David DeCoteau
David DeCoteau (born January 5, 1962) is an American film director and producer.
Also recorded as Julian Breen · DeCoteau · Ellen Cabot · Richard Chasen
David DeCoteau
- Name
- David DeCoteau
- Born
- 5 January 1962
- Birthplace
- Portland, Oregon, U.S.
- Occupation
- * Film director
- Nationality
- United States · Canada
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Biography
Biography
DeCoteau worked across film director, film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer and director and 1 further recorded occupations. This article rests on 4 scholarly references drawn from named institutional registers. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — David DeCoteau • Other Names — * Ellen Cabot • Julian Breen • Victoria Sloan • Richard Chasen • Jack Reed • Martin Tate • Joseph Tennent • Mary Crawford • Born — 5 January 1962 • Birthplace — Portland, Oregon, U.S. • Occupation — * Film director • film producer • Years Active — 1983–present
Early life
Early life
David DeCoteau was born on January 5, 1962, in Portland, Oregon, where he was raised. DeCoteau was an only child and was adopted at birth. His father was of Native American heritage. DeCoteau's mother died of cancer when he was eight years old. As a teenager, DeCoteau developed a love for film, and worked as a theater projectionist beginning at age fifteen.
Career
Career
He has worked professionally in the movie business since he was 18. He got his start through 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 for Charles Band. He is the founder of Rapid Heart Pictures, where his films include A Talking Cat!?! and the 1313 film series. He has said of his working methods, "I always wanted to make what I could sell. So I just promised myself that I would not be set in my ways. If somebody said, ‘Look, we need a horror film, we need a creature feature, we need a Western, we need a period costume drama,’ I was able to put it together pretty quickly." Throughout his career, DeCoteau has been credited under a variety of pseudonyms: Ellen Cabot, Julian Breen, Victoria Sloan, Richard Chasen, Jack Reed, Martin Tate, Joseph Tennent, and Mary Crawford. DeCoteau revealed that he originally did not want his name to be associated with films that did not turn out as intended. DeCoteau has directed 102 motion pictures between 1986 and 2014.
Personal life
Personal life
He resides in British Columbia and Los Angeles. DeCoteau is gay.
Life and work
Life and work
David DeCoteau was born on 5 January 1962 in Portland. DeCoteau held the nationality of United States and Canada. DeCoteau worked as film director, film producer, screenwriter and cinematographer, and the authority record catalogues a further 2 occupations under the same name, among them director and pornographic film director.
Work for the screen
Work for the screen
DeCoteau worked for the screen, as film director, film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer and pornographic film director. 82 films survive in the institutional catalogues, spanning 1985 to 2019. Among them are New Wave Hustlers (1985), Creepozoids (1987), Nightmare Sisters (1987), Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama (1988), Lady Avenger (1988) and Dr. The whole run is set out in the catalogue below.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 1 entries
1962
David DeCoteau born at Portland.
Filmmaking credits
• Year — Film — Director — Producer — Cinematographer — Writer — Notes — Ref. • 1987 — Creepozoids • 1988 — Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama • Nightmare Sisters • Lady Avenger • Assault of the Killer Bimbos • 1989 — Murder Weapon — as Ellen Cabot • Robot Ninja • Ghost Writer • Assault of the Party Nerds • American Rampage • Dr. Alien • Deadly Embrace — as Ellen Cabot • Ghetto Blaster • 1990 — The Girl I Want — as Ellen Cabot • Linnea Quigley's Horror Workout • Steel and Lace • Crash and Burn • Ghoul School — Uncredited • Skinned Alive • Puppet Master II • 1991 — Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge • Trancers II • Zombie Cop • Beasties • Shock Cinema Vol. 1 • Shock Cinema Vol. 2 • Shock Cinema Vol. 3 • Shock Cinema Vol. 4 • Sorority Babes in the Dance-A-Thon of Death • 1992 — Reanimator Academy • Redneck County Fever • Nightmare Asylum • Humanoids from Atlantis • Chickboxer • Zombie Rampage • 1993 — Naked Instinct — as Ellen Cabot • Beach Babes from Beyond — as Ellen Cabot • 1994 — Test Tube Teens from the Year 2000 — as Ellen Cabot • 1995 — Young Blood, Fresh Meat • Beach Babes 2: Cave Girl Island — as Ellen Cabot • Prehysteria! 3 — as Julian Breen • 1996 — Bikini Goddesses — as Ellen Cabot • Huntress: Spirit of the Night — Uncredited • Not Again! • Petticoat Planet — as Ellen Cabot • 1997 — Prey of the Jaguar • The Journey: Absolution • Skeletons — TV movie • Leather Jacket Love Story • Lurid Tales: The Castle Queen — as Ellen Cabot • 1998 — Shrieker — as Victoria Sloan • Curse of the Puppet Master — as Victoria Sloan • Talisman — as Victoria Sloan • Frankenstein Reborn! — as Julian Breen • 1999 — The Killer Eye — as Richard Chasen • Teenage Alien Avengers • Witchouse — as Jack Reed • Totem — as Martin Tate • Retro Puppet Master — as Joseph Tennent • 2000 — Ancient Evil: Scream of the Mummy • Voodoo Academy • Prison of the Dead — as Victoria Sloan • 2001 — The Brotherhood • Micro Mini Kids — Uncredited • Final Stab • The Brotherhood II: Young Warlocks • 2002 — The Frightening • The Brotherhood III: Young Demons • Wolves of Wall Street • 2003 — Leeches! • Speed Demon • 2004 — Ring of Darkness — TV movie • Tomb of Terror — Segment 3: "Evil Never Dies" • The Sisterhood • 2005 — The Brotherhood IV: The Complex • Possessed — as Jack Reed • Killer Bash — TV movie • Witches of the Caribbean • Frankenstein & the Werewolf Reborn! — as Julian Breen • 2006 — Beastly Boyz — TV movie • 2007 — Grizzly Rage — TV movie • The Raven — TV movie • House of Usher • 2008 — Playing with Fire • 2009 — The Invisible Chronicles • The Brotherhood V: Alumni • The Brotherhood VI: Initiation • Alien Presence • Stem Cell • The Pit and the Pendulum • Nightfall • 2010 — Puppet Master: Axis of Evil • Body Blow — TV movie • 2011 — 1313: Wicked Stepbrother • 1313: Actor Slash Model • 1313: Boy Crazies • 1313: Haunted Frat • 1313: Nightmare Mansion — AKA: A Dream Within a Dream • 1313: Giant Killer Bees • Christmas Spirit — TV movie • Monty — Short film • 2012 — The Magic Puppy — TV movie; AKA: A Halloween Puppy; as Mary Crawford • 1313: Cougar Cult • 1313: Bigfoot Island • Snow White: A Deadly Summer • 1313: UFO Invasion • 1313: Bermuda Triangle • 1313: Billy the Kid • 1313: Hercules Unbound! • 1313: Night of the Widow • 1313: Frankenqueen • 2: Voodoo Academy • Immortal Kiss: Queen of the Night • 2013 — Santa's Summer House — as Mary Crawford • A Talking Cat!?! — as Mary Crawford • An Easter Bunny Puppy — as Mary Crawford • Badass Showdown • A Talking Pony!?! • My Stepbrother is a Vampire!?! • Bonnie & Clyde: Justified • Hansel and Gretel: Warriors of Witchcraft • 2014 — 3 Scream Queens • Doc Holliday's Revenge • 3 Wicked Witches • 666: Kreepy Kerry • 666: Devilish Charm • 90210 Shark Attack • Bigfoot vs. D.B. Cooper • Spidora • Knock 'Em Dead • Stranded • 2016 — The Wrong Roommate — TV movie • The Wrong Child — TV movie • Sorority Slaughterhouse • Asian Ghost Story • Bloody Blacksmith • A Husband for Christmas — TV movie • 666: Teen Warlock — TV movie • Evil Exhumed • 2017 — Deadly Lessons — TV movie • Swamp Freak • The Wrong Crush • Blood Dynasty • The Ugly Christmas Sweater — TV short • Runaway Christmas Bride — TV movie • Delivering Christmas — TV short • Runaway Christmas Bride • A Royal Christmas Ball — TV movie • A Christmas Cruise — TV movie • The Wrong Student — TV movie • The Wrong Man — TV movie • My Christmas Grandpa — TV short • Femaliens: Seduction of the Species — as Ellen Cabot • Witness Protection • 2018 — The Wrong Cruise — TV movie • The Wrong Friend — TV movie • Puppet Master: Blitzkrieg Massacre • The Wrong Teacher — TV movie • Bunker of Blood: Chapter 5: Psycho Slideshow • Bunker of Blood; Chapter 6: Zombie Lust: Night Flesh • 2019 — My Mother's Stalker • The Wrong Stepmother — TV movie • The Wrong Boy Next Door — TV movie • The Wrong Mommy — TV movie • The Wrong Tutor — TV movie • The Wrong Cheerleader — TV movie • Carole's Christmas — TV movie • Christmas Matchmakers — TV movie • 2020 — The Wrong House Sitter — TV movie • The Wrong Wedding — TV movie • The Wrong Stepfather — TV movie • The Wrong Cheerleader Coach — TV movie • Christmas Together — TV movie • A Christmas for Mary — TV movie • 2021 — The Wrong Real Estate Agent — TV movie • The Wrong Fiancé — TV movie • The Wrong Mr. Right — TV movie • The Wrong Prince Charming — TV movie • The Wrong Valentine — TV movie • Deceived by my Mother-In-Law — TV movie • Mommy's Deadly Con Artist — TV movie • Sinister Stepfather — TV movie • The Wrong Cheer Captain — TV movie • 2021-2022 — Keeping up with the Joneses — 7 episodes • 2022 — The Wrong Blind Date — TV movie • The Wrong High School Sweetheart — TV movie • Killer Design — TV movie • 2023 — Honeymoon in Paradise • If I Can't Have You — TV movie • As Luck Would Have It — 3 episodes • A Christmas Intern — TV movie • 2024 — The Wrong Life Coach — TV movie • Tall, Dark, and Dangerous — TV movie • 2025 — The Wrong Obsession — TV movie
Works documented in more than one form
Catalogued output
Works documented in more than one form
4 titles are catalogued under more than one form, which is to say the registers hold them both as a work and as a distinct object, score, recording or edition. Where a title is documented in several forms the evidence behind it is correspondingly wider, and the article treats those forms as separate records of the same work rather than as separate works.
The Brotherhood
2000 — catalogued as film and film series
The Wrong Student
2017 — catalogued as film and television film
The Wrong Tutor
2019 — catalogued as film and television film
The Wrong Stepmother
2019 — catalogued as film and television film
Films and moving-image works, 1985–2019
Catalogued output
Films and moving-image works, 1985–2019
These entries are catalogued as moving-image works. The 2010s are the densest part of the run, with 29 titles, and that concentration is a fact about what the registers have catalogued rather than a judgement on the work itself. They belong to a run of 82 titles in all, from 1985 to 2019. A selection is set out below and the complete run may be opened beneath it.
80 films carry dates between 1985 and 2019
The run opens with New Wave Hustlers and closes with The Wrong Boy Next Door
New Wave Hustlers
1985
Creepozoids
1987
Nightmare Sisters
1987
Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama
1988
Lady Avenger
1988
Alien
1989
Deadly Embrace
1989
Toulon's Revenge
1991
Beach Babes from Beyond
1993
Prehysteria trilogy
1993
The complete catalogue · 60
80 films carry dates between 1985 and 2019
The run opens with New Wave Hustlers and closes with The Wrong Boy Next Door
New Wave Hustlers
1985
Creepozoids
1987
Nightmare Sisters
1987
Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama
1988
Lady Avenger
1988
Alien
1989
Deadly Embrace
1989
Toulon's Revenge
1991
Beach Babes from Beyond
1993
Prehysteria trilogy
1993
Blonde Heaven
1995
Leather Jacket Love Story
1997
Skeletons
1997
Absolution
1997
Curse of the Puppet Master
1998
Frankenstein Reborn
1998
Shrieker
1998
Talisman
1998
Retro Puppet Master
1999
Alien Arsenal
1999
Totem
1999
Witchouse
1999
The Killer Eye
1999
Castle of the Dead
2000
Scream of the Mummy
2000
Frankenstein & the Werewolf Reborn!
2000
Voodoo Academy
2000
Final Stab
2001
The Brotherhood II
2001
Wolves of Wall Street
2002
The Frightening
2002
The Brotherhood III
2003
Speed Demon
2003
Leeches!
2003
The Sisterhood
2004
Ring of Darkness
2004
The Brotherhood IV
2005
Killer Bash
2005
Swimming Pool 2
2005
Witches of the Caribbean
2005
Beastly Boyz
2006
Grizzly Rage
2007
House of Usher
2008
Playing with Fire
2008
The Brotherhood VI
2009
The Brotherhood V
2009
The Pit and the Pendulum
2009
The Invisible Chronicles
2009
Alien Presence
2009
Axis of Evil
2010
A Deadly Summer
2012
2: Voodoo Academy
2012
The Great Halloween Puppy Adventure
2012
A Talking Cat!?!
2013
My Stepbrother Is a Vampire!?!
2013
90210 Shark Attack
2014
666: Kreepy Kerry
2014
Jackson
2014
A further 7 recorded entries stand behind this article and are held on the record.
Film
Film
• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1983 — Angel — Jean Jacket Criminal in Line-Up — Uncredited • Games — Dick McCabe — Uncredited • 1984 — Good Men Go Bad • 1989 — Robot Ninja — Russ Mazzola • 1990 — Crash and Burn — ILU Member — Uncredited • 1993 — Beach Babes from Beyond — City Worker — Uncredited • 2003 — Leeches! — Franklin / Walkie Talkie Voice — Uncredited • 2008 — Gingerdead Man 2: Passion of the Crust — Self • 2013 — I Am Divine — Self • 2014 — Trophy Heads — Juicy Stand Customer • Bigfoot vs. D.B. Cooper — Pilot — Voice role; credited as Ellen Cabot • 2015 — Evil Bong 420 — Self • 2016 — Evil Bong: High 5 — Self • 2017 — The Disaster Artist — David DeCoteau — Uncredited • Puppet Master: Axis Termination — Flamboyant Nazi #1 • 2019 — Weedjies: Halloweed Night — Party Guest • 2020 — Tales of the Uncanny — Self
Films and moving-image works without a settled date
Catalogued output
Films and moving-image works without a settled date
2 further films are catalogued under DeCoteau's name without a date the collections agree on, which is why they are set apart from the dated run rather than placed in it.
The Wrong Teacher
Primary material
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reference work
- “David DeCoteau”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q11319: David DeCoteau
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Awards and nominations
• Year — Award — Category — Nominated work — Result — Ref • 2008 — GayVN Awards — Hall of Fame
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Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Horn, John. Live and die in LA. The Guardian. 12 October 2002.
- 2.David DeCoteau. The New York Times. 2014.
- 3.David DeCoteau. British Film Institute.
- 4.DeCoteau, David. Private Parts. Scream Factory. 2023.
- 5.Here TV. Cinema Conversations: David DeCoteau. May 1, 2020.
- 6.Sloan, Will. Meet David DeCoteau, the King of Homoerotic On Demand Schlock. Flavorwire. 2014-10-28.
- 7.The Video Graveyard: David DeCoteau: On Rapid Heart, Fake Names & B-Movies. www.thevideograveyard.com.
- 8.Rapidheart.com. Official Website for David DeCoteau's films.
- 9."Leather Jacket" Success Story: A Conversation with director David DeCoteau. Indiewire. 20 February 1998.
- 10.Original Productions. Severin Films.
- 11.Mark Deming. The Killer Eye. The New York Times. 2016.
- 12.Robert Firsching. Witchouse. The New York Times. 2016.
- 13.Davies, Steven. Horror Asylum Interview. Horror-asylum.com.
- 14.Afterelton.com. Interview at AfterElton. 2006-10-31.
- 15.90210 Shark Attack Takes a Bite Out of Home Video
- 16.Sinister Stepfather (2021) MUBI.
- 17.GayVN Awards (2008). IMDb.
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The authorities additionally record the headings Julian Breen, DeCoteau, Ellen Cabot, Richard Chasen and Martin Tate.
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