Full Moon’s ‘Piranha Women’ Due on DVD and Blu-ray Dec. 13 From MVD

MVD Entertainment Group will release the Full Moon Features horror film Piranha Women on DVD and Blu-ray Dec. 13.

From the fevered mind of indie exploitation movie guru and Emmy award winning director Fred Olen Ray (Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers, Sideshow, The Bay) comes this aquatic teeth-tit exploitation epic. In the film, when Richard James becomes suspicious of his girlfriend’s new experimental medical treatment, he grows even more concerned when she suddenly vanishes. In his frantic search for her, he discovers a secret society of beautiful women, all medically altered by the mysterious Dr Sinclair. They’re something less than human. They’re Piranha women.

Special features include a trailer, cast and crew interviews, and Full Moon Features trailers.

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FilmRise Acquires North American Digital Rights to More Than 200 Full Moon Movies

FilmRise April 27 announced the acquisition of digital rights to more than 200 feature films from indie distributor Full Moon Features. The deal grants FilmRise digital TVOD, SVOD, AVOD and FAST rights in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean.

The deal was negotiated by Jonitha Keymoore, FilmRise VP of global acquisitions, and Charles Band, owner of Full Moon Features.

“Full Moon Features has obtained a large cult following over the many years it’s been producing its signature horror, sci-fi and fantasy films,” Danny Fisher, CEO of FilmRise, said in a statement. “Their multi-title franchises, including Puppet Master, Subspecies and The Gingerdead Man, continue to entertain viewers.”

FilmRise will distribute the catalog across its streaming network, including its branded app, as well as third party digital streaming platforms.

Titles include Trancers, starring Helen Hunt (“Mad About You”) and Art LaFleur (Field of Dreams); The Gingerdead Man, starring Gary Busey (Point Break); Robot Wars, starring Lisa Rinna (“The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”), and Unlucky Charms, starring Seth Peterson (Godzilla), among others.

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Full Moon Horror Flicks ‘Evil Bong’ and ‘Don’t Let Her In’ Available on Blu-ray From MVD

The Full Moon Features horror flicks Evil Bong Remastered and Don’t Let Her In are available on Blu-ray Disc from MVD Entertainment Group.

In Don’t Let Her In (2021), when an attractive young couple rents out a room in their spacious loft to an eccentric, beautiful female artist, they soon live to regret it. Slowly but surely, their seductive new tenant invades their minds, their beds, and the very fabric of their lives. The sensual supernatural nightmare comes from writer-director Ted Nicolaou (Terrorvision, Subspecies, The Vampire Journals). Special features include “Don’t Let Her In: Behind the Scenes with Ted Nicolaou” and Full Moon Features trailers.

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Also available from Full Moon is Evil Bong Remastered, starring Tommy Chong (of Cheech and Chong fame). In this comic horror film from 2006 — remastered for the first time — straight-laced nerd Allistair moves into a college dorm with hardcore marijuana users Brett, Larnell and Bachman. Larnell orders an old giant bong that proves to have strange magical powers. When smoked, said bong sends a person to a bizarre drugged-out alternate realm from which there is no easy escape. Special features include a making-of featurette, the 2005 Charles Band Roadshow featurette and Full Moon Features trailers.

Full Moon’s ‘The Resonator: Miskatonic U’ and ‘Mania Killer’ Due on DVD and Blu-ray Nov. 9 From MVD

The horror films The Resonator: Miskatonic U and Mania Killer will be released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc Nov. 9 from Full Moon Features and MVD Entertainment Group.

In horror fantasy The Resonator: Miskatonic U (2021), genre stars Michael Pare (Streets of Fire, Eddie and the Cruisers), Amanda Wyss (A Nightmare on Elm Street, Fast Times at Ridgemont High) and Empire Pictures alumni Jeffrey Byron (The Dungeonmaster, Metalstorm) join a cast of newcomers in a tale of visionary Miskatonic University student Crawford Tillinghast, who follows in his late father’s footsteps and becomes obsessed with completing work on The Resonator, an inter-dimensional device that opens doorways to other worlds. With the aid of his closest friends, they manage to get the machine running — with terrifying results.

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In Mania Killer (1987), a malevolent religious cult stalks a French village, kidnapping prostitutes and subjecting them to unimaginable torments under the guise of saving their souls. When a young man’s girlfriend is taken by the sect, he teams up with a mob of angry pimps to track down the maniacal, holy rolling killers and put an end to their bloody mission, once and for all. The film stars Bo Svenson (Walking Tall Part 2), Robert Ginty (The Exterminator) and Chuck Connors (Tourist Trap). Full Moon is presenting this obscure shocker totally uncut and remastered from the best available materials found in the Eurocine vaults.

Klaus Kinski Italian Horror Flick ‘Lover of the Monster’ Due on Disc From MVD

The Italian horror flick Lover of the Monster will debut on Blu-ray and DVD June 8 from MVD Entertainment Group and Full Moon Features.

Legendary German actor Klaus Kinski (Crawlspace, Nosferatu: Phantom Der Nacht) stars as Dr. Alex Nijinksy, a troubled scientist who retires to his long-suffering wife Anijeska’s family castle in search of a fresh start. Already under pressure, Nijinsky’s rage begins to boil when his lady starts spending time with her ex-boyfriend and, after he discovers a hidden laboratory in the castle belonging to his mad scientist father-in-law, he unleashes the living incarnation of his rage. Soon, Nijinksy is up to no good, sexually assaulting women and murdering them, all the while making his wife’s life a living hell. Filmed back-to-back with writer/director Sergio Garrone’s equally Gothic Italian/Turkish thriller The Hand That Feeds the Dead, Lover of the Monster features much of the same cast and crew, including Katia Christine (Riot in a Women’s Prison) as well as having Kinski play a same-named (though totally different) mad scientist named Nijinsky.

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Filled with nudity, violence and general bad behavior, this rarely seen psycho-shocker is presented for the first time in North America in its fully uncut form, remastered from the best available materials.

‘Tourist Trap’ VHS Retro Box Blu-ray-DVD Combo Pack Coming Nov. 24 From MVD

The horror film Tourist Trap is coming in a VHS retro big box collection Blu-ray plus DVD combo pack Nov. 24, including a blister-packed, retro-style action figure, from MVD Entertainment Group and Full Moon Features.

In the 1979 film, every year young people disappear. An eerie and deserted wax museum, Slausen’s Lost Oasis, is the site for spine-tingling terror where four unsuspecting young travelers (including Tanya Roberts from “Charlie’s Angels”) are lured into a very deadly tourist trap. Slausen (Chuck Connors) is the reclusive and bizarre owner of this attraction, which is actually more like a macabre chamber of horrors.

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Extras include a director’s commentary, rare trailers and an interview with director David Schmoeller (Puppet Master).

The film also stars Jocelyn Jones (Lee Daniel’s The Butler), Jon Van Ness (The Natural) and, in an early appearance, scream queen Linnea Quigley (The Return of the Living Dead).

‘Blade: The Iron Cross’ Available on Disc From MVD and Full Moon

The horror film Blade: The Iron Cross is available on DVD and Blu-ray Disc from Full Moon Features and MVD Entertainment Group.

Sick science, punishing puppets, clairvoyant crusaders and a legion of fascist zombies combine in this latest “Puppet Master” film. Dr. Hauser, the Third Reich’s maddest scientist, rises again with murder and mayhem on his mind. As the deranged Nazi doctor’s perverse plot is revealed, psychic journalist Elisa Ivanov (Tania Fox) awakens her own angel of death in Blade and together maiden and marionette get set to hammer the evil Hauser back into hell.

In addition to Fox (“It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”), the film stars Vincent Cusimano (Betrayed), Bobby Reed (Perry Mason, 2020), Roy Abramsohn (Searching) and Alan Maxson (Godzilla: King of the Monsters).

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The film, written by Neal Marshall Stevens (Thirteen Ghosts, Hellraiser: Deader) and featuring a score by Richard Band (Re-Animator), follows Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich from producer Charles Band (Puppet Master, Trancers), who returns to oversee the next chapter in the franchise.

Extras include director’s commentary; Full Moon Features trailers; a behind-the-scenes featurette; and set stills.

VHS-Era ‘Prehysteria’ Coming on Blu-ray Disc for First Time Oct. 9 From Full Moon and MVD

From horror and fantasy film studio Full Moon Features comes 1993’s Prehysteria on Blu-ray Disc Oct. 9 for the first time from MVD Entertainment Group.

Founded by producer/director Charles Band in 1989, Full Moon released the film under its fantasy label for children and families, Moonbeam Entertainment. Anticipating the success of Jurassic Park, this VHS-era title follows the misadventures of Jerry Taylor (Austin O’Brien, The Last Action Hero), a 12-year-old, Elvis-loving kid, and his sister Monica (Samantha Mills), whose farmer dad Frank (Brett Cullen, Ghost Rider) accidentally brings home a bundle of rare eggs unearthed in the rainforest by a sinister museum curator. Suddenly, the eggs hatch, unleashing a pack of diminutive dinosaurs.

The film features stop-motion special effects by David Allen (Puppet Master, Laserblast) and a remastered, high-definition transfer taken from the original 35mm camera negative.