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Charles Pinion

Charles Pinion

Directing

Biography

Charles Pinion is a visual artist and director who made the punk rock skateboard zombie movie Twisted Issues, the post-Cinema of Transgression witches in the snow movie Red Spirit Lake, and the gritty San Francisco cannibal movie We Await.

Known For

Conceiving Ada
4.7

Emmy Coer, a computer genius, devises a method of communicating with the past by tapping into undying information waves. She manages to reach the world of Ada Lovelace, founder of the idea of a computer language and proponent of the possibilities of the "difference engine." Ada's ideas were stifled and unfulfilled because of the reality of life as a woman in the nineteenth century. Emmy has a plan to defeat death and the past using her own DNA as a communicative agent to the past, bringing Ada to the present. But what are the possible ramifications?

Conceiving Ada

1999
Debbie Does Damnation
4.2

Debbie goes to Hell after committing suicide. Once there, she finds herself in the middle of a power struggle. The Devil asks her to get his horns back so that he can regain control of his realm.

Debbie Does Damnation

1999
One Night with You
1.5

As Jake Tarlow knows, sometimes things don't turn out as you'd like. You end up living in your car. Your bookie is going to smash your face in if you don't square up. Your best friend is obsessed with the Black Dahlia. Your only way out is a crazy old bastard with one foot in the grave and nothing to lose.

One Night with You

2006
Somebody's Mother
3.0

Two sisters struggle with what it means to be a mother. One after the sudden loss of her baby, the other with her own inability to care for her young child. Together they find hope in the face of tragedy.

Somebody's Mother

2016
American Mummy
4.3

The skeleton crew of a dig site remain over the weekend as they continue with research into a mummy they’ve found. One of them takes the research a little too far, performing a ritual to bring the spirit of the mummy back to life.

American Mummy

2014
Metal Noir
5.0

Laurel Oberion thinks she's buying a nice house, but gets more than she bargained for! Haunted by a dead anthropologist and his satanic wife, Laurel's newfound home turns into a bloodbath of sexual desires when pain and pleasure mix indiscriminately. A basement of terror hides the secret... blood flows as human sacrifice leads to resurrection of a Dark God... and only Laurel can stop it before it's too late! Writer's block becomes psychotic madness in METAL NOIR, where blood-spattered sex leads to face-stabbing gore!

Metal Noir

1990
The Revenge of Shitters
N/A

By the year 2027 the shitters have conquered the earth. Humankind has one hope: the shitters are determined to stop her.

The Revenge of Shitters

2024
Twisted Issues
7.6

A murdered skateboarding teen rises from the grave on his trusty board, unleashing a wave of outrageous revenge on those who wronged him.

Twisted Issues

1988
Red Spirit Lake
6.1

After a vengeful sorceress is tortured and killed by a corrupt industrialist looking to harness the spectral powers of Red Spirit Lake, her niece arrives in snow covered Angel Falls to settle her aunt's estate.

Red Spirit Lake

1993
Dirty
N/A

Inspired by and loosely based on the introduction to Blue Of Noon by Georges Bataille, the title was taken from the name of the main character. It is a short portrayal of one person's descent into a state of degradation. In spite of her affluence, Dirty is rendered helpless in the hands of those she sought to patronise. The shifting points of view of this film allow the viewer to experience the protagonist as she is seen by herself, and how the world sees her.

Dirty

1993
We Await
7.0

A con artist is held captive by an unhinged cannibal family that ingests copious quantities of hallucinogenic, green fungal goo covertly harnessed from an otherworldly, sentient crystal housed in their third floor apartment of horrors.

We Await

1996
Sometimes I Think We All Go Up In Smoke
N/A

A woman longs for one joyful Halloween with her family, but the ghosts of her past ignite a flame within her that she cannot control

Sometimes I Think We All Go Up In Smoke

2025
Birth of Industry
8.0

BIRTH OF INDUSTRY is a contemporary allegory that explores the dualism of industry and nature. Maya, a young woman, emerges mysteriously from the ocean to give birth to her son, Joseph. Joseph quickly grows from infancy to adolescence and ventures into the industrialized world leaving his Mother behind. In the desperate pursuit of her son, Maya is subjected to a series of torturous rituals that serve to corrupt her state of natural being. Joseph, now an adult and himself a by-product of industry, is discovered by Maya to be the chief mechanism of her suffering. In an act of cosmic retribution Maya unleashes her motherly powers reducing him to the infant he once was and takes him with her back into the ocean.

Birth of Industry

2004
Try Again
5.0

TRY AGAIN brings us into the mind of Walt Eichner, a middle-aged failure on the verge of ending it all. However, it turns out Walt isn’t any better at ending his life than he is at living it. Each attempt to formulate his grand demise is stymied by circumstance and bad planning, leading Walt to consider that suicide isn’t the neat solution he thought it would be.

Try Again

2015
Madball
N/A

Charles Pinion's student film. Part of the Feller Triptych. Shot in 1988 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Madball

1988
The Bitches
5.7

Two girls are in a sparsely furnished apartment, scantily clad, and being generally unpleasant to each other.

The Bitches

1992
Cornhole Armageddon
8.5

A mysterious cult leader inspires a nationwide craze for anal sex – a "Cornhole Armageddon" – where its followers become possessed with the Spirit of Sodomy, sprout glitter stigmata, foam at the mouth, and succumb to an overwhelming desire to sodomise each other.

Cornhole Armageddon

1999
Archer's Last Day
9.0

An angry factory worker, who had just been fired from his job, starts a rampage of sexual violence that causes him to be sent to hell. There he continues his sexual escapades, but all good things come to an end.

Archer's Last Day

1999