I joined Full Moon Streaming!

I finally did it! After a lot of debate about whether or not Full Moon's new streaming service would be of any benefit to me, I took the plunge and signed up last night. I'm glad I did too because, as a subscriber to their previous Grindhouse Flix (which has now been retired and amalgamated with Full Moon Streaming), I got a massive discount on my initial 3 month membership.

I know my haters (and by haters, I really mean one jealous attention-seeker who shall remain nameless for now) think that I'm some kind of shill who gets lots of kickbacks and freebies from the movie industry, but I'm not. I've never asked anybody for anything, and I never promote anything on my blog which I haven't payed for and enjoyed. Suffice it to say that I had a great time enjoying my latest purchase until the early hours of this morning watching the Empire/Full Moon movies which I don't have on DVD yet. Eventually tiredness overcame me, but I got through quite a few.

Highlights of my first night with Full Moon Streaming included "Dangerous Worry Dolls" (2008), "Shrunken Heads" (1994), "The Evil Clergyman", and "Trancers: City of Lost Angels". The latter is quite short as it was originally meant to be part of a trilogy rather than a standalone movie, but I'm a huge Jack Deth fan and was very pleased to see it after all these years.

Because I moved to America nearly 6 years ago, I had to leave a lot of my things behind. Some of the casualties were my Full Moon VHS tapes which I've been trying to rebuy on DVD. Sadly, the lesser known titles aren't on DVD yet and probably never will be, so Full Moon Streaming makes up for it. Unlike Netflix, Full Moon Streaming works on Ubuntu too!

Always the innovator, Charles Band is putting the new Full Moon movies on this service first, which is another bonus. New releases will appear every Friday, and on October 29th, "Gingerdead Man vs. Evil Bong" will make its debut. In addition, there are all the Grindhouse Flix movies, Vidcasts, competitions, and "Hot Chick of the Week" features.

Even though I'm a hardcore horror fan, sometimes I just like to chillax with a fun Full Moon movie. They aren't exactly Oscar winners, but some of the performances are a lot better than you might expect, and the stories are always entertaining. I haven't reviewed many of them on this blog, so next month, I will be reviewing everything from Empire International Pictures through to the new Full Moon Features. That's if I can pry myself away from Full Moon Streaming for long enough to do so.

Puppetmaster/Killjoy - 12 movies for $5!

I bought this multipack two weeks ago from Wal-mart for only $5, but I don't think that I posted anything about it except on Facebook and Twitter.

As you can see from the scan, I haven't even opened it yet so I can't tell you anything about the quality of the transfers or how the movies are arranged on the DVDs. I intended to have a marathon "Puppetmaster" day, but I fell asleep in a big furry heap with Willow (my cat not the kids' movie) instead. It's only the later movies that I haven't seen anyway.

Here are the synopses from the Echo Bridge Home Entertainment site where they are still selling this pack for $19.99:

PUPPET MASTER
A demonic crew of puppets unleash their murderous talents on psychics investigating their owner, Andre Toulon.

PUPPET MASTER 2
Toulon's army of assassin puppets exhume their beloved creator to gather the brain matter that keeps them alive, but the Puppet Master has a deadly plan of his own.

PUPPET MASTER 3: TOULON'S REVENGE
After Toulon escapes a kidnapping attempt that killed his wife, he exacts revenge with Six Shooter, Blade and Leech Woman, a new army of mini-murderers.

PUPPET MASTER 4
Blade, Tunneler, Pinhead and the newest head-swapping puppet, Decapitron, go toe-to-toe with their most menacing enemy yet—a team of terrifying gremlin-like creatures.

PUPPET MASTER 5
Caught between two foes, the half-pint heroes must preserve the magic formula which gives them life...while Puppet Master Rick's life hangs in the balance.

CURSE OF THE PUPPET MASTER
Toulon's puppets have a new master in backwoods scientist, Dr. Magrew, who has been desperately trying to duplicate the great Puppet Master's work.

RETRO PUPPET MASTER
Young Toulon is taught the secret of life by an Egyptian sorcerer, but then becomes the target of an evil god.

PUPPET MASTER: THE LEGACY
Toulon's reanimation formula is in jeopardy when a rogue agent threatens its protector.

PUPPET MASTER: AXIS OF EVIL
A young man named Danny saves Toulon's puppets after his death and must now bring them to life to defeat the axis of evil.

KILLJOY
When an outcast is bullied to death, a killer clown exacts revenge in his honor. His name is Killjoy and he thinks murder is a laughing matter.

KILLJOY 2
On a wilderness rehabilitation trip, a group of at-risk youth find themselves in the home of a voodoo woman where Killjoy's spirit is summoned.

KILLJOY 3
A group of unsuspecting college students accidentally open the portal to Killjoy's demon realm and get trapped in a strange funhouse world with the killer clown and his friends.

One thing to beware of if you go to Wal-mart is that they also have a pack of just the 9 "Puppetmaster" movies for the same price, and that's the one which is on the racks rather than in the $5 bin. It's still a good deal if you don't want the "Killjoy" movies, and the artwork is better anyway.

I found this pack in the bargain bin at the front of the store and saw that there was also one copy in the regular bargain bin next to the DVD section. I don't think that they are as rare as the Lionsgate multipacks which had everyone on a wild goose chase last year, but don't be surprised if your local Wal-mart doesn't have any left. From the sticker at the top right, it looks like they've had these since March.

If you can't find it or don't have a Wal-mart, you can also get this pack from Amazon for $4.99. The best price is coming up as $1.37 right now, but that's without the shipping.