Known for Directing
Steven Kostanski is a Canadian filmmaker, special effects artist and is part of the directing collective Astron-6. He is best known for directing the films Manborg (2011), The Void (2016), Leprechaun Returns (2018) and Psycho Goreman (2020).
Birthplace
Winnipeg, Canada
Filmography
88 films, 1 show


Deathstalker
2025 · 1h 43m
country: Canada
A powerful swordsman known as Deathstalker recovers a cursed amulet from a corpse-strewn battlefield. Marked by dark magic and hunted by monstrous assassins, he must face the rising evil and break the curse.


Frankie Freako
2024 · 1h 23m
country: Canada
After calling a late-night party hotline that promises out-of-this-world fun, uptight yuppie Conor Sweeney must battle the pint-sized forces of evil unleashed through his phone line, led by the maniacal rock n’ roll goblin FRANKIE FREAKO.


The Veggie Masher
2022 · 1m
country: United States
Short made for V/H/S/94 fully released on home media release of the film.


V/H/S/94
2021 · 1h 43m
country: United States
After the discovery of a mysterious VHS tape, a brutish police SWAT team launches a high-intensity raid on a remote warehouse, only to discover a sinister cult compound whose collection of pre-recorded material uncovers a nightmarish conspiracy.


PG: Psycho Goreman
2020 · 1h 35m
country: Canada
Siblings Mimi and Luke unwittingly resurrect an ancient alien overlord. Using a magical amulet, they force the monster to obey their childish whims, and accidentally attract a rogues’ gallery of intergalactic assassins to small-town suburbia.


Leprechaun Returns
2018 · 1h 33m
country: South Africa
A group of unwitting sorority sisters accidentally awaken the serial-killing Leprechaun after they build a sorority house on his hunting grounds.


Chowboys: An American Folktale
2018 · 8m
country: Canada
Three stupid cowboys are lost in the woods without any food on the coldest night of the year. Will they succumb to the cold, cannibalism, or the Christmas Spirit? Canada's infamous Astron-6 return to short form to challenge the very idea of storytelling. Grotesque. Absurd. Buñuel by way of Zuckers and Abrahams.


Divorced Dad
2018 · 51m
country: Unknown
A newly single man eases the pain of his midlife crisis by launching a public access talk show.


The Void
2016 · 1h 30m
country: Canada
In the middle of a routine patrol, officer Daniel Carter happens upon a blood-soaked figure limping down a deserted stretch of road. He rushes the young man to a nearby rural hospital staffed by a skeleton crew, only to discover that patients and personnel are transforming into something inhuman. As the horror intensifies, Carter leads the other survivors on a hellish voyage into the subterranean depths of the hospital in a desperate bid to end the nightmare before it's too late.


ABCs of Death 2
2014 · 2h 4m
country: Brazil
Taking all that was great from the first instalment, the movie aims to be a wilder, leaner, faster-paced and even more entertaining anthology this time around, with a new crop of award-winning, visionary filmmakers from around the globe.


VHS Fever Dreams
2013 · 36m
country: Unknown
Previously thought lost forever, here in its full glory is 'VHS Fever Dreams'. A hallucinatory mixtape created by Jeremy and Steve for Nuit Blanch in 2013. How much do you dare watch?


Bio-Cop
2012 · 5m
country: Canada
A mutated cop deals with existential despair while running down drug dealers.


Manborg
2011 · 1h 10m
country: Canada
The evil Count Draculon and his army of demons have conquered Earth, but a young soldier who lost his life in the first war against Hell has reawakened in the future as MANBORG! Together with a crew of post-apocalyptic rebels, the half-man half-machine hero will fight to defeat Draculon and take back the planet!


Father's Day
2011 · 1h 39m
country: United States
Ahab, a man obsessed with exacting a brutal, violent revenge on the man who murdered his dad, joins John, an eager priest, and Twink, a hot-headed street hustler, on an epic quest to find and defeat this mythical monster known as Chris Fuchman AKA The Father's Day Killer.
Heart of Karl
Heart of Karl
2008 · 19m
country: Unknown
From Steven Kostanski, director of “Lazer Ghosts 2: Return to Laser Cove”, comes the story of two brothers who must fight to escape an unholy institution populated with an endless sea of ghoulish creatures. Will Max (Conor Sweeney) be able to see past the disturbing condition of his brother Karl (Matthew Kennedy) and lead them to safety, or will his personal flaws trap them forever in a world of darkness and misery?
Goreblade: Warrior King of the Universe
Goreblade: Warrior King of the Universe
2008 · 6m
country: Unknown
Astron-6 Video's two-part miniseries "Goreblade" follows Goreblade, a hero that comes face to face with his arch-rival Ilias in a classic tale of adventure and epic shoulder pads.
Karl
Karl
2008 · 7m
country: Unknown
Joseph Kornelsen stars in this bizarre story of a young man who must fight for his soul against a being that defies logic, and makes a mockery of his very existence. Can the will and determination of one man defeat the all consuming power of KARL?
Lazer Ghosts 2: Return to Laser Cove
Lazer Ghosts 2: Return to Laser Cove
2008 · 10m
country: Canada
In this spectacular sci-fi sequel, the emotionally-fractured Trance must overcome the demons of his past and once again wage war on the evil spirit of Einstein and his army of laser-wielding ghosts. Together with the ghost of his dead comrade, a rogue cop and a sultry scientist, Trance must return to Laser Cove and make a final stand against the technologically-advanced forces of evil.
Insanophenia
Insanophenia
2007 · 10m
country: Unknown
Two dim-witted exterminators are about to find there are more disturbing things than the sexual advances of their maniacal supervisor as they descend into a nightmarish world of indescribable terror.
Fantasy Beyond
Fantasy Beyond
2006 · 8m
country: Unknown
A young girl has a life-changing experience at an art museum.