The Science Fiction Horror and Fantasy Film Review
David DeCoteau (b 1962- ) – American low-budget director.
David DeCoteau is a director specialising in low-budget genre fare. He began working for Charles Band at Empire Productions and continued at Empire’s successor Full Moon Productions. There he made a steady output of low-budget horror and occasionally science-fiction films with titles that include Sorority Babes at the Slimeball Bowl-o-Rama (1988), Puppetmaster III: Toulon’s Revenge (1991), Beach Babes from Beyond (1993) and Test Tube Teens from the Year 2000 (1994), among others.
towards the end of the 90s, DeCoteau began to work independently and specialised in horror films with a softcore gay content – filled lots of scenes of young good-looking men without shirts on tumbling together and endlessly showering. By the late 2010s, DeCoteau had abandoned that a a good deal of genre content and now seems to specialise in Christmas tv movies and Lifetime Channel thrillers.
DeCoteau has made films under a variety of pseudonyms, including Ellen Cabot, Richard Chasen, Julian Breen and Victoria Sloan.
