall of the Scream Queen Era
2011
3.2
1313: Giant Killer Bees!
2011
4.3
1313: Nightmare Mansion
2011
8.3
Tales from the Lumber Yard: The Making of Galaxy of Terror
2010
4.0
Body Blow
2010
NR
The Making of Evil
2010
4.6
Charles Band's Puppet Master: Axis of Evil
2010
2.4
The Invisible Chronicles
2009
1.5
Nightfall
2009
2.0
Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit & The Pendulum
2009
2.0
Stem Cell
2009
2.7
Alien Presence
2009
2.5
The Brotherhood VI: Initiation
2009
2.1
The Brotherhood V: Alumni
2009
4.5
Gingerdead Man 2: The Passion of the Crust
2008
3.2
Edgar Allan Poe's House of Usher
2008
3.5
Playing with Fire
2008
2.6
Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven
2007
4.0
Grizzly Rage
2007
3.2
Beastly Boyz
2006
2.5
Witches of the Caribbean
2005
4.3
Frankenstein & the Werewolf Reborn!
2005
4.2
Killer Bash
2005
3.8
The Brotherhood IV: The Complex
2005
3.5
Possessed
2005
3.8
The Sisterhood
2004
3.5
Tomb of Terror
2004
4.1
Ring of Darkness
2004
3.5
Speed Demon
2003
3.6
Leeches!
2003
4.6
Wolves of Wall Street
2002
3.1
The Brotherhood III: Young Demons
2002
5.1
The Frightening
2002
4.2
The Brotherhood 2: Young Warlocks
2001
4.1
Final Stab
2001
4.4
The Brotherhood
2001
9.0
Micro Mini Kids
2001
8.0
My Darker Half
2000
3.1
Prison of the Dead
2000
3.7
Voodoo Academy
2000
3.6
Ancient Evil: Scream of the Mummy
2000
2.5
Horrific
2000
4.2
Retro Puppetmaster
1999
4.4
Totem
1999
4.8
Witchouse
1999
2.6
The Killer Eye
1999
NR
Videozone: The Making of "Retro Puppet Master"
1999
4.2
Alien Arsenal
1998
4.8
Frankenstein Reborn!
1998
3.9
Talisman
1998
NR
Videozone: The Making of "Curse of the Puppet Master"
1998
4.6
Curse of the Puppet Master
1998
4.5
Shrieker
1998
5.5
Leather Jacket Love Story
1998
4.0
Creaturealm: From the Dead
1998
4.5
Hollywood Mortuary
1998
3.6
Lurid Tales: The Castle Queen
1997
2.9
Absolution
1997
4.2
Skeletons
1997
3.8
Petticoat Planet
1996
5.7
Prey of the Jaguar
1996
3.4
Bikini Goddesses
1996
7.0
Not Again!
1996
4.1
Huntress: Spirit of the Night
1995
4.5
Beach Babes 2: Cave Girl Island
1995
3.4
Blonde Heaven
1995
4.3
Prehysteria! 3
1995
4.2
Test Tube Teens from the Year 2000
1994
4.0
Beach Babes from Beyond
1993
4.8
Naked Instinct
1993
3.5
The Witching
1993
3.0
Humanoids from Atlantis
1992
6.4
Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge
1992
4.0
Redneck County Fever
1992
8.8
Invasion of the Scream Queens
1992
7.0
Nightmare Asylum
1992
5.5
Reanimator Academy
1992
3.5
Chickboxer
1992
3.5
Zombie Cop
1991
5.6
Trancers II
1991
4.8
Beasties
1991
2.9
Sorority Babes in the Dance-A-Thon of Death
1991
5.0
Steel and Lace
1991
6.0
Videozone: The Making of "Puppet Master III"
1991
4.0
Shock Cinema: Volume One
1991
8.0
Shock Cinema: Volume Four
1991
NR
Hung Studs 2
1991
4.0
The Girl I Want
1990
6.5
The Ghost Writer
1990
4.3
Crash and Burn
1990
6.0
Puppet Master II
1990
6.2
Linnea Quigley's Horror Workout
1990
5.1
Skinned Alive
1990
4.7
Ghoul School
1990
4.5
Ghost Writer
1989
4.7
Robot Ninja
1989
4.7
Murder Weapon
1989
5.1
Dr. Alien
1989
3.6
Assault of the Party Nerds
1989
5.6
Action U.S.A.
1989
3.2
Ghetto Blaster
1989
4.3
Deadly Embrace
1989
3.8
American Rampage
1989
5.2
Zombie Rampage
1989
NR
Men of Action 2
1989
3.0
Lady Avenger
1988
5.6
Nightmare Sisters
1988
3.6
Assault of the Killer Bimbos
1988
4.8
Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama
1988
4.5
Creepozoids
1987
8.0
Little Miss Innocence
1987
4.0
Dreamaniac
1986
NR
Bad Boys Dormitory
1986
7.0
Boy's Camp Memories
1986
NR
Man Heat
1986
NR
Men on the Loose
1986
NR
Play Safely
1986
NR
When a Stranger Comes
1986
NR
Freshman
1986
NR
Male-O-Gram
1986
9.0
Jacqueline
1986
8.0
Revenge of the Babes 2
1986
NR
Revenge of the Babes
1986
6.5
Working Girls
1985
5.9
Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart
1985
NR
Flesh 1995
1985
6.0
Tuff Turf
1985
7.0
Sounds of Sex
1985
NR
Mansplash
1985
NR
Making It Huge
1985
NR
Getting Off Campus
1985
10.0
Fleshtones
1985
9.0
Never Big Enough
1985
NR
Men and Steel
1985
10.0
Totally Awesome
1985
NR
Show & Tell
1985
NR
Boys Just Wanna Have Sex
1985
NR
New Wave Hustlers
1985
NR
Body Scorcher
1984
NR
The French Lieutenant's Boys
1984
NR
Campus Jocks
1984
NR
Good Men Go Bad
1984
9.0
Dangerous
1983
5.6
The Woman in the Room
1983
8.7
Games
1983
9.2
Cousins
1983
8.3
Doing It
1983
NR
Celluloid Wizards in the Video Wasteland: The Saga of Empire Pictures
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NR
A Perfect Christmas Kiss
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