Directing
Michael J. Epstein
- Directed
- 30
- Written
- 24
- Produced
- 22
- Movies
- 77
Biography
Michael J. Epstein is a Los Angeles filmmaker known for social-satire-horror Clickbait (2019), 70s-Euro-vampire Blood of the Tribades (2016), psychotronic-sci-fi Magnetic (2015), and the avant-mystery Ten (2014). He often co-writes, co-directs, and co-produces with his wife, Sophia Cacciola, with their production company, Launch Over.
Known For
- Upcoming
- Wake Not the Dead · Film · You Guys
- An LA Christmas Story · Film · Felix Finklestein
- Worthless · Film · Gary
- Padre Morte · Film · Iron Spine
- Microwave Massacre 2: Undead Leftovers! · Film · V
- The Ringing · Film · Jack
- All for Tomorrow · Film · Pete Harlan Double
- Our Man Funk · Film · Manny
- The Killer Pizza Man · Film
- Wake Not the Dead · Film · Boom Operator
- I Feel Really Homesick Sometimes · Film · Sound Mixer
- All for Tomorrow · Film · Co-Producer
- Witchcraft · Film · Editor
- You are in Hell! · Film · Sound Mixer
- My Shadow · Film · Sound Recordist
- Our Man Funk · Film · Producer
- Eidolon · Film · Editor
- Howard the Doc or: How I Learned to Start Quacking and Love the Bomb · Film · Sound Recordist
- DR1-V3N · Film · Camera Operator
- 2026
- Final Transmissions · Film · Alien
- Robot Dracula · Film · Reynolds · Bobby Zombert · RoboCock
- Robot Dracula · Film · Writer
- Hag · Film · Thanks
- We're Not Them · Film · Gaffer
- Final Transmissions · Film · Writer
- 2025
- Spandexorcist · Film · Rick Rockwell
- OnlyFangs · Film · Monster Hunter
- Bite School 2 · Film · Reynolds · RoboCock · Bobby Zombert
- Backwoods Blood Feud · Film · Writer
- Bart & Bobbi Kill Each Other · Film · Producer
- Return to Dark City · Film · Sound
- The Mystery of Emma Thorn · Film · First Assistant Camera
- Bite School 2 · Film · Editor
- Day of the Dad · Film · Second Assistant Camera
- Fatal Desires · Film · Thanks
- Cringe · Film · Boom Operator
- Tragic Tones: The Music of Hider in the House · Film · Sound
- Chainsaw Symphony · Film · Sound
- The Lost Leatherface · Film · Sound
- Den of Vampires · Film · Sound
- Giving Up the Ghost · Film · Sound
- 2024
- Mother Goose's Scary Tales · Film · Burglar (segment: Sitting Duck)
- The Pillow Fright Halloween Special · Film
- Solvent · Film · Nazi
- Psycho Ape!! Part II: The Wrath of Kong · Film · Michael J. Epstein
- Hacking at Leaves · Film
- American Terror Tales 3 · Film · Director of Photography
- Psycho Ape!! Part II: The Wrath of Kong · Film · Producer
- Slasher Fetish · Film · Cinematography
- Blender Memories · Film · Director
- Dear Diary · Film · Director
- Aerospace Engineering · Film · Director
- Smash the Competition · Film · Director
- Open Wide · Film · Director
- The Song I'm Singing Tomorrow · Film · Sound Mixer
- 2023
- Bloody Bridget · Film · Attacker
- Fat Fleshy Fingers · Film · Young Grandfather (segment: "The King of Carrot Flowers")
- Craving · Film · Camera Operator
- Kill Dolly Kill · Film · Editor
- Fat Fleshy Fingers · Film · Writer
- Don't F**k with Anne Margaret · Film · Assistant Camera
- The Ballad of Little Jo - interview with Suzy Amis · Film · Director
- Two Small Bodies - Interview with Suzy Amis · Film · Sound
- Bad Day on Fountain · Film · Co-Producer
- In Action with Michael Ironside · Film · Sound
- Enough Is Enough · Film · Sound
- Little Lambs · Film · Sound
- Exterminate All Rational Thought · Film · Sound Mixer
- Love and Hate · Film · Sound
- Barfuss, Homicide · Film · Sound Mixer
- Handling His Property · Film · Sound Mixer
- 2022
- Salomé: Do Not Dance, My Daughter · Film · Bill
- The Once and Future Smash · Film · Repo Man
- In the Dark · Film
- The Once and Future Smash · Film · Director
- Meat Friend · Film · Editor
- Memento Mori · Film · Editor
- 13 Minutes of Horror: Sci-Fi Horror · Film · Editor
- Reel Trouble · Film · Producer
- 2021
- The Devil's Tail · Film · Metal Guitarist (segment 'What Metal Girls Are Into')
- I Thought His Name Was Blarche · Film · Juxtapositional Orienting Dimension
- Philia · Film · Dave (segment: Mythophilia)
- The Transformations of the Transformations of the Drs. Jenkins · Film · Dr. Jenkins
- Sitting Duck · Film · Burglar
- Micro-Budget Marauders: Micro-Budget Mentality · Film
- Microbudget Marauders 3 · Film
- The Big Steep · Film · Keeper of the kettle
- The Transformations of the Transformations of the Drs. Jenkins · Film · Director
- I Thought His Name Was Blarche · Film · Director
- 2020
- Micro-Budget Marauders 3: Marketing and Distribution · Film
- Happy Horror Days · Film · Mr. Keane (St. Patrick's Day)
- Brides of Satan · Film · Dewdrop
- Bloodhound · Film · Renfield
- 7 Sins · Film · Pentheus (segment: Pride)
- Dinogore · Film
- Pride · Film · Pentheus
- 7 Sins · Film · Director
- Bloodhound · Film · Writer
- Shiny Diamonds · Film · Producer
- Darling Pet Monkey · Film · Producer
- Pride · Film · Original Music Composer
- Disco Graveyard · Film · Editor
- Tea Time · Film · Camera Operator
- 2019
- I Am an Addict · Film · The Pyromaniac (Segment: "Pyromania")
- Half-Cocked · Film · Hooligan
- Merde · Film · Inmate Harvey
- Sugar Off The Button · Film
- Clickbait · Film · Hollywood Juggler · Donald Trump
- Clickbait · Film · Director
- Direct to Video: Straight to Video Horror of the 90s · Film · Camera Operator
- Re-Home · Film · Boom Operator
- The Obliteration of the Chickens · Film · Editor
- Dirty D: Jelly · Film · Director
- Half-Cocked · Film · Producer
- Umbilicus Desidero · Film · Director
- I Am an Addict · Film · Director
- Eagle Rock · Film · Sound Mixer
- The Dial Tone of Doom · Film · Director
- 2018
- Behind the Force: Making the Streets Run Red · Film
- 60 Seconds 2 Die: 60 Seconds to Die 2 · Film · safe cracker (segment: "Poisoned")
- Leopard (Part II) · Film · Dave
- The Shackling · Film · couch TV couple
- A Taste of Phobia · Film · Elijah (segment "Somniphobia")
- Dept. of Reincarnation · Film · Urinator
- 2 Die For · Film · Barista (segment: "With Whip") · Murderer (segment: "Witness")
- Glossary of Broken Dreams · Film · DeForest Schbeibi
- Glossary of Broken Dreams · Film · Camera Operator
- Manos Returns · Film · Sound Re-Recording Mixer
- A Taste of Phobia · Film · Director
- Conspiracy X · Film · Director
- Trashsploitation · Film · Director of Photography
- 2 Die For · Film · Director of Photography
- Dept. of Reincarnation · Film · Editor
- 60 Seconds 2 Die: 60 Seconds to Die 2 · Film · Director
- Leopard (Part II) · Film · Editor
- 2017
- Swipe Right · Film · Bill
- What Metal Girls Are Into · Film · Metal Guitarist
- Hipster Ghost · Film · Michael
- 60 Seconds to Die · Film · Director
- The Streets Run Red · Film · Camera Operator
- For a Good Time, Call... · Film · Boom Operator
- Hipster Ghost · Film · Writer
- The Greatest Question Facing the Future of Science and Robotics · Film · Sound
- Dyin' Ryan · Film · Sound
- Tales from the Grave · Series · Director
- 2016
- Grindsploitation · Film · Bad Guy #1 (segment "John Smith")
- Magnetostatic Systems Training Video No. 108: The Making of Magnetic · Film
- Weekend Vampire · Film · Goth band drummer
- The Blood Is the Life · Film
- El Loco Nihilismo · Film · Pierre Kubiak · Paper Connoisseur
- Idioms Origins Volume 1 · Film · Store Clerk
- Chainsaw Maidens from Hell · Film · Party Band
- Blood of the Tribades · Film · Director of Photography
- Grindsploitation 2: The Lost Reels · Film · Director
- The Blood Is the Life · Film · Director of Photography
- Party Time: The Music of Return of the Living Dead · Film · Sound
- Thirteen · Film · Cinematography
- 2015
- Planchette · Film · Killer
- Los Locos Dientes · Film · Patients
- Magnetic · Film · Subject of painting
- Bring Us Your Women · Film · King Solomon (segment "Queen of Sheba")
- For the Love of Metamorphosis · Film
- Magnetic · Film · Director
- Innsmouth · Film · Boom Operator
- Gay Jesus · Film · Sound Mixer
- The Ungovernable Force · Film · Sound Editor
- Bring Us Your Women · Film · Director
- For the Love of Metamorphosis · Film · Director of Photography
- Planchette · Film · Music
- 2014
- A Trip to Spektor Island: Behind-the-Scenes of TEN · Film
- Uncut · Film · Red Team Captain
- Ten · Film · Subject of painting
- Ten · Film · Director
- Honky Holocaust · Film · Sound Editor
- 2013
- Fat · Film · Dinner party guest #1
- The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library: Amylee · Film · Animated band member
- El Loco Ojo · Film · Number 6 · Subject of Painting
- 2012
- Darling Pet Munkee Presents: Creature Double Feature · Film · Dirt Thief
- Los Locos Manos · Film · Subject of Painting
- 2005
- Kaiju Big Battel: Shocking Truth · Film · Alien Horde
- 1970
- End Zone 2 · Film · Smash-Mouth
- End Zone 2 · Film · Characters
- 1965
- End Zone · Film · Executive Producer