Full Moon Releases Slew Of Remastered Flicks!

Great news for Tourist Trap fans!:
http://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=14196556&postcount=630

PS. Got my trunk set today (along with a DVD copy of Shrunken Heads) and it's fantastic!

 

Puppet Master Trunk now up for pre-order on Amazon!:

https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Puppet-Master-Collectable-Blu-ray/dp/B077Y6Q2RS/

 

...with a $50.00 markup on an already overpriced set.

 

I'll bump this here, feels more appropriate:

https://www.fullmoondirect.com/Vintage-VHS-Collection-1-Puppet-Master-signednumbered_p_1244.html

Free shipping and this month Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama is the free DVD they throw in.

Laserblast and Tourist Trap will be next. I wonder what those gimmick gifts would be as FM don't currently have any knick knacks for sale (I know, I find that hard to believe myself!).

Original temp work said this would a new master and be uncut. This current press release and the listing on DiabolikDVD do not. So odds are this will be the usual cut... and probably not from a new master.

Rather odd. I don't know if Band has his reasons for using the edited cut or just that any usable elements are lost.

 

Yeah, this will probably be the same disc(s). Though if by some surprise the discs turn out to be uncut, I'll buy it.

Of course, we know the next time Tourist Trap gets a Blu-ray release, it will be uncut so now the question is; Will the MVD release be the one with the uncut version?

 

Swedish Gas Pumop Girls coming soon to DVD with a new remastered transfer from the director's own 35mm negative:

https://www.facebook.com/FullMoonDe...731904776703/1641653412617874/?type=3&theater

 

Looks like High Test Girls (1980) originally called Sechs Schwedinnen von der Tankstelle. Stars Brigitte Lahaie so that's definitely something to see!

 

Coming this Fall, the first Moonbeam title on Blu-ray; Prehysteria!:

https://mailchi.mp/fullmoonfeatures.com/fms_subscriber_letter_we_6-8-64873

 

I loved those movies as a kid, but I'm a little scared to revisit them now. Maybe they're best left the way I remember them?

 

I actually rewatched a bunch of the Moonbeam films a couple of months ago as I stumbled on a stack of Moonbeam VHS and Prehysteria at least held up somewhat although it's nowhere near as enjoyable as an adult. The sequels fared worse though as they were pretty bad. Remote also wasn't any good or as fun as I remembered. Pet Shop at least was a bit zany, but still rather quaint. None of them though are something I will probably ever revisit again...

 

DVD News Flash reports that the Prehysteria sequels and Pet Shop will be available on Blu-ray this December according to Charles Band.

 

Coming up next, The Day Time Ended!:



"THE DAY TIME ENDED: REMASTERED will hit Full Moon Streaming on 04/03, with an Amazon premiere the following week. The Special Edition Blu-ray release will street near the end of April."

 

Now this is one that should benefit immensely. I just have it in an old Platinum Disc DVD set, which has the same transfer that FM used on their DVD release... and it's a rather terrible looking Pan & Scan transfer from an old video master. A restored widescreen version should be a revelation.

 

I added the Prehysteria! blu-ray to a recent Hamilton Book order. Not only is this one a blu-ray + DVD combo, but it even comes with a slipcover.

I hadn't seen this movie since I was a kid, and I can't say it has aged gracefully. Not that I'm surprised. It is still moderately entertaining '90s family entertainment. The movie doesn't really build up to anything. It feels like things are just getting started, then it ends. Not only that, it ends with a sequel set-up. There are two sequels, but it doesn't look like either of them follow these characters. So, it's kind of just like... okay?

It's interesting because this is marketed as a kid-friendly family film, yet the disc menu is proceeded by a trailer for other Full Moon movies featuring some of their more R-rated offerings. Although I can't imagine anyone seeking this movie out who didn't grow up with it. If you're planning on showing your kids this disc, maybe brace them for some of the kill scenes from Intruder first!

Not Full Moon related, but I wish Sony or Mill Creek would release Magic In The Water. I'd love to upgrade that '90s family creature feature, as the DVD is fullscreen.

 

Just fyi Full Moon is having a big sale today

https://www.fullmoondirect.com/

 

The Blu-ray & DVD prices were better on the 4th of July sale, and the Puppet Master trunk was $125.00 on a previous sale. You gotta wonder where they get this big sale boast from...

 

I saw the prices and quickly left the site.

 

It seems like they have a set discount to each seasonal sale. 4th of July is the same each year. Halloween the same each year. But they're different from each other. And Valentine's Day is the best one at 50% Off and usually free S&H.

I figure for Halloween and Christmas they can have softer sales but beaus

 

It's free shipping if you order at least $50.00, at least for movies.

 

FINALLY uncut! Following the success of the first two releases in Full Moon Features / Full Moon Features & Charles Band's line of "Vintage VHS" collector's box sets - PUPPET MASTER and LASERBLAST - comes what is perhaps the most talked-about horror movie in Full Moon's library: director David Schmoeller's 1979 masterpiece Tourist Trap!

Produced by Charles Band, TOURIST TRAP is widely recognized as one of the scariest and strangest horror movies of the 1970s, a film championed by none other than Stephen King as wielding "an eerie, spooky power". Legendary actor Chuck Connors (THE RIFLEMAN, WEREWOLF) stars as Mr. Slausen, a telekinetic psychopath who lures a group of young people to his ramshackle roadside attraction, unleashing an army of psychically controlled mannequins and other monstrosities upon them. As the terrified youths fight for their lives, secrets are revealed and shock follows shock until the movie reaches its nightmarish, unforgettable finale.

With a cast featuring Jocelyn Jones (THE ENFORCER) Tanya Roberts (SHEENA, THE BEASTMASTER) and Robin Sherwood (DEATH WISH II), stark art direction by Robert A. Burns (THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, THE HILLS HAVE EYES) and a terrifying, lush score by the great Pino Donaggio (DON'T LOOK NOW, CARRIE, DRESSED TO KILL), TOURIST TRAP is a macabre masterpiece, presented here in a stunning, totally uncut, digitally remastered transfer on both Blu-ray and DVD and packaged in a deluxe "Vintage VHS" big box with a custom made Mr. Slausen mini-action figure, complete with removable mask!

The TOURIST TRAP "Vintage VHS" box set is a major collectible for serious TOURIST TRAP fans and quantities are limited. The set will be ON SALE SOON at FullMoonDirect.com and other retail outlets so keep watching for updates!