The only name of note in front of the camera is that of Robert Ginty who gained some minor B movie attention after appearing as the vigilante Vietnam Vet in The Exterminator (1980) but none of the other actors have ever been heard from again.Ĭharles Band has produced over 200 films.
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The surprise about The Alchemist is also the number of future personnel essential to Empire and Full Moon hiding out on the credits, including later to be director Ted Nicolaou, writer Alan Adler, and Doug White and Steve Neill who produced numerous effects for other Band productions. Moreover, though Robert Glaudini is set up as a villain at the start, he only ever makes an appearance again at the very end. Naturally, the goblins never do anything. (This of course presages the coming of Empire, where the Bands build a whole series of films out around the provision of cheap goblin effects most notably with Ghoulies (1985) and sequels). About the one-hour point, there are some cheap goblin effects – although these only appear for a single scene and you feel they are shoehorned on just so the film can have some creature effects. Robert Ginty is supposedly cursed to be an animal, which suggests some kind of werewolf transformation, although we never see this. You spend nearly half the show waiting to find where it is going. Crucially, it is a film where almost nothing happens. The Alchemist however is dull in all regards. Most of the Charles Band’s films are cheaply made, some of them quite amusing. (See below for a list of Charles Band’s other genre films as director). In the subsequent years, Charles Band went onto great success with Empire and other companies like Full Moon Productions as producer and occasional director of entire series of low-budget genre films such as Ghoulies, Trancers, Subspecies and Dollman.
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Between the time the film was shot and released, Band and his father Albert formed Empire Productions with the intent of producing and distributing genre films and The Alchemist was their first release. The numbering differs in that the film was shot in 1981 but did not see release until 1983. The Alchemist was the third (or maybe the fifth) film directed by Charles Band.
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