I had a chest infection last week. To ease my suffering, I spent £3.99 for a month’s access to Full Moon (www.fullmoonfeatures.com). This is the online streaming service for the work of straight-to-video king Charles Band. If it’s killer puppets and unsexy nudity you want, look no further.
The archive is and from the following year. Yet Band’s back catalogue includes some genuinely decent films. Like his rip-off . Here, a 23rd-century cop called Jack Deth returns to 1985 to hunt ‘squid’ zombies. It’s legitimately fab. Then there’s from 1989; it’s baffling at times, but the puppets are amazing. I even enjoyed from 1990, a gothic horror filmed at Band’s own castle in Rome. Also known as , this was Band’s answer to a soft-focusTV hit at the time – the interspecies romance – but he throws in circus dwarves, rapist magicians and Sherilyn Fenn from having sex with a big hairy Sasquatch fella. For vampires, try (1991). Shot in Romania, it revels in cliché, but the production values are surprisingly high. Four sequels followed. The Lovecraft-inspired (1995) is an atmospheric delight, from the same team that made the iconic horror .
