These shows are going to be a great time and include live FX (decapitations!), talks, guest appearances and other great stuff from Charles Band and Full Moon.

Check out the promo video below and go to FullMoonDirect to get tickets for the low, low price of only $10! The show is hitting 20-some cities so if you are a Full Moon fan, be sure to make plans to hit up one of the shows!

I will be at the Columbus, Ohio show so if you happen  to be attending, drop me an e-mail and we’ll catch up!

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There is now a Full Moon Horror page on cable onDemand including Comcast and Time Warner. I have TW here in Ohio and the page can be found under the Thrillers onDemand page. The page features almost a dozen Full Moon flicks including Subspecies (!), Dark Angel, Robot Wars, Dollman, Hell Asylum, Decadent Evil 2 and more. The movies are a low $1.99 each. Sweet.

Also, you can now follow Full Moon on Twitter. Click Here for the page or Click Here to follow via a handy RSS feed.

Also, also – new reviews coming soon. I have a few movies in my collection that went by the wayside in a recent move but I will be replacing and reviewing these shortly. As the weather cools down and my motivation for going outside decreases you will see a dramatic incease of updates to this page.

One more quick non-Full Moon related site note. I recently switched hosting for this site and am pleased to announce that things have gone extremely well. This site is optimized to the point of where it will load quickly just about anywhere but the new host, Downtown Host, has done a great job in delivering the site quickly and keeping it online 100% of the time. If you are looking for hosting, check Downtown out!

Toodles for now.

-FMR

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You can read the articles here:

Article One

Article Two (with exclusive pics!)

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The Totem replica is now available and looks pretty detailed and nicely done. At a $200 sticker price, it’s up there..but as an added bonus the first 50 people to purchase the replica receive the Full Moon Archive 18 DVD box. Pretty sweet deal if you ask me.

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Well played, Mr. Band.

One thing I do find kind of odd – Full Moon t-shirts are out of stock? That kind of seems like a staple item to always have in. T-shirts are also high profit given the low cost of production, even in small quantities, and we know how much Mr. Who-Know-Who loves the dollars.

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Charlie says they are aiming to have one movie released per month through the end of the year. While I am skeptical, I hope it’s true. He also indicated they have two shoots going on in Europe, including Skull Heads. Apparently,  Killer Eye 2 is in the works as well.

There’s also a sale going on trying to sucker people into buying multiple, apparently, poor-selling dolls including Killjoy, Marvin from Decadent Evil and Pimp from Ragdoll. The catch here is that the deal doesn’t start until you purchase at least 6 of each doll. I hated Decadent Evil and Killjoy, what the hell am I going to do with 6 dolls representing each?!

Anyways, you can check the vidcast below, hopefully Mr. Band is not blowing smoke up our asses (again).

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You can watch the vidcast below:

And of course what would any sort of major holiday be without a ‘fantastically awesome’ Full Moon sale?

You can check out details on Full Moon’s site.

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I’m still not too sure what to make of this. Evil Bong was entertaining, but nothing to go crazy over. As part of Charles Band’s sequel-mania 2009, it makes me even more skeptical. I still can’t find a definitive (or even approximate) release date for EB2.. so it could be here next month or December of 2009.

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Hopefully this doesn’t go by the wayside like the Wasted Weekend box set apparently has.

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Of course I’ll also interject my opinions here and there as well since, apparently, I can’t keep my mouth shut to save my life.

That said, Mr. Band and company have a couple of cool things coming up and have leaked their 2009 schedule as well. Most important here, is the 50% Off Halloween sale.

From 12am-12am October 31st stuff on Full Moon’s website will be 50% off. They have never really specifically said what is going to be 50% off, but the stuff I’ve seen leads me to believe that everything will be on sale, so that’s definitely an opportunity to pick up some stuff that can’t be found cheaper elsewhere like toys and t-shirts.

Additionally, the Wasted Weekend Halloween-themed box set will be released and from the looks of the cover-art it will feature The Killer Eye, Castle Freak, Shrunken Heads, Dead Hate The Living and Shrieker. Full Moon also promises special goodies and inserts for those who purchase the set. I’ll be honest, I’ve never purchased anything directly from Full Moon (shame on me), mostly because the same DVDs they have and others that they don’t have available can be found significantly cheaper on Amazon, but hopefully this set delivers.

Lastly, and you’ve probably already read this elsewhere, Full Moon has a bunch of sequels slated for 2009 including King Bong, Killjoy 3 (WHY?!), Puppet Master – Axis Of Evil (WHY?!), Demonic Toys 2, Gingerdead Man 3 (WHY?!) and Bride Of The Head Of The Family.

Now’s the part where I rant a little…

I really hope they have more movies aside from these that they will be producing or at least distributing, otherwise this is a pretty weak line up in my opinion. It seems like Full Moon’s focus has almost completely zeroed-in on existing fans. That seems like a good strategy, but in looking at attendance numbers (provided by Charles Band) from the Road Show stops, he’s working with 3-5,000 hardcore, die-hard fans. That seems great, but from observing how well ‘limited edition’ items have sold (ie – not too well) on the website, it seems foolhardy to me to put most of your focus on such a small group.

Who knows, maybe the core-sales combined with units shipped to Blockbuster, Hollywood Video, Netflix and local video stores are keeping Full Moon afloat, but with the introduction of the new “Sales Team”, I doubt that.

It looks like Full Moon is getting itself into trouble again and if all (or most) of my thinking is correct then that trouble has been caused by poor marketing and promotion outside of the Full Moon fanboy realm and the inability to take on the task, themselves, of expanding their business. Couple that with essentially no new (or different) ideas coming out of the studio and you’ve got a recipe for disaster.

When I see a sequel for a horror flick I generally will immediately discount it unless I hear otherwise that it’s worth the purchase or rent through Netflix. When you are putting out nothing but sequels to movies which most casual horror fans/buyers/renters aren’t even familiar with the originals of, that’s asking for trouble in my book.

Aside from the Paramount days, it seems most of Full Moon’s success was through putting out actual horror movies. I know this hasn’t been Band’s thing, instead cornering the extremely small ‘toys and dolls that do evil shit’ market but he’s even losing that. A good example of this would be Pinocchio’s Revenge, which was far more entertaining, comical and much better produced than any recent Band puppet/toy effort. You can only fly one flag for so long in business before it’s time to branch out and explore other avenues (and NOT just toys) in order to save your company from going under. That’s the path that Full Moon seems to be headed.

I’d like to see more (some) horror movies, as the ones from earlier this decade were easily my favorite Full Moon flicks and introduced some unique, entertaining ideas (and some not so unique) while still maintaining that ‘Full Moon’ feel. At the least, I’d like to see some different ideas instead of trying to cash in on past successes and franchises that have, unfortunately, long since played themselves out.

That’s all for now.

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