Albert Pyun, the filmmaker behind cult favorite B-movies like "The Sword and the Sorcerer" and "Cyborg," died on Saturday 26 November, 2022, at the age of 69. Albert's wife, Cynthia Curnan, shared the news on social media, writing, "I sat with him for his last breath that sounded like he was releasing the weight of the world."
Per Variety, Pyun had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and dementia in recent years, but kept working on projects up until his death. "Its so rote. It's so part of my DNA. It's something I can do fairly effortlessly to keep my mind active," he told the Wall Street Journal in 2018.
While genre movies, and superhero movies in particular, currently dominate the box office and have nine-figure production budgets as standard, Pyun thrived in the arena of low-budget filmmaking. In a retrospective on his career, Pyun said that he worked on the 1993 B-movie "Arcade" for free,...
Per Variety, Pyun had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and dementia in recent years, but kept working on projects up until his death. "Its so rote. It's so part of my DNA. It's something I can do fairly effortlessly to keep my mind active," he told the Wall Street Journal in 2018.
While genre movies, and superhero movies in particular, currently dominate the box office and have nine-figure production budgets as standard, Pyun thrived in the arena of low-budget filmmaking. In a retrospective on his career, Pyun said that he worked on the 1993 B-movie "Arcade" for free,...
- 11/27/2022
- by Hannah Shaw-Williams
- Slash Film
The free Avod Dread app has acquired a grip of new movies from Charles Brand’s Full Moon Features with plans to release new titles on Fridays over the next few months. The first one, Castle Freak, hit our streaming service on […]
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- 1/6/2020
- by Josh Millican
- DreadCentral.com
Here is something that should be of interest to not only horror fans but also budding and aspiring filmmakers out there. Have you ever wanted to learn how to make a horror movie but are too lazy to get your foot in the door at the entry level and get your hands bloody? Well, Charles Brand and his company Full Moon Productions have something in store for all of us couch potato filmmakers out there and it is called Deadly Ten. Full Moon will live stream the production of ten original feature films on the Deadly Ten website. That's right, watch ten horror films get made in real time starting this June. You can log in and watch everything, good and bad, that...
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- 4/20/2019
- Screen Anarchy
There are certain films where you can’t help but wish you’d been a fly on the wall in whatever room where the brainstorming for the plot occurred. In the case of Ghost Warrior, you can’t help but feel someone read an article about the discovery of a caveman frozen in ice, and then began fantasizing about how much cooler it would be if, instead of a caveman, the frozen person was a samurai or a Viking. At which point, the mind starts overflowing with hypothetical situations. What would then happen if the frozen samurai was unfrozen in modern times? How would he survive in a modern city? How would he react to gang violence? Would he pledge allegiance to a master, or be a ronin (technically, his master is dead)? Maybe these thoughts haven’t crossed your mind, but they did to Tim Curnen and Charles Brand,...
- 1/8/2012
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
With Full Moon’s recent announcement of their Grindhouse Series, a re-release of many films that were previously lost in transition from VHS to other formats. I got to thinking about a film that I loved growing up that was from a label that was founded by Full Moon in order to release mainly family friendly films called Moonbeam Entertainment. If you grew up in the 90s, you may remember the Prehysteria series, which was the best-received release from Moonbeam Entertainment during it’s lifespan ranging from 1993 until 1996.
In 1995, Moonbeam Entertainment released a kid’s movie entitled simply “Pet Shop”, I was thirteen years old and by this point completely obsessed with Charles Brand and Full Moon after falling in love with Puppet Master, Subspecies, and various other movies they had released. Growing up I knew the layout out of every video rental store in the area major chains and...
In 1995, Moonbeam Entertainment released a kid’s movie entitled simply “Pet Shop”, I was thirteen years old and by this point completely obsessed with Charles Brand and Full Moon after falling in love with Puppet Master, Subspecies, and various other movies they had released. Growing up I knew the layout out of every video rental store in the area major chains and...
- 10/14/2011
- by Ted Brown
- The Liberal Dead
We here at The Liberal Dead are huge fans of Charles Brand and Full Moon Features. When I heard they were doing a site relaunch filled to the brim with various forms of fan service I was beyond excited for what was to come. According to a press release from the site will include many interactive features including regular original video content from various Full Moon stars.
“Halloween is just around the corner,” says Band. “At FullMoonHorror.com, Halloween is going to be every day. The Internet and the new media revolution has shown that online is where the audience wants to get their entertainment. As a result, we’re building FullMoonHorror.com as an online ‘hangout’ where users from around the globe can get the Full Moon experience firsthand. The site will have exciting things happening all the time — a free, full length feature movie each week, interviews with celebrities,...
“Halloween is just around the corner,” says Band. “At FullMoonHorror.com, Halloween is going to be every day. The Internet and the new media revolution has shown that online is where the audience wants to get their entertainment. As a result, we’re building FullMoonHorror.com as an online ‘hangout’ where users from around the globe can get the Full Moon experience firsthand. The site will have exciting things happening all the time — a free, full length feature movie each week, interviews with celebrities,...
- 10/13/2011
- by Ted Brown
- The Liberal Dead
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