Charles Band

Full Moon Entertainment's tenure at Paramount Pictures ended in bitter acrimony following a disagreement over the actual budget of Shocking Fear (1994)), based on the H.P. Lovecraft story. Band claimed the budget to be around $300,000, but Paramount executives didn't buy it; that was the end of Full Moon's direct-to-video heyday. The actual budget, as it turned out, was well below $100,000.

There's no formula for making a good genre film. Everybody seems to come up with one, but you really can't create anything that's going to have value four or five years from now. This is a business that changes every year. Everybody is looking for the next trend, but nobody can predict it.