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 […]
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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 […]
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After Puppet Master, Subspecies is undoubtedly Full Moon’s most successful franchise. The two are similar in that they both have an intricate central mythology that is expanded upon over time, and while both have their share of quirky humor, the films are much more serious in tone than other notable Full Moon franchises like Gingerdead […]
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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 […]
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Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood is one of the more divisive entries of the long running franchise. Fans have always praised its depiction of Jason, with his weathered, rotted appearance and for Kane Hodder donning the mask for the very first time, but have criticized its more fantasy-based story direction and the […]
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I was eight years old when I saw a magazine ad for the Puppet Master action figure series. From that moment, that franchise and its parent studio, Full Moon, plus those figures and Full Moon Toys became my biggest childhood obsessions. I was twelve when Full Moon Toys went under. As the independent studio floundered […]
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On Halloween night, 1988, as Michael Myers lay still on the ground, his young niece touched his hand either out of curiosity, or sympathy, or some unknowable kinship. As her foster sister warned the little girl to stand back, Jamie Lloyd jumped out of the way as a firing squad blasted Michael down a mineshaft […]
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Moon Knight is one of the comic book characters I’ve spent years wanting to see on the screen without ever once thinking it would actually happen, if not the number one. Even after the Disney Plus series was officially announced, I had my doubts. Now that it’s here, the feeling is so surreal. This character […]
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After a fifty-year comic book legacy, Morbius the Living Vampire will finally make his big screen debut in this year’s self-titled solo film. It’s a Marvel movie that perhaps no one saw coming a few years back, although development of a Morbius feature dates all the way back to 2000, when Artisan Entertainment partnered with […]
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I have a deep love of horror novelizations and tie-ins. I’ve written about them several times. Anything that expands the story beyond the films, even for a franchise as largely simplistic as Halloween or Friday the 13th, I’m there. That love started in a very specific place, when I walked into Mr. Paperback with my dad in 1998 and […]
As soon as characters like Michael Myers and Freddy Krueger joined the multiplayer horror game Dead by Daylight, speculation began—especially among the hardcore horror fans—as to whether or not we would ever see Pinhead do the same. That speculation has gone on for years and, finally, those fans have gotten their wish. Dead by Daylight […]
I am a huge fan of novelizations and tie-ins. When I was a kid, I picked up Star Wars books at every library book sale and happily read the novelizations of movies I was anticipating, always wishing that there were books based on my favorite horror movies as well—not knowing, of course, that some already […]
Clive Barker’s The Mummy is a pretty well known unmade horror at this point, I think, especially with Barker talking about it in more detail during a recent guest appearance on Mick Garris’ Post Mortem podcast. Barker was hired in 1990 to write and direct The Mummy for Universal and wrote a script with Garris […]