Full Moon Features is a motion picture production and distribution company headed by B-movie veteran Charles Band. It is most known for the direct-to-video series Puppet Master and Subspecies, as well as the innovative VideoZone featurette at the end of films through 1991 to 2000. Image File history File linksMetadata Fullmoonfeatures. ... The term B-movie originally referred to a film designed to be distributed as the lower half of a double feature, often a genre film featuring cowboys, gangsters or vampires. ... Charles Band (b. ... Puppet Master is a horror film released in 1989 by newly formed Full Moon Features. ... Poster art for original Subspecies film Subspecies is a series of Full Moon Pictures horror films that was released in the 1990s. ...

Full Moon Productions/Entertainment (1989-1995)

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After the collapse of Band's previous film studio, Empire Pictures, he relocated to the United States and opened Full Moon Productions. Band's goal with Full Moon was to create low budget horror, sci-fi, and fantasy films while retaining a somewhat big budget look. In the United States, Full Moon teamed with Paramount Pictures and Pioneer Home Entertainment for direct-to-video releasing on VHS and Laserdisc, and the first release was the feature film directed by David Schmoeller, Puppet Master in 1989. Image File history File links FullMoonEntertainment. ... Image File history File links FullMoonEntertainment. ... Empire Picture was the former production company of Charles Band. ... DVD cover showing horror characters as depicted by Universal Studios. ... Sci-fi is an abbreviation for science fiction. ... Fantasy is a genre of art that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. ... Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and distribution company, based in Hollywood, California. ... Geneon, formerly known as Pioneer Entertainment (or Pioneer LDC) and also a former subsidiary of Pioneer Corporation, is a home entertainment production and distribution company. ... A film that is released direct-to-video (also straight-to-video) is one which has been released to the public on home video formats first rather than first being released in movie theaters. ... Bottom view of VHS cassette with magnetic tape exposed Top view of VHS cassette with front casing removed The Vertical Helical Scan, better known by its abbreviation VHS (and often confused to be Video Home System) is a recording and playing standard for analog video cassette recorders (VCRs), developed by... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Puppet Master turned out to be a huge hit for Full Moon. However, at the end of the film was a featurette entitled No Strings Attached, which documents the making of Puppet Master. It featured interviews with cast and crew members, including actor Paul Le Mat and Charles Band himself. The next three releases - Shadowzone, Meridian: Kiss of the Beast, and Crash and Burn (changing to Full Moon Entertainment with the release of the latter) - all featured a making-of presentation after the film. Paramount, however, did not believe in the making-of concept, and forced Band to pay for all of the additional tape needed. Paul Le Mat (born September 22, 1946) is an actor who first came to prominence in the 1973 film American Graffiti . ... Crash and Burn is the debut single by Belgian singer Jan Leyers. ...

Full Moon's VideoZone

With the fifth Full Moon release, Puppet Master II, in 1991, Full Moon introduced VideoZone, a behind-the-scenes video magazine. The average VideoZone featured an introduction by Charles Band, the making-of of the "movie you just watched", an interview with someone involved in a future Full Moon release, merchandise (such as Full Moon t-shirts, posters, and other assorted goods), trailers, and contact information. VideoZone tied together the "comic book feel" that Band insisted with the Full Moon product. Image File history File links Videozonetitle. ... Image File history File links Videozonetitle. ... Puppet Master is a horror film released in 1989 by newly formed Full Moon Features. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ...

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Full Moon continued churning out releases throughout the early 90's (sometimes as many as 12 releases a year), and even branched off to include two more labels: Torchlight Entertainment, specializing in soft-core pornographic sci-fi comedies, and Moonbeam Entertainment, specializing in family orientated sci-fi and fantasy films; both labels founded in 1993. Torchlight's first release was the easy described Beach Babes From Beyond, and Moonbeam's was Prehysterisa!, which actually became a very high seller for distributor Paramount, and was one of the first Full Moon films to be sold as a sell-through product (most Full Moon features were sold as rental items, with prices upwards to $100 for each film on VHS for brand new editions). Image File history File links Moonbeamlogo. ... Image File history File links Moonbeamlogo. ... Softcore is a form of pornography that is less explicit than hardcore pornography in depicting or describing sexual behaviour. ... Comedy is the use of humour in the performing arts. ... The Prehysteria trilogy was a trilogy of family-oriented films made in the early-to-mid-1990s about five miniture baby dinosaurs named after musicians having adventures in modern times. ...

During this time, Full Moon released two films on a very limited theatrical release: Shrunken Heads, a very comic book like tale of three kids murdered and brought back to life by a voodoo practitioner, and Oblivion, a sci-fi western. Both of these films did eventually make it to home video, including a VideoZone for Shrunken Heads, but not Oblivion. The sequel however, did get a VideoZone. i like western films The Western is an American genre in literature and film. ...

Full Moon Studios/Pictures (1995-2002)

In 1995, due to the Direct to Video market losing interest in the rental market, as well as internal issues, Full Moon Entertainment separated from distributor Paramount. Full Moon cited that their Halloween 1995 release, Castle Freak, was to be released unrated, and Paramount had a policy against that. However, Paramount had released films unrated before that, so Full Moon's legitimate reasoning for separating from Paramount is one that is still discussed amongst genre fans to this day. 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Renting is an agreement where a payment is made for the temporary use of a good owned by another person or company. ... Halloween or Halloween is a tradition celebrated on the night of October 31, most notably by children dressing in costumes and going door-to-door collecting sweets, fruit, and other gifts. ... Castle Freak is a film directed by Stuart Gordon, roughly based upon the short-story The Outsider by H.P. Lovecraft. ...

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After the releases of Castle Freak and Oblivion 2: Backlash, Band renamed Full Moon Entertainment as Full Moon Studios for the feature Vampire Journals, and the name Full Moon Pictures for the following film, Hideous!. Band continued to distribute all films on his own under then name of Amazing Fantasy Entertainment, until around 1999, when some of the films began being distributed by Kusher-Locke Entertainment. Image File history File linksMetadata Castlefreakdvd. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Castlefreakdvd. ... Bottom view of VHS cassette with magnetic tape exposed Top view of VHS cassette with front casing removed The Vertical Helical Scan, better known by its abbreviation VHS (and often confused to be Video Home System) is a recording and playing standard for analog video cassette recorders (VCRs), developed by... Vampire Journals is a 1997 film produced by Full Moon Studios. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

With the release of Shrieker in 1998, Band enlisted the help of Ohio-based filmmaker and Tempe Entertainment founder J.R. Bookwalter, who recently moved to California. Bookwalter was commissioned by Band to begin editing features, including Curse of the Puppet Master. Curse of the Puppet Master is widely considered the worst of all of the Puppet Master films as the film reuses previous scenes and snippets to make a feature length film. However, Bookwalter's work got Full Moon noticed on Apple.com, as a story was published about how Bookwalter edited Curse of the Puppet Master on his iBook in a hotel room in Ohio. Shrieker is a 1998 horror movie directed by David DeCoteau. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Official language(s) None Capital Columbus Largest city Columbus Largest metro area Cleveland Area  Ranked 34th  - Total 44,825 sq mi (116,096 km²)  - Width 220 miles (355 km)  - Length 220 miles (355 km)  - % water 8. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... Puppet Master is a horror film released in 1989 by newly formed Full Moon Features. ... The original Blueberry iBook The iBook was a line of laptop computers sold by Apple Computer between 1999 and 2006. ...

Full Moon continued churning out releases, and even introduced more labels:

• Alchemy Entertainment/Big City Pictures - specializing in urban horror and sci-fi films.
• Surrender Cinema - replacing Torchlight Entertainment, specializing in the same soft-core sci-fi as Torchlight.
• Cult Video - mainly used to re-release old pre-Empire and Empire era Band films.
• Pulp Fantasy Productions - New films that don't fit the usual Full Moon mold.
• Pulsepounders - Replacing Moonbeam Entertainment, specializing in sci-fi and fantasy films for families.

Bookwalter would eventually get the chance to direct a Full Moon film with the sequel to Witchouse, Witchouse 2: Blood Coven. It was Bookwalter's first film on 35mm, and with it, opened a new door for Bookwalter's Tempe Entertainment. Breakdancer in Ljubljana, Slovenia. ... Simulated 35 mm film with soundtracks _ The outermost strips (on either side) contain the SDDS soundtrack as an image of a digital signal. ...

Starting with HorrorVision, Tempe Entertainment was hired to produce Full Moon films for Band. All of these films were shot on DV, a first for Full Moon, and were mostly made for under $60,000 (with Witchouse 3: Demon Fire created for $26,000) and had ridiculous schedules, with films being shot in sometimes as little as nine days. While the negatives were amazingly high in every situation, it gave much needed exposure to Tempe, who were use to producing films on shoestring budgets, as well as gave Full Moon a cheap route to stay in business. A MiniDV tape For other uses, see DV (disambiguation). ...

Once again, the industry was changing, and Band decided to end the Full Moon label with the 2002 release of Jigsaw.

William Shatner's Full Moon Fright Night DVD Sell Sheet

During this era of Full Moon, Band secured a weekly television series on the Sci-Fi Channel called William Shatner's Full Moon Fright Night. Veteran actor Shatner hosted Full Moon films with wraparounds, as well as interviews with many of sci-fi's most notable personalities, including Stan Lee and Jeffery Combs. Tempe also received exposure here as HorrorVision was one of the films included in the short lived series. Full Moon has planned on releasing some of episodes on DVD as of July 2006. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1220x1574, 1607 KB) William Shatners Full Moon Fright Night sell sheet. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1220x1574, 1607 KB) William Shatners Full Moon Fright Night sell sheet. ... A week is a unit of time longer than a day and shorter than a month. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... William Bill Shatner (born March 22, 1931) is an Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning Canadian actor, who gained fame for his starring role as Captain James T. Kirk of the USS Enterprise in the television show Star Trek from 1966 to 1969 and in seven of the subsequent movies. ... Stan The Man Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber on December 28, 1922 [1] New York, New York) is an American writer, editor, Chairman Emeritus of Marvel Comics, and memoirist, who — with several artist co-creators, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko — introduced complex, naturalistic characters and a thoroughly shared... Jeffrey Combs Jeffrey Combs (born 9 September 1954) is a character actor best known for his horror film roles. ... Early elections in November are announced in the Netherlands. ...

With the release of 2000's The Dead Hate the Living!, Band dropped the VideoZone name and went with a generic behind-the-scenes featurette. Rumors once again circled amongst fans, with no clear reason ever being given on why the VideoZone was dropped. This article is about the year 2000. ... The Dead Hate the Living! is a 2000 zombie film from writer/director Dave Parker. ...

Shadow Films/Entertainment and Wizard Video (2002-2004)

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Blockbuster Entertainment, a long time supporter of the Full Moon brand, requested the company producer a slasher film, due to the late 90's resurgence thanks to Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer. However, Band wanted to keep the sanctity of the Full Moon name (no human-on-human killing, always a creature or puppet/doll), and with the help of an uncredited Tempe, produced Bleed, as well as picking up Keith Walley's Scared and renaming it Cut Throat. Image File history File linksMetadata Shadowfilmslogo. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Shadowfilmslogo. ... Blockbuster logo Blockbuster Video, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, USA, is the name of the largest chain of video tape, video game and DVD rental shops in Canada, the US, the UK, Australia, Germany and Taiwan. ... The slasher film is a sub-genre of horror film typically involving a masked, psychopathic killer who stalks and graphically murders a series of victims in a random, unprovoked fashion, usually teenagers or young adults who are away from adult supervision and involved in illicit activities (e. ... Scream is a 1996 parody of the horror film genre, directed by Wes Craven and written by Kevin Williamson. ... I Know What You Did Last Summer is a 1997 horror film. ... Bleed is a 2002 direct-to-DVD horror film starring Debbie Rochon, Danny Wolske, Brinke Stevens, Julie Strain, Lloyd Kaufman, Orly Tepper, Ronnie Gene Blevins and Allen Nabors. ...

Band only produced only two more films "officially" under the Shadow name (Birthrite, Delta Delta Die!) another another Keith Walley film, Speck, and William Shatner's DV opus Groom Lake, produced by J.R. Bookwalter, and one of the most expensive films of the modern era of Full Moon. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

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Band also decided around this time to bring back an old label used in the Empire names named Wizard Video, which distributed cult-like films. This modern rendition only saw the release of Tempe's Skinned Alive and Ozone (renamed Street Zombies for the Wizard release). However, due to low sales, another Tempe film, Bloodletting (which was also renamed: I've Killed Before), was never released under the Wizard label, and was dropped from the release schedule. In the case of Ozone, director J.R. Bookwalter stated his dissatisfaction with Full Moon renaming the film, saying "Okay let's kick things off by telling everyone this movie is not called fucking Street Zombies, for God's sakes, its called Ozone!" Image File history File links Wizardvideologo. ... Image File history File links Wizardvideologo. ... Cult film is a colloquial term for a film that has accrued a highly devoted group of fans. ...

The Return of Full Moon Pictures and Birth of Full Moon Features (2004-Present)

In late 2003, Band began work on his first 35mm film in years, Dr. Moreau's House of Pain. The film, released in January 2004, also marked the official return of the name Full Moon Pictures. However, the film's video releases all contain the name of Shadow Entertainment, but the film's trailer contains the Full Moon Pictures logo. 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... January 2004 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Irelands Roman Catholic and Protestant Boy Scouts organisations merge after nearly a century of division, in spite of efforts by the Roman Catholic bishops to block the merger. ...

Quickly after the release of Dr. Moreau's House of Pain, Full Moon released Puppet Master: The Legacy, a "greatest hits" film that contained the best scenes from all (up to that point) seven Puppet Master films with about 20 minutes of a wrap around story and very bad puppet effects (strings can rods can be seen in almost every scene featuring the puppets). Once again, all video releases said Shadow Entertainment, but the trailer contained the Full Moon Pictures logo.

Aliens Gone Wild! DVD Artwork

On the heels of Puppet Master: The Legacy, Band quickly cut together Tomb of Terror, Horrific, and Urban Evil. These three films, edited by HorrorVision director Danny Draven, were clip shows that showed off the best in Full Moon's library. Image File history File linksMetadata AliensGoneWild. ... Image File history File linksMetadata AliensGoneWild. ...

After the release of those above mentioned films, Band re-christened the Full Moon name to Full Moon Features. Full Moon Features intends to take more time making films, with considerably higher budgets and on 35mm film, and as of July 2006, has focused on that, with the exceptions of When Puppets and Dolls Attack!, Monsters Gone Wild!, and Aliens Gone Wild! (all clip shows).

In 2005, Band also embarked on a road show entitled Charles Band's Full Moon Horror Road Show, bringing along puppets and dolls from his films, including The Gingerdead Man and Doll Graveyard. Gingerdead Man is a film starring Gary Busey revolving around the plot of a killer having his ashes mixed with dough to becoming a murderous cookie. ... Doll Graveyard is a 2005 movie by Full Moon Features. ...

September of 2006 marks the beginning of Band's second Road Show tour. On the tour, talks from Band himself, appearances from the stars of his films, and exclusive merchandise will be made available. The tour also serves as promotion for the next upcomming Full Moon films, Evil Bong and Dead Man's Hand.

Notable Releases

• Puppet Master - Full Moon's first franchise, inspired from an earlier Empire film, Dolls, and United Artists' success with Child's Play the year prior. Spawned eight sequels, including one not produced by Full Moon: Puppet Master II, Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge, Puppet Master 4, and Puppet Master 5: The Final Chapter during the Full Moon Entertainment era, Curse of the Puppet Master and Retro Puppet Master during the Full Moon Pictures era, and Puppet Master: The Legacy during the second Full Moon Pictures run. A Sci-Fi Channel produced Puppet Master vs. Demonic Toys aired around Christmas 2004 and was released on DVD by Anchor Bay Entertainment in 2006.
• Subspecies - Full Moon's take on the Dracula story. It currently consists of Subspecies, Bloodstone: Subspecies II, Bloodlust: Subspecies III, and Subspecies 4: Bloodstorm (released during the Full Moon Pictures era). Fans of the series also consider Vampire Journals as an entry as well.
• Trancers - A carry over from Band's days at Empire, under the Full Moon name, he produced Trancers II, Trancers III, Trancers 4 & Trancers 5. Trancers 6 was created by Jay Woelfel's Young Wolf Productions and was distributed by Band under the Full Moon Pictures label.
• Doctor Mordrid - Originally going to be based on Marvel Comic's Doctor Strange, one of Full Moon's "flashier" films.
• Demonic Toys - a rip off of their own Puppet Master franchise, created a cross sequel called Dollman Vs. Demonic Toys featuring characters from Demonic Toys, Dollman, and Bad Channels.
• The Pit & The Pendulum - Directed by Re-Animator's Stuart Gordon, a retelling of the classic Edgar Allan Poe story.
• Prehysteria! - Family sci-fi film about mini dinosaurs that come to life.
• The Dead Hate the Living! - Full Moon's first zombie film, received notable coverage in various horror magazines.
• Groom Lake - William Shatner's show about a dying woman who receives a visit from aliens. Only notable given the name and the stories behind it, as the film received mostly negative reviews.

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Trivia

Full Moon Playthings promo photo with Charles Band

• In 2000, Full Moon released the Puppet Master box set on DVD. However, Paramount still owned all rights to distribution, and sent a cease and desist letter to Full Moon. The box set is now very rare, and has gone up to $300 on eBay.
• In the late 90's, Full Moon started Full Moon Toys, and began releasing action figures from various franchises, including the puppets from Puppet Master and Radu from Subspecies. They are currently bringing the line back as Full Moon Playthings.
• It has been rumored that Intruder, a slasher film distributed by Paramount in the late 80's was the "gateway" for Paramount to pick up Full Moon. It was directed by Scott Spiegel and had cameos by Bruce Campbell and Sam Raimi.
• To celebrate 10 years of business in 2000, Full Moon created a small three minute video called 10 Years of Madness showing clips from various Full Moon films. Interestingly, some of the films shown in this video Full Moon does not own the rights to, including Re-Animator, From Beyond, Dolls, Ghoulies. Band used a modified version of this video on the Charles Band's Full Moon Horror Road Show in 2005.
• Many people involved with Full Moon during the Full Moon Pictures era have much contempt for the company, but however, praise what Band did to promote the company during the Paramount years.
• Artisan Entertainment released Oblivion on DVD in 2002. The release did cite Full Moon Entertainment as the production company. Rumors circled that Full Moon sold a ton of rights to their films to Kusher-Locke, who ended up being purchased by Artisan, who is now owned by Lion's Gate. For some reason, the DVD has been discontinued.
• In the early 90's, Full Moon released soundtracks to several of their films on CD and cassette under the name Moonstone Records. Charles Band's brother Richard Band produced many of the soundtracks, but others were involved as well.
• More recently, several of Full Moon's well-known earlier films, such as the Trancers and Demonic Toys series have been released on DVD in Australia by a company called Kangaroo Films. Although ostensibly Australian discs, they are notably region-free and in NTSC rather than Australia's native PAL TV system, possibly to circumvent legal issues with Paramount, who forced discontinuation of the Puppet Master boxset.
• Full Moon was the model for "Full Eclipse" in the film Free Enterprise.

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External links

• Full Moon Features Official Web Site
• Full Moon Direct Official On-line Store
• Charles Band's Official Web Site
• Tempe Entertainment Official Web Site
• Puppet Master vs. Demonic Toys Product Page @ Anchorbayentertainment.com
• Charles Bands myspace