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Founded by Charles Band in 1989, the production and distribution company Full Moon has sent a lot of highly entertaining movies out into the world over the decades, like the Puppet Master, Trancers, Gingerdead Man, Subspecies, and Killjoy franchises. Throughout January, they have been auctioning off a couple hundred items on Propstore – and with the auctions wrapping up in the next 24 hours or so, we figured this would be a good time to share the link, in case there are any items our JoBlo / Arrow in the Head readers would like to pick up. The Full Moon auctions can be found at This Link.

Notable items up for grabs include a distressed Leech Woman puppet from Puppet Master II, a Gingerdead Man puppet prototype, a Jack Attack puppet from Demonic Toys: Personal Demons, a Blade stunt puppet from Puppet Master: Axis Termination, a Baby Oopsie doll from Baby Oopsie, a baby...

Scary movies so campy you can’t help but love them.

With Halloween just around the corner, there are plenty of ways to keep the (haunted) spirit of the holiday alive as we move into the end of the year. One of those ways is with a subscription to Full Moon Features, a streaming service built for fans of bloody B-movies and cult cinema, particularly those who appreciate campy, over-the-top horror and sci-fi films. With 500+ titles, many of which come from B-movie veteran Charles Band and his 300+ producer credits, there’s a campy scary movie for every Halloween taste. So, here’s everything you need to know about Full Moon Features.

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Stars: Tobey Poser, John Adams, Maximum Portman, Aleksandar Trmcic, Olivera Perunicic, Marko Filipovic | Written by Tobey Poser, John Adams, Lulu Adams | Directed by Tobey Poser, John Adams

Hell Hole begins in 1814, somewhere in Serbia, where a bunch of Napoleon’s troops are lost and starving. A local woman wordlessly appears and offers them a horse. Since they aren’t in a position to look a gift horse in the mouth, they accept, and get ready to have their first meal in ages. Unfortunately for them, the gift horse is actually a Trojan Horse carrying a parasitic creature that appears to spread by sodomizing a potential host.

In modern-day Serbia, a fracking operation run by Emily and her foreman John finds itself cut off when the only road connecting them to civilization floods. With nothing else to do the crew, which also includes Emily’s nephew Teddy and a pair of...

The creative output of the Adams Family seems to be endless, and something as simple as a long road trip is enough to inspire their next big movie idea. It hasn’t even been a full rotation around the sun since the release of their last feature Where The Devil Roams, but husband and wife team John Adams and Toby Poser still somehow managed to make another, Hell Hole. The Adams proved to be experts in crafting witchy and supernatural horrors with The Deeper You Dig and Hellbender, but this time, they’re trying out something different with a creature feature far from the comforts of their home country.

Americans Emily (Toby Poser) and John (John Adams) are overseeing the beginning stages of an oil fracking operation in the Serbian countryside. They’re joined by Emily’s nephew and camp cook, Teddy, a duo of Slovenian environmental scientists, Sofija and...

After a twenty-five year wait, Full Moon was finally able to get writer/director Ted Nicolaou‘s Subspecies V: Blood Rise through production and out into the world last year – and now that the franchise is complete, Full Moon founder Charles Band has revealed that his company will be releasing a Subspecies Blu-ray box set next month… and the movies are going to be housed in a wooden coffin!

Band made the announcement in an episode of his YouTube series Full Moon Universe, and the video can be watched at the bottom of this article. The wooden coffin box set will contain Blu-ray copies of Subspecies, Bloodstone: Subspecies II, Bloodlust: Subspecies III, the Subspecies-adjacent Vampire Journals, Subspecies 4: Bloodstorm, and Subspecies V: Blood Rise, plus a CD copy of the first movie’s musical score and a glow-in-the-dark Tiny Terrors action figure of the vampire Radu.

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The director of cult films Shatter Dead (1994) and Sixteen Tongues (1999), Shooter McCrae has wrapped production on his third feature film, titled Black Eyed Susan.

The film is currently in post-production, Bloody Disgusting has learned.

“The stylishly spare, lo-fi aesthetic erotic science fiction feature was filmed on Super 16 in Brooklyn and other areas of Upstate New York. Its cast includes Damian Maffei, Marc Romeo, and ex-WWE Superstar Scott Fowler. Model Yvonne Emilie Thälker marks her feature film debut as the picture’s titular character.”

Desperate for work, Derek (Maffei) accepts a job replacing his recently-deceased friend at a tech startup. Continuing to develop the company’s innovative project means working intimately with Susan (Thälker), a bleeding-edge Bdsm sex doll meant to receive and appreciate punishment as an integral part of her evolving AI.

Derek will soon test the limits of his own desires and explore the nature of man and woman,...

Exclusive: Freestyle Digital Media has acquired U.S. rights to the comedic documentary My Friend Tommy, along with North American rights to Blood Scales, an award-winning French-English doc about animal trafficking. The former title will debut on digital October 24th, with the latter hitting the internet on the 31st.

Directed by Nem Stankovic, My Friend Tommy follows Thomas “Tommy” Lee, a sheltered 40-year-old virgin who embarks on a cross-continental journey with his best friend, former pro-ball player and comedian Nem, to learn basic adult skills in a crash course on the life he’s missed out on. Nora Stankovic, Nem Stankovic, and Lauren Wolkowski produced the film alongside EPs Nick Risher, Patrick Tsang, Oliver Mochizuki, Utsava Kasera, Rahil Khandker, Wilson Siu, G. Lam, Archit Joshi, Christopher Aw, Sin W. Lau, Mark N. Taaffe, Jessey Lee, and Cherie Chan.

Directed by Paolo Sodi and produced by Alessio Bariviera, Blood Scales highlights...

Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" and Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" were meant to be counter-programming for each other. They both opened in theaters on July 21, 2023, and one can practically hear the studio executives at both Universal and Warner Bros. positing that a younger audience would be dropped off to see the PG-13-rated "Barbie" while adults would sidle into the theater next door to watch "Oppenheimer." What no one seemed to predict was that there was a great deal of overlap between the two films' intended audiences, and a grassroots campaign began to see the two pictures as the ultimate double feature. The phenomenon nicknamed Barbenheimer began. Any number of unauthorized Barbenheimer T-shirts can be purchased online, and many managed to see both films on the same weekend. Rather than siphoning money from one another, "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" buoyed each other, each one adding to the other's success. Both films are...

We’ve all probably seen the portmanteau Barbenheimer a thousand times this summer, as movie-goers headed out for double features of Barbie and Oppenheimer. Two movies that couldn’t be more different from each other, but happened to have the same theatrical release date. There have also been all sorts of poster and imagery mash-ups – and now we can share the news that the mad geniuses at Full Moon Features are taking the Barbenheimer insanity a step further. They’re already in pre-production on a wild comedy titled Barbenheimer! Along with this announcement comes the unveiling of promotional teaser art, and we have the Exclusive first look at that artwork at the bottom of this article.

We don’t have information on who’s writing or directing Barbenheimer, but we do have a synopsis: Deep within Dollsville, a group of fed-up female dolls – led by the brilliant Dr. Barbenheimer – build an atomic bomb.

2023 is turning out to be a very exciting year for the legendary production and distribution company Full Moon, which was founded by Charles Band back in 1989 and has brought us films like the Puppet Master franchise, Demonic Toys, Castle Freak, Trancers sequels, and many more over the decades. Earlier this year, after a twenty year wait, they were able to make Subspecies V: Blood Rise and send it out into the world. Their long-awaited stop-motion epic The Primevals has finally been completed and just had its premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival. And now we’ve got the Exclusive first look at their upcoming release Aimee: The Visitor, a movie that features “the very first AI-created femme fatale in film history”! You can watch the trailer for Aimee: The Visitor in the embed above.

The film has the following synopsis: Scott Keyes is a brilliant but misanthropic computer hacker...

The Full Moon production Subspecies V: Blood Rise received a one-night theatrical release in thirty to forty cities, courtesy of Alamo Drafthouse, back in May. Then it started streaming on both Screambox and Full Moon’s own streaming service Full Moon Features in June. Now it has been given a physical media release on Blu-ray and DVD – and copies can be ordered directly from Full Moon! The Blu-ray is available at This Link for the price of $21.95. The DVD can be purchased at This Link and goes for $16.95.

Written and directed by Ted Nicolaou, who was also at the helm of the previous films, Subspecies V: Blood Rise has the following synopsis: Stolen by crusaders on the night of his birth, he has no knowledge of his bloodline: his mother is a demon; his father is a vampire. Trained and exploited by a brotherhood of mystic monks to slay all enemies of the church,...

Animal attack creature features are often marred by bad CGI, but what if that becomes the central conceit for a satirical horror feature? Expect Full Moon Features to lean into it in a massive way in the upcoming gory horror comedy Bad CGI Gator.

Bloody Disgusting can exclusively reveal the poster for the creature feature. Something tells us that Bad CGI Gator will more than live up to its title.

The tongue-in-cheek tagline, “Terror, rendered too cheaply…” says it all.

The official synopsis: “Six college grads on spring break get a cabin in the swamplands of Georgia. Once there, they decide to throw their school laptops in a backyard lake in an act of youthful defiance, which unknowingly turns a lurking alligator into the dreaded and insatiable… Bad CGI Gator!”

Bad CGI Gator was written by Zalman Band and directed by Danny Draven (Weedjies: Halloweed Night).

Producer Charles Band said,...

Full Moon’s Subspecies franchise returns with brand new fifth installment Subspecies V: Bloodrise, a glossy, high-quality prequel that’s now streaming exclusively on Screambox and Full Moon Features!

The movie – which tells the origin story of the immortal bloodsucker Radu – will be streaming alongside all four former Full Moon classics, including 1991’s Subspecies, Bloodstone: Subspecies II (1993), Bloodlust: Subspecies III (1994), and Subspecies 4: Bloodstorm (1998). Click on over to Screambox to start streaming!

Nat Brehmer raves in his review of the new movie, “This isn’t simply a great Subspecies movie for modern day Full Moon, it’s a great Subspecies movie.” Nat continues, “All I asked of Subspecies V was to rekindle at least some of that feeling I had, watching these movies for the very first time. It does that, and then some. Subspecies V isn’t just a worthy entry in the series, it is absolutely in the running for best Subspecies movie,...

You’ve been asking for it and we’re thrilled to announce today that Cinedigm and Bloody Disgusting’s Screambox streaming service is now available on Apple TV devices!

You can download the Screambox app onto your Apple TV device right now, and start streaming all the original, exclusive, and catalogue content we’ve loaded onto the service in the past year. That includes big screen hits like Terrifier 2 and The Outwaters, plus award-winning documentary films including Pennywise: The Story of It and Living With Chucky.

You also won’t want to miss #RobertEnglundDay on Tuesday, June 6, which will mark the premiere of Screambox Original documentary Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story. Additionally, we just added A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), plus Tobe Hooper movies Night Terrors (1993) and The Mangler (1995)!

Other new arrivals for June 2023 include the entire five-film Subspecies franchise – and yes, that includes brand new...

As a fan, I cannot believe that Subspecies V: Bloodrise has finally arrived after twenty-five years. The movie was first promised only a few years after the release of Subspecies 4: Bloodstorm. I remember being a preteen on the Internet, on Full Moon’s original website, when the announcement of a new Subspecies, a prequel that would tell Radu’s origin down through the centuries, first hit. I hadn’t even seen any of the sequels yet, and I was still absolutely thrilled. Then nothing came of it. Full Moon became a smaller and smaller company, spending much of the early 2000s as Shadow Entertainment, the smallest scale era of the studio to date, before bouncing back by the end of the decade. But the budgets over time have still been much, much smaller than they had been in the ‘90s, when those first four Subspecies films were made. Given...

It’s the summer of screams on Screambox!

This June is absolutely jam-packed with several horror gems hitting our Screambox streaming service, including the hotly anticipated must-see definitive documentary Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story, not to mention Wes Craven’s original A Nightmare on Elm Street, Tobe Hooper’s classic 1995 adaptation of The Mangler (also starring Robert Englund), George A. Romero’s zombie classic Day of the Dead, both David Cronenberg and the Soska Sisters’ Rabid, Marcus Dunstan’s slasher The Collector, the supernatural festival hit Jethica, the Screambox Original body horror thriller New Religion, and the entire Subspecies franchise!

Screambox’s month-long celebration of horror icon Robert Englund kicks off today with the addition of Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street, Tobe Hooper’s The Mangler, and Night Terrors. Other Englund films currently streaming include Galaxy of Terror and The Funhouse Massacre.

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In the very first Video Zone (the behind-the-scenes featurette attached to most of Full Moon’s films throughout the ‘90s) that played after the end credits rolled on Puppet Master II, Charles Band likened the independent studio’s movies to comic books. He said that he hoped to create franchises out of many if not all of them, to follow along with the various adventures from movie-to-movie, to even pair up and cross over certain characters. The comparison was made very early on in Full Moon’s run; this was barely over a year after the release of Puppet Master, which had been the company’s debut feature. Yet it proved to be more true than any fan at the time could have imagined.

Many of those series continue to this day, many of them have had crossovers—whether it be title fights like Dollman vs. Demonic Toys, Gingerdead Man vs.

With Memorial Day behind us, summer is on its way, and this summer is going to be absolutely loaded with new horror movies. We’re calling it the Summer of Screams for a reason!

But first, this week is all about Stephen King and Subspecies…

Here’s all the new horror releasing May 30 – June 4, 2023!

For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.

From Bayview Entertainment, this week’s new releases kick off with Addison Heath and Jasmine Jakupi’sMy Cherry Pie, an indie slasher that’s now available on VOD outlets.

The film is said to be a “gory slice of retro horror.”

In My Cherry Pie, “On the run, three criminals find themselves holed up at a notorious old hospital that happens to be the hunting ground of a masked killer.”

Glenn Maynard, Trudi Ranik, and Sotiris Tzelios star.

After a successful festival run, Sylvia Caminer...

Full Moon’s Subspecies is an interesting franchise. It started in 1991, right at the dawn of a decade that’s all-too-often considered to be a mixed bag of horror offerings, catering to the direct-to-video market that was booming at the time. Until now, with the release of Subspecies V: Bloodrise on Screambox June 2, there had not been an entry in this series since 1998, nor had there even really been much merchandise until the comic book miniseries by Cullen Bunn a few years ago; and yet the vampire franchise still persists as a cult classic.

Subspecies is a seminal vampire franchise, Radu has many loyal followers and that fandom has sustained for decades, with long, long stretches without anything to feed it. That is a true testament to the talents of writer/director Ted Nicolaou, original screenwriter David Pabian, and of course Anders Hove as the villainous Radu. The franchise has...

The Full Moon production Subspecies V: Blood Rise received a one-night theatrical release in thirty to forty cities, courtesy of Alamo Drafthouse, on May 15th. But if you weren’t able to catch the film on the big screen during that one-night event, we have some good news for you: our friends at Bloody Disgusting have confirmed that Subspecies V: Blood Rise is set to begin streaming in just two weeks! The movie will be available to watch on both Screambox and Full Moon’s own streaming service Full Moon Features as of June 2nd.

Written and directed by Ted Nicolaou, who was also at the helm of the previous films, Subspecies V: Blood Rise has the following synopsis: Stolen by crusaders on the night of his birth, he has no knowledge of his bloodline: his mother is a demon; his father is a vampire. Trained and exploited by a...

Full Moon’s Subspecies franchise returns with brand new fifth installment Subspecies V: Bloodrise, a glossy, high-quality prequel with a worldwide co-streaming premiere now set for June 2nd exclusively on Screambox and Full Moon Features!

The movie – which tells the origin story of the immortal bloodsucker Radu – will be streaming on both services (Screambox and Full Moon Features) alongside all four previous Full Moon classics, including 1991’s Subspecies, Bloodstone: Subspecies II (1993), Bloodlust: Subspecies III (1994), and Subspecies 4: Bloodstorm (1998).

Nat Brehmer raves in his review of the new movie, “This isn’t simply a great Subspecies movie for modern day Full Moon, it’s a great Subspecies movie.” Nat continues, “All I asked of Subspecies V was to rekindle at least some of that feeling I had, watching these movies for the very first time. It does that, and then some. Subspecies V isn’t just a worthy entry in the series,...

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema should offer a special brew spiked with drippings from the Bloodstone to celebrate their newest infernal partnership. After 25 years of dormancy, Full Moon Features is pulling the Sword of Laertes out from the chests of the vampires of Subspecies for a limited theatrical release of its newest open wound. And make no mistake about it, director Ted Nicolaou’s prequel Subspecies V: Bloodrise is a must-watch for Subspecies fans, and a should-see for horror fans in general.

Beginning with Subspecies (1991) and running through Subspecies 4: Bloodstorm (1998), this movie series remained unique, without having to veil its most overt influence—which is all the most classic portrayals of the legendary creature on film or page, particularly by way of eastern European castles. Vampire origins are honored respectfully and malevolently mistreated in equal measure. The films are love letters to Romania, and all its most hidden occult secrets and superstitions,...

Ted Nicolaou’s acclaimed and long awaited return to the fang-fold, Subspecies V: Bloodrise, is hitting theaters across North America for a one night special event premiere, courtesy of the Alamo Drafthouse on May 15th! Check out the list of Alamo Drafthouse theatres hosting the show and buy your tickets in advance as they are Selling Fast! Select Alamo theatres will …

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Full Moon’s Subspecies franchise returns with brand new fifth installment Subspecies V: Bloodrise, a prequel that’s getting a one-night-only theatrical release on May 15.

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema and Full Moon Features have announced the limited theatrical premiere of the fifth frightening entry in the venerable Full Moon film franchise.

The movie – which tells the origin story of the immortal bloodsucker Radu – will play at 26 Alamo Drafthouse locations for a special engagement on Monday, May 15th, 2023 as part of the company’s fabled Graveyard Shift series. The special Graveyard Shift presentation will include an exclusive introduction and pre-recorded post-screening Q&a with members of the cast and director, Ted Nicolaou.

Nat Brehmer raves in his review of the new movie, “This isn’t simply a great Subspecies movie for modern day Full Moon, it’s a great Subspecies movie.” Nat continues, “All I asked of Subspecies V was to rekindle...

Writer/director Ted Nicolaou was really pumping out entries in the Full Moon vampire series Subspecies back in the ’90s. The first Subspecies was released in 1991, Bloodstone: Subspecies II in 1993, Bloodlust: Subspecies III in 1994, the Subspecies-adjacent film Vampire Journals in 1997, and Subspecies 4: Bloodstorm in 1998. And he was fully prepared to keep the series rolling. During an interview with Pop Horror, he confirmed that he originally wrote the screenplay for Subspecies V: Blood Rise – which will receive a one-night theatrical release in thirty to forty cities, courtesy of Alamo Drafthouse, on May 15th – more than twenty years ago!

Nicolaou told Pop Horror, “We basically thought that Subspecies the first one, back in 1990 actually when we were shooting around eight months after the (Romanian) revolution that toppled Ceaușescu, we thought it was a one-off film and that would be it. It wasn’t until we screened it finally for Paramount – because...

Watch The Trailer! youtu.be/qsvVTzoh-kw The Emmaus Theater is such an iconic theater. The Emmaus Theater is holding the theatrical premiere of Subspecies V: Blood Rise. You can get tickets below. Subspecies V: Blood Rise is playing on May 15, May 16th, and May 19th. www.eventbrite.com/e/subspecies-v-blood-risetheatrical-premiere-tickets-619449519187?aff=ebdsoporgprofile About this event “Blood Rise: Subspecies …

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Full Moon’s Subspecies franchise returns with brand new fifth installment Subspecies V: Bloodrise, a prequel that’s getting a one-night-only theatrical release this coming May.

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema and Full Moon Features have just announced the limited theatrical premiere of the fifth frightening entry in the venerable Full Moon film franchise.

The movie – which tells the origin story of the immortal bloodsucker Radu – will play at 26 Alamo Drafthouse locations for a special engagement on Monday, May 15th, 2023 as part of the company’s fabled Graveyard Shift series. The special Graveyard Shift presentation will include an exclusive introduction and pre-recorded post-screening Q&a with members of the cast and director, Ted Nicolaou.

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Subspecies V: Bloodrise from Full Moon Features

Ancient vampire Radu is back in Subspecies V: Bloodrise. The long-awaited fifth installment in the Subspecies franchise will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on June 13 via Full Moon Features.

Ted Nicolaou writes and directs. Franchise favorites Anders Hove, Denice Duff, and Kevin Spirtas return to star. Charles Band produces.

Special features include an audio commentary by Nicolaou, a behind-the-scenes featurette, a photo gallery, and Full Moon trailers.

Resident Evil Prints from Spoke Art

In honor of the recent release of the Resident Evil 4 remake, artist Dakota Randall designed 24×36 screen prints for the game. Two color variants are available, each limited to 100, for $75 from Spoke Art. They’ll ship in 6-8 weeks.

Yesterday, we shared the news that Full Moon’s Puppet Master franchise will continue with another solo puppet entry (like 2020’s Blade: The Iron Cross and last year’s Puppet Master: Doktor Death), Puppet Master: Furnace Leech Woman. And that’s not the only Full Moon franchise that’s about to get a new sequel. The Demonic Toys series is also continuing with movies that focus on just one of the evil toys at a time, and after making Baby Oopsie, Baby Oopsie 2: Murder Dolls, and Baby Oopsie 3: Burn Baby Burn, writer/director William Butler is now diving into a different Demonic Toys spin-off: Demonic Toys: Jack Attack.

In the latest episode of his Full Moon Universe YouTube show, Full Moon founder Charles Band said that Demonic Toys: Jack Attack will be filming in Cleveland, Ohio, and production is set to begin in just two weeks. Plot details are being kept under wraps,...

When the trailer for the long-awaited Full Moon production Subspecies V: Blood Rise arrived online last month, the expectation was that the movie would be available to watch on FullMoonFeatures.com by the end of February, and would then be available on Amazon Prime Video shortly after its debut. But plans have changed. During a new episode of his Full Moon Universe YouTube show, Full Moon founder Charles Band revealed that Subspecies V: Blood Rise will receive a theatrical release in thirty to forty cities, courtesy of Alamo Drafthouse, on May 15th. The theatrical screenings of Subspecies V: Blood Rise will be a one-night event, and Band is hoping to have a Full Moon representative at each theatre to do giveaways and sell merchandise. Full Moon will also be filming some kind of intro with director Ted Nicolaou and stars Anders Hove and Denice Duff to show before the movie begins.

Once a Full Moon production has completed filming, the company doesn’t waste any time getting that movie out into the world. Only five months have passed since we heard that the long-awaited Subspecies V: Blood Rise had finally started filming (more than twenty years after the release of the previous entry in the series), with franchise director Ted Nicolaou back at the helm. Now a trailer for Subspecies V: Blood Rise has arrived online, along with the announcement that the movie is set to exclusively premiere on FullMoonFeatures.com later this month! It will also be made available on Amazon Prime shortly after its debut.

Produced by Full Moon founder Charles Band and scripted by Nicolaou, Subspecies V: Blood Rise has the following synopsis: Stolen by crusaders on the night of his birth, he has no knowledge of his bloodline: his mother is a demon; his father is a vampire.