Michael J. Epstein
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.
Fotos
Filme (152)

The Ringing
2026 · Jack

Final Transmissions
2026 · Alien, Writer, Producer, Editor, Sound Mixer, Director, Sound Recordist

Hag
2026 · Thanks

We're Not Them
2026 · Gaffer, Sound Recordist

Robot Dracula
2026 · Reynolds / Bobby Zombert / RoboCock, Writer, Editor

Spandexorcist
2025 · Rick Rockwell

OnlyFangs
2025 · Monster Hunter

Day of the Dad
2025 · Second Assistant Camera, Editor, Co-Producer

Cringe
2025 · Boom Operator, Sound Mixer

The Mystery of Emma Thorn
2025 · First Assistant Camera, Digital Imaging Technician

Fatal Desires
2025 · Thanks
Tragic Tones: The Music of Hider in the House
2025 · Sound

Chainsaw Symphony
2025 · Sound

The Lost Leatherface
2025 · Sound

Den of Vampires
2025 · Sound

Giving Up the Ghost
2025 · Sound

Bart & Bobbi Kill Each Other
2025 · Producer, Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Camera Operator, Gaffer

Return to Dark City
2025 · Sound

Bite School 2
2025 · Reynolds/RoboCock/Bobby Zombert, Editor, Writer

Backwoods Blood Feud
2025 · Writer

Mother Goose's Scary Tales
2024 · Burglar (segment: Sitting Duck), Hooligan (segment: Half-Cocked)

The Pillow Fright Halloween Special
2024

Solvent
2024 · Nazi

Slasher Fetish
2024 · Cinematography
Blender Memories
2024 · Director

Dear Diary
2024 · Director

Aerospace Engineering
2024 · Director

Smash the Competition
2024 · Director

Open Wide
2024 · Director
The Song I'm Singing Tomorrow
2024 · Sound Mixer

Psycho Ape!! Part II: The Wrath of Kong
2024 · Michael J. Epstein, Producer

Hacking at Leaves
2024 · Self

American Terror Tales 3
2024 · Director of Photography, Editor, Writer
Bad Day on Fountain
2023 · Co-Producer
The Ballad of Little Jo - interview with Suzy Amis
2023 · Director, Sound
In Action with Michael Ironside
2023 · Sound
Two Small Bodies - Interview with Suzy Amis
2023 · Sound
Enough Is Enough
2023 · Sound
Little Lambs
2023 · Sound
Love and Hate
2023 · Sound

Don't F**k with Anne Margaret
2023 · Assistant Camera

Kill Dolly Kill
2023 · Editor

Bloody Bridget
2023 · Attacker

Exterminate All Rational Thought
2023 · Sound Mixer

Craving
2023 · Camera Operator, Gaffer
Barfuss, Homicide
2023 · Sound Mixer
Handling His Property
2023 · Sound Mixer

Fat Fleshy Fingers
2023 · Young Grandfather (segment: "The King of Carrot Flowers"), Writer, Producer, Editor, Sound, Visual Effects, Post Production Supervisor

Salomé: Do Not Dance, My Daughter
2022 · Bill

The Once and Future Smash
2022 · Repo Man, Director, Producer, Writer, Sound, Camera Operator

Reel Trouble
2022 · Producer, Editor, Sound

13 Minutes of Horror: Sci-Fi Horror
2022 · Editor

Memento Mori
2022 · Editor, Sound Designer

In the Dark
2022

Meat Friend
2022 · Editor, Sound, Visual Effects

The Devil's Tail
2021 · Metal Guitarist (segment 'What Metal Girls Are Into')
I Thought His Name Was Blarche
2021 · Juxtapositional Orienting Dimension, Director, Writer

Philia
2021 · Dave (segment: Mythophilia)

The Transformations of the Transformations of the Drs. Jenkins
2021 · Dr. Jenkins / Dr. Jenkins / Self, Director, Writer, Producer

Sitting Duck
2021 · Burglar
Micro-Budget Marauders: Micro-Budget Mentality
2021 · Himself

Microbudget Marauders 3
2021 · Self
The Big Steep
2021 · Keeper of the kettle
Micro-Budget Marauders 3: Marketing and Distribution
2020 · Himself

Happy Horror Days
2020 · Mr. Keane (St. Patrick's Day)

Brides of Satan
2020 · Dewdrop

Bloodhound
2020 · Renfield, Writer, Editor

Tea Time
2020 · Camera Operator, Gaffer

7 Sins
2020 · Pentheus (segment: Pride), Director, Writer, Music, Editor

Disco Graveyard
2020 · Editor

Darling Pet Monkey
2020 · Producer, Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Sound Recordist

Shiny Diamonds
2020 · Producer

Dinogore
2020

Pride
2020 · Pentheus, Original Music Composer, Editor, Writer, Director

Eagle Rock
2019 · Sound Mixer

I Am an Addict
2019 · The Pyromaniac (Segment: "Pyromania"), Director

Direct to Video: Straight to Video Horror of the 90s
2019 · Camera Operator, Sound

The Dial Tone of Doom
2019 · Director, Writer, Cinematography, Editor

Half-Cocked
2019 · Hooligan, Producer, Assistant Director, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Merde
2019 · Inmate Harvey

Sugar Off The Button
2019

Re-Home
2019 · Boom Operator, Sound Recordist, Gaffer

Umbilicus Desidero
2019 · Director
Dirty D: Jelly
2019 · Director, Cinematography, Editor

The Obliteration of the Chickens
2019 · Editor

Clickbait
2019 · Hollywood Juggler, Donald Trump, Director, Writer, Original Music Composer, Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Camera Operator, Producer
Behind the Force: Making the Streets Run Red
2018 · Self

60 Seconds 2 Die: 60 Seconds to Die 2
2018 · safe cracker (segment: "Poisoned"), Director, Writer, Cinematography, Editor, Sound, Music

Conspiracy X
2018 · Director, Music, Cinematography, Editor, Sound

Leopard (Part II)
2018 · Dave, Editor, Sound
The Shackling
2018 · couch TV couple

A Taste of Phobia
2018 · Elijah (segment "Somniphobia"), Director, Editor, Music, Sound, Writer

Manos Returns
2018 · Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Dept. of Reincarnation
2018 · Urinator, Editor, Sound, Camera Operator

2 Die For
2018 · Barista (segment: "With Whip"), Murderer (segment: "Witness"), Director of Photography, Producer, Music

Glossary of Broken Dreams
2018 · DeForest Schbeibi, Camera Operator

Trashsploitation
2018 · Director of Photography, Director, Music

60 Seconds to Die
2017 · Director

Swipe Right
2017 · Bill

What Metal Girls Are Into
2017 · Metal Guitarist

The Greatest Question Facing the Future of Science and Robotics
2017 · Sound

The Streets Run Red
2017 · Camera Operator

Hipster Ghost
2017 · Michael, Writer, Producer, Music, Editor, Sound, Visual Effects

For a Good Time, Call...
2017 · Boom Operator, Sound Mixer
Dyin' Ryan
2017 · Sound

Grindsploitation 2: The Lost Reels
2016 · Director

Party Time: The Music of Return of the Living Dead
2016 · Sound, Camera Operator

Grindsploitation
2016 · Bad Guy #1 (segment "John Smith")
Magnetostatic Systems Training Video No. 108: The Making of Magnetic
2016 · Self

Weekend Vampire
2016 · Goth band drummer

The Blood Is the Life
2016 · Self, music, Director of Photography, Director, Writer, Editor, Producer
El Loco Nihilismo
2016 · Pierre Kubiak, Paper Connoisseur

Thirteen
2016 · Cinematography

Blood of the Tribades
2016 · Director of Photography, Executive Producer, Director, Writer, Original Music Composer, Producer, Editor, Sound
Idioms Origins Volume 1
2016 · Store Clerk

Chainsaw Maidens from Hell
2016 · Party Band

Gay Jesus
2015 · Sound Mixer, Camera Operator

Innsmouth
2015 · Boom Operator, Sound Mixer

Planchette
2015 · Killer, Music, Cinematography, Boom Operator, Sound Recordist
Los Locos Dientes
2015 · Patients

Magnetic
2015 · Subject of painting (uncredited), Director, Writer, Original Music Composer, Producer, Editor, Sound, Musician

Bring Us Your Women
2015 · King Solomon (segment "Queen of Sheba"), Director, Producer

For the Love of Metamorphosis
2015 · Director of Photography, Director, Producer, Writer, Editor, Sound

The Ungovernable Force
2015 · Sound Editor, Boom Operator, Sound Mixer, Assistant Camera, Camera Operator

Honky Holocaust
2014 · Sound Editor
A Trip to Spektor Island: Behind-the-Scenes of TEN
2014 · Self
Uncut
2014 · Self - Red Team Captain

Ten
2014 · Subject of painting, Director, Writer, Producer, Executive Producer, Editor, Storyboard Artist, Foley Artist, Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Special Effects Supervisor, Visual Effects Supervisor, Music Editor, Colorist

Fat
2013 · Dinner party guest #1
The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library: Amylee
2013 · Animated band member
El Loco Ojo
2013 · Number 6 / Subject of Painting
Darling Pet Munkee Presents: Creature Double Feature
2012 · Dirt Thief
Los Locos Manos
2012 · Subject of Painting

Kaiju Big Battel: Shocking Truth
2005 · Alien Horde

End Zone 2
1970 · Smash-Mouth, Characters, Story, Producer
End Zone
1965 · Executive Producer, Producer
Wake Not the Dead
· You Guys, Boom Operator, Sound Mixer
An LA Christmas Story
· Felix Finklestein
Worthless
· Gary
Padre Morte
· Iron Spine
Microwave Massacre 2: Undead Leftovers!
· V
All for Tomorrow
· Pete Harlan Double, Co-Producer, Editor, Visual Effects Supervisor, Digital Imaging Technician, Gaffer, Colorist
Our Man Funk
· Manny, Producer

The Killer Pizza Man

The Legend of Tinker Hell
· Family member
I Feel Really Homesick Sometimes
· Sound Mixer, Boom Operator, Gaffer, Editor, Sound Recordist

Witchcraft
· Editor
You are in Hell!
· Sound Mixer
My Shadow
· Sound Recordist
Eidolon
· Editor

Howard the Doc or: How I Learned to Start Quacking and Love the Bomb
· Sound Recordist, Camera Operator
DR1-V3N
· Camera Operator, Gaffer


