MVD Visual gets terrorized by TROLL (review)

A family move into a San Francisco apartment building where a magical troll is planning to open the gate to his dimension by transforming the unfortunate tenants into fairie creatures in this Empire Pictures production from Charles Band directed by special effects designer John Carl Buechler.  Starring Michael Moriarty, Noah Hathaway, Julie Louis-Dreyfuss, Gary Sandy, Sonny Bono, Phil Fondacaro, and June Lockheart.

REVIEW LINK: MVD Visual (U.S.) Region A Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

TROLL Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• "Troll Empire: The Making of TROLL" documentary
• Theatrical Trailer
• Photo Gallery
• Bonus Trailers
• Comes with a reversible cover and slipcover.

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88 Films gets sucked into ARCADE (review)

In this Full Moon production from producer Charles Band and director Albert Pyun, a gang of teenagers are the test subjects for the new virtual reality game ARCADE that is able to react like a living being and change its strategy.  When members of the group start to literally disappear into the game, they must learn how to beat ARCADE which has learned how to play outside the virtual world.

REVIEW LINK: 88 Films (U.K.) Region B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

ARCADE Blu-ray specs:

• 1080i60 MPEG-4 AVC 1.33:1 Fullscreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by producer Charles Band and actress Megan Ward
• Audio Commentary by associate producer Daniel Schweiger
• Audio Commentary by film journalists Dave Wain and Matty Budrewicz
• The Game Master" interview with actor John de Lancie
• "See You on the Other Side" interview with actor Jonathan Fuller
• "Kiss Reality Goodbye" interview with associate producer Daniel Schweiger
• "Virtual Worlds: Filming ARCADE" interview with cinematographer George Mooradian
• "Into the Machine: Scoring ARCADE" interview with composer Alan Howarth
• Videozone Making-of
• Proof of Concept Trailer with Audio Commentary by associate producer Daniel Schweiger
• Remastered Trailer
• The first pressing includes a rigid slipcase designed by Joel Robinson and a double-sided foldout poster.

Full Moon charges up MANDROID (review)

A secret robotics experience being carried out behind the Iron Curtain goes awry when a mad scientist sets it loose on its creators in this Full Moon production that originally started out as an eighties Empire Pictures project with concept art by Jack Kirby.

REVIEW LINK: Full Moon Features (U.S.) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

MANDROID Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• VideoZone Behind the Scenes
• Theatrical Trailer
• Bonus Trailers 

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Full Moon butters up a LAST FOXTROT IN BURBANK (review)

The long-lost, long-buried career embarrassment of director Charles Band LAST FOXTROT IN BURBANK sends up the Bernardo Bertolucci sizzler, substituting margarine for butter.

REVIEW LINK: Full Moon (U.S.) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

LAST FOXTROT IN BURBANK Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 Mono
• "Burbank Memories" introduction by director Charles Band
• "Trailers from Hell" episode with writer Larry Karaszewski
• Original Theatrical Trailer
• 2022 Trailer
• Bonus Trailers

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Full Moon and Surrender Cinema entice you into the DEVIANT DUNGEON PACK (review)

Enter castles full of time traveling babes and supernatural curses courtesy of Full Moon's nineties erotica label Surrender Cinema.  In DUNGEON OF DESIRE, a photographer and two models get sent back in time by a magic chastity belt and involved in castle intrigue around a pleasure-loving evil queen and two forbidden lovers.  In LURID TALES: THE CASTLE QUEEN, a history student trying out a VR program for relaxation ends up back in the past as the special guest of a beautiful widow and her two sexy sisters.  In HIDDEN BEAUTIES: THE AWAKENING, a pair of siblings and their friends are drawn to a European castle to free three maidens from a gypsy curse.

REVIEW LINK: Full Moon Entertainment (U.S.) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

DUNGEON OF DESIRE DVD specs:

• Disc One (Dungeon of Desire):
• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 Fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
• Bonus Trailers 
• Disc Two (Lurid Tales - The Castle Queen):
• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 Fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
• Bonus Trailers 
• Disc Three (Hidden Beauties - The Awakening):
• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 Fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
• Bonus Trailers 

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88 Films fights for the future in CRASH AND BURN (Review)

The inhabitants of a pirate television station in the middle of the desert in an apocalyptic future are stalked by a robot that has had its prime directive not to harm humans removed in one of the earliest Full Moon sci-fi flicks.  Bill Moseley, Megan Ward, and Ralph Waite star.

REVIEW LINK: 88 Films (UK) Region B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

CRASH AND BURN Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director Charles Band and actor Bill Molseley
• Audio Commentary by film journalists Dave Wain and Matty Budrewicz
• Behind the Scenes
• Blooper Reel
• Theatrical Trailer
• Comes with a reversible sleeve featuring new art by Joel Robinson.
• The first pressing includes an O-ring slipcover featuring original and newly-commissioned art by Joel Robinson. 

Full Moon's beauty meets her beast in MERIDIAN (review)

TWO MOON JUNCTION's Sherilyn Fenn and PUPPET MASTER II's Charlie Spradling star in Charles Band's MERIDIAN: KISS OF THE BEAST.  A young American woman inherits her family's ancestral Italian castle along with a family curse involving a very beastly lover.  Hilary Mason (DON'T LOOK NOW) and Phil Fondacaro (TROLL) also star.  Make-up effects by Greg Cannom (BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA) and music by Pino Donaggio (BODY DOUBLE).

REVIEW LINK: Full Moon (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

MERIDIAN Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo
• Videozone Making-of
• Trailer
• Other Trailers

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88 Films beams in BAD CHANNELS (review)

When KDUL ditches its "All Polka" music format for rock and roll, an alien decides the station would be the perfect place to capture hot babes using the music of Blue Oyster Cult ("Don't Fear the Reaper").  Paul Hipp, Martha Quinn, and Charlie Spradling star in this Full Moon production from Ted Nicolaou (SUBSPECIES).

REVIEW LINK: 88 Films (UK) Region B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

BAD CHANNELS Blu-ray specs: 

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English HoH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director Ted Nicolaou
• Audio Commentary by film journalists Dave Wain and Matty Budrewicz
• "Ted Talk BAD CHANNELS" interview with director Ted Nicolaou
• Archival interview with director Ted Nicolaou
• "The Making of BAD CHANNELS
• "VideoZone making-of
• Video Trailer
• Rare Trailer
• The first pressing includes a rigid slipcover with new artwork.

Full Moon Features captures SLAVE GIRLS FROM BEYOND INFINITY (review)

Elizabeth Kaitan (FRIDAY THE 13TH PART VII: THE NEW BLOOD), Cindy Beal (MY CHAUFFEUR), and Brinke Stevens (SORORITY BABES IN THE SLIMEBALL BOWL-O-RAMA) are SLAVE GIRLS FROM BEYOND INFINITY.  Hapless travelers who become shipwrecked on a mysterious planet become the potential trophies of hunter Zed in this sci-fi variation on THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME.

REVIEW LINK: Full Moon Features (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

SLAVE GIRLS FROM BEYOND INFINITY Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo
• A Tribute to Elizabeth Kaitan
• Trailer
• Full Moon Trailers

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Full Moon Features gets infested with CREEPOZOIDS (review)

In the post-apocalyptic wasteland of Earth 1998 (read: downtown Los Angeles 1987), five army deserters search for shelter from mutant nomads and acid rains in a bunker that turns out to be an abandoned research lab where genetic experiments have lead to the creation of a hulking mutant that starts picking off the soldiers one-by-one.  Linnea Quigley (RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD), Ken Abraham (TERROR NIGHT/BLOODY MOVIE), adult actress Ashlyn Gere (EVIL LAUGH) star.  Directed by David DeCoteau (SORORITY BABES IN THE SLIMEBALL BOWL-O-RAMA) with creature effects by John Criswell (the FRIGHT NIGHT remake).

REVIEW LINK: Full Moon Features (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

CREEPOZOIDS Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo
• Audio Commentary by director David DeCoteau
• Photo Montage
• Theatrical Trailer
• Full Moon Trailers

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Full Moon Features plugs into ARCADE (review)

In this Full Moon production from producer Charles Band and director Albert Pyun, a gang of teenagers are the test subjects for the new virtual reality game ARCADE that is able to react like a living being and change its strategy.  When members of the group start to literally disappear into the game, they must learn how to beat ARCADE which has learned how to play outside the virtual world.

REVIEW LINK: Full Moon Features (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

ARCADE Blu-ray specs:

• 1080i60 MPEG-4 AVC 1.33:1 Fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by actress Megan Ward and producer Charles Band
• Behind the Scenes
• Interview with actor John De Lancie
• Rare EFX Reel
• Video Trailer
• Bonus Trailer

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Full Moon tunes into BAD CHANNELS (review)

On the night a small-town radio station switches its format from All Polka to rock-and-roll with a new shock jock, an alien lands nearby and hacks into the airwaves to abduct hotties in this nineties Full Moon creature feature from the director of SUBSPECIES.

REVIEW LINK: Full Moon (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

BAD CHANNELS Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director Ted Nicolaou
• Behind the Scenes
• "Ted Talks BAD CHANNELS" new interview with director Ted Nicolaou
• Video Trailer
• Rare Trailer
• Bonus Trailers

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Full Moon fights for the future in CRASH AND BURN (review)

The inhabitants of a pirate television station in the middle of the desert in an apocalyptic future are stalked by a robot that has had its prime directive not to harm humans removed in one of the earliest Full Moon sci-fi flicks.  Bill Moseley, Megan Ward, and Ralph Waite star.

REVIEW LINK: Full Moon (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

CRASH AND BURN Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by actor Bill Moseley and director Charles Band
• Behind the Scenes
• Bloopers
• Trailer
• Bonus Trailers

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Full Moon excavates THE PRIMEVALS: 3 Blu-ray Collection (review)

Forty years in the making, THE PRIMEVALS was PUPPET MASTER stop motion artist David Allen's passion project that started shooting in 1994 and stalled due to financial issues and then his passing.  Now the film has been completed by producer Charles Band and the industry effects greats who were once his apprentices.  When the body of a yeti is brought back from Tibet, a scientific time and a guide travel deep into the mountains to find another and discover the secret behind human evolution.

REVIEW LINK: Full Moon (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

THE PRIMEVALS - 3 Blu-ray Collection Blu-ray specs: 

• Disc One - The 2023 Version:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen 
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo 
• Optional English SDH SubtitlesTrailer
• Disc Two - The David Allen Version:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo
• Disc Three:
• "Lost to Time: Unearthing THE PRIMEVALS" documentary 
• "Raiders of the Stone Ring" promo reel 
• "Primevals: A False Start" 
• 1984 Promo Reel 
• 1997 Promo Reel 
• Time-Lapse Animation 
• "David Allen at the Moviola" 
• "Randall William Cook Visits THE PRIMEVALS" 
• "Charles Band and David Allen on THE PRIMEVALS" 
• "The Beginning and the End" 
• "A Celebration of Tenacity: Q and A at Industrial Light and Magic"
• Comes in a slipcase.

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Full Moon unearths THE PRIMEVALS (review)

Forty years in the making, THE PRIMEVALS was PUPPET MASTER stop motion artist David Allen's passion project that started shooting in 1994 and stalled due to financial issues and then his passing.  Now the film has been completed by producer Charles Band and the industry effects greats who were once his apprentices.  When the body of a yeti is brought back from Tibet, a scientific time and a guide travel deep into the mountains to find another and discover the secret behind human evolution.

REVIEW LINK: Full Moon Pictures (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

THE PRIMEVALS Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Trailer

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Full Moon Features digs up a DOLL GRAVEYARD (review)

When young Guy discovers an old samurai doll buried near his family's new home, he resurrects a vengeful spirit and a group of killer dolls that make his sister's sleepover party a night no one will forget.

REVIEW LINK: Full Moon Features (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

DOLL GRAVEYARD Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo (5.1 track is only available via your remote's audio button)
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Behind the Scenes
• Bloopers
• Trailer
• Full Moon Trailers
  

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Full Moon enrolls SWEDISH BOARDING SCHOOL GIRLS (review)

Marie-France and her six Swedish schoolmates take pleasure into their own hands... so to speak when the faculty is too busy boinking each other in this German sex comedy from Erwin C. Dietrich.

REVIEW LINK: Full Moon (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

SWEDISH BOARDING SCHOOL GIRLS Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo
• Trailer
  

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Full Moon swelters in Jess Franco's DOWNTOWN HEAT (review)

When two cops and a jazz musician who has lost his wife to drugs discover corruption within the force, they pair up with an American federal agent to take on gangsters in Jess Franco's eighties action film starring Mike Connors and Craig Hill.

REVIEW LINK: Full Moon Features (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

DOWNTOWN HEAT Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo
• Full Moon Trailers
  

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Full Moon enters the SHADOWZONE (review)

Louise Fletcher (EXORCIST II), James Hong (BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA), and David Beecroft (TV's FALCON CREST) star in this Full Moon monster flick from J.S. Cardone (THE SLAYER).  A NASA captain investigates a grisly death associated with the secret ShadowZone project, a deep sleep study that takes its subjects beyond normal levels of dreaming that has allowed something from another dimension to cross the border and use the fears of the scientific team against them.

REVIEW LINK: Full Moon Features (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

SHADOWZONE Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Theatrical Trailer
• Full Moon Trailers

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Full Moon Features plants SEEDPEOPLE (Review)

Meteor hunters who go into the orchards of Comet Valley come out changed in strange and deadly ways in Full Moon's "body snatcher" tale from the nineties with creature effects by John Carl Buechler.

REVIEW LINK: Full Moon Features (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

SEEDPEOPLE Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• VideoZone Making-of
• Full Moon Trailers