Portrait of Joe Castro

Directing

Joe Castro

Career

Active from 1994 to 2025, busiest in 2003 with 4 main titles.

Average score
GoodWatch score35/100
Highest rated
Poster for Xenophobia
Xenophobia
GoodWatch score43/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 20 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Energy: 6.6 versus catalog average 4.6EnergyHeart: 2.5 versus catalog average 4.2HeartHumor: 2.8 versus catalog average 2.6HumorWorld: 5.0 versus catalog average 5.6WorldCraft: 4.6 versus catalog average 5.3CraftStyle: 5.6 versus catalog average 5.9Style
Joe Castro Catalog average

Rarely in their work

  • Wholesome
    0.9, average 3.4
  • Family Dynamics
    2.6, average 4.8
  • Romance
    1.8, average 3.8
  • Historical
    0.8, average 2.6

Main genres

Select a genre to see those titles.

Recurring tags

  • Grotesque Imagery 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

69
Type
Role
Score
Decade
Genre
Group by

Upcoming

3 titles
Clown Motel 3: 3 Ways to Hell
Clown Motel 3: 3 Ways to Hell

as 'Jack's in the box' Killer Clown

Tin Roof
Tin Roof

as Sheriff Denny Majors

Demon Wind 2: The Serpent’s Coil
Demon Wind 2: The Serpent’s Coil

Special Effects

2020s

28 titles · average score 39
Name the Demon
Name the Demon (2025)
GoodWatch score 37

as Father Noah Marcus

H. P. Lovecraft's The Old Ones
H. P. Lovecraft's The Old Ones (2024)
GoodWatch score 38

Special Effects Makeup Artist

Elf in the Hood
Elf in the Hood (2024)

Prosthetics, Special Effects Makeup Artist

That's a Wrap
That's a Wrap (2023)
GoodWatch score 42

as Cop #2

Clownado
Clownado (2023)
GoodWatch score 45

Thanks

Mutilator 2
Mutilator 2 (2023)
GoodWatch score 36

Special Effects

The Beast Comes At Midnight
The Beast Comes At Midnight (2023)

Special Effects

Terror Toons 4
Terror Toons 4 (2022)

as Man Attacked by Bees

Appetite for Sin
Appetite for Sin (2022)

Special Effects

The Blue Drum
The Blue Drum (2022)
GoodWatch score 43

Prop Designer

Abominable
Abominable (2020)
GoodWatch score 24

Special Effects Makeup Artist

The Amityville Harvest
The Amityville Harvest (2020)
GoodWatch score 32

Special Effects

2010s

12 titles · average score 37
Xenophobia
Xenophobia (2019)
GoodWatch score 43

Director, Producer

Iron Sky: The Coming Race
Iron Sky: The Coming Race (2019)
GoodWatch score 37

Special Effects

The Haunting of La Llorona
The Haunting of La Llorona (2019)
GoodWatch score 30

Special Effects

RoboWoman
RoboWoman (2019)
GoodWatch score 23

Special Effects Key Makeup Artist, Special Effects

Nation's Fire
Nation's Fire (2019)
GoodWatch score 42

Special Effects Coordinator

It Wants Blood!
It Wants Blood! (2019)

Second Unit Director, Creature Design

Half-Cocked
Half-Cocked (2019)

Special Effects Supervisor, Visual Effects Editor

Lake Michigan Monster
Lake Michigan Monster (2018)
GoodWatch score 64

Creature Design

Personal Demons
Personal Demons (2018)

as Asylum Doctor

Terror Toons 3
Terror Toons 3 (2015)

Executive Producer, Editor

FrankenFake
FrankenFake (2014)

Director

The Summer of Massacre
The Summer of Massacre (2011)
GoodWatch score 24

as Michael Rose

2000s

22 titles · average score 36
Terror Toons 2
Terror Toons 2 (2007)
GoodWatch score 36

Special Effects Makeup Artist, Writer

The Young, the Gay and the Restless
The Young, the Gay and the Restless (2006)
GoodWatch score 40

Writer, Director

Terror Toons 1.5
Terror Toons 1.5 (2006)

Director

Another Gay Movie
Another Gay Movie (2006)
GoodWatch score 49

Special Effects Coordinator

Near Death
Near Death (2004)
GoodWatch score 27

Art Direction, Special Effects Coordinator

The Jackhammer Massacre
The Jackhammer Massacre (2004)
GoodWatch score 24

Writer, Special Effects Coordinator

Butchered
Butchered (2003)
GoodWatch score 40

Director, Special Effects Makeup Artist

Evil Unleashed
Evil Unleashed (2003)

Director, Special Effects

Maniacal
Maniacal (2003)

Special Effects Makeup Artist, Special Effects

Blood Sisters
Blood Sisters (2003)

Special Effects, Director

Terror Toons
Terror Toons (2002)
GoodWatch score 34

Director, Producer

Legend of the Chupacabra
Legend of the Chupacabra (2000)
GoodWatch score 41

Director, Producer

1990s

4 titles · average score 45
Campfire Tales
Campfire Tales (1997)
GoodWatch score 49

Special Effects Makeup Artist

Ceremony
Ceremony (1994)

Writer, Special Effects Coordinator

Evil Toons
Evil Toons (1992)
GoodWatch score 37

Special Effects Makeup Artist

Teenage Exorcist
Teenage Exorcist (1991)
GoodWatch score 48

Special Effects, Makeup Artist