Full Moon Features - Notable Releases

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 seven sequels: 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 Full Moon Features era. A Made for TV film titled ' 'Puppet Master vs. Demonic Toys' ' was also released for Sci Fi Channel in 2004; this was under the Shadow Entertainment era as well. Currently planned for 2009 (as of February 7, 2009) is Puppet Master: Axis of Evil.

• Subspecies - Full Moon's take on vampires. 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 Johnnie J. Young and Jay Woelfel's Young Wolf Productions and was distributed by Band under the Full Moon Pictures label.

• Killjoy - Focuses on the titular Killjoy, a demonic clown who is summoned to assist revenge plots in all three films, only to prove too overwhelming for each character who calls him.

• 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. And released January 2010 Demonic Toys: Personal Demons.

• Doctor Mordrid - Originally going to be based on Marvel Comics' Doctor Strange, one of Full Moon's "flashier" films.

• Dragonworld - Released by Moonbeam Entertainment, and directed by Subspecices series's Ted Nicolaou, a young child named John McGowan, who finds a Dragon, who names him: "Yowler" and becomes friends with him, after John moved to Scotland, from losing his parents in a traffic accident. The sequel, Dragonworld: The Legend Continues was released by The Kushner-Locke Company in the United States under the title "Shadow of the Knight".

• The Pit and 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.

• Gingerdead Man - The newest Full Moon franchise, with the first installment starring Gary Busey, who plays a criminal who is sent to the electric chair, comes back to life as a Gingerbread Man, and goes out to kill the woman who sent him to jail. Followed by Gingerdead Man 2: Passion of the Crust, and currently planned for 2009 (as of February 7, 2009), Gingerdead Man 3: Saturday Night Cleaver. The series is very much played with a tongue-in-cheek mentality.