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Last year, Charles Band’s company Full Moon announced that they were launching a new production label called Pulp Noir, which would focus on “edgier, weirder, darker horror and dark fantasy films.” Two Pulp Noir movies, Quadrant and Death Streamer, have since made their way through production – and while those movies were initially released in color, all of the Pulp Noir movies will also get black & white “noir” releases, so there are both color and black & white versions of Quadrant and Death Streamer available on the Full Moon Features streaming service. While we wait for more Pulp Noir movies to be made, Band has started going through the Full Moon library to give some of their older films the black & white / noir treatment. This noir series, which is expected to consist of at least a dozen films, got started with a black & white version of the 1984 sci-fi thriller Christmas classic Trancers.

Stars: Michael Citriniti, Rhonda Griffin, Mel Johnson Jr., Jacqueline Lovell, Tracie May, Jerry O’Donnell, Andrew Johnston | Written by Benjamin Carr | Directed by Charles Band

Not much more than a group of actors sat round in a Romanian castle (the very same one owned by Charles Band that featured in Castle Freak no doubt) talking trash to each other, with the occasional appearance by a group of deformed “creatures”… that is the plot of Hideous! in a nutshell. Although the official synopsis goes something like this: “Dr. Lorca, an eccentric collector of biological oddities, has just acquired his greatest specimen; a horrible mutant born of noxious waste… but the creature’s rightful owner wants it back. The collector’s clash is cut short though, as the sickening specimen comes to life, re-animating an angry, oozing little army of ferocious freaks.”

If you read my The Creeps review from a few...

What happened to the original Demonic Toys? And does one need to see the original to see Demonic Toys 2? Life is all about risks and in Demonic Toys 2 the characters risk their lives trying to escape a "nine hundred year old Italian castle (IMDb)." The film is heavy in special effects, but the film has been described as "pisspoor" and "a cinematic shit sandwich (Killer Film)." So purchasing Demonic Toys 2 might be a risk to your pocketbook and your own mental health. A trailer is available for those who like the demon possessed dolls. For every one else, have a laugh at the clip that could have been called "When Freaky Looking Dolls Go Wild!"

The trailer for Demonic Toys 2 here:

"A group of people on a world wide search for oddities find themselves trapped in a nine hundred year old Italian castle when they accident...

Writer/director William Butler pointed us over to two clips from his latest movie Demonic Toys 2: Personal Demons , the new sequel to Full Moon's other killer dolls. Both clips feature Caitlin (Alli Kinzel) and David (Lane Compton) exploring the castle where they eventually uncover the recently stitched together demonic toys. Michael Citriniti returns as Dr. Lorca from Hideous . Check out our extensive interview with William Butler on all things Demonic Toys right here . You can also check out the trailer at our previous news post here . Synopsis: Dr. Lorca from Hideous! (Michael Citrini) is back and is continuing to collect strange odditites, along with the help of Caitlin (Alli Kinzel) and her boyfriend David (Lane Compton). Along the way, they collect the mysterious...

A memorable day at The Players club, as Food for Thought Productions presented a tribute to Rod Serling and The Twilight Zone. (L to R) Jeremy Hollingworth, Katharine Luckinbill, Fritz Weaver, director Tony Marsellis, Anne Serling and Michael Citriniti. (Photo copyright Lee Pfeiffer/Cinema Retro)

By Lee Pfeiffer

On December 10, Food for Thought Productions staged another of their memorable events at The Players, the legendary arts club at Gramercy Park in New York City. A talented group of actors gathered to pay tribute to the late, great Rod Serling. The event offered a reading by Serling's daughter Anne in which she poignantly and touchingly recalls what life was like growing up with a father who was regarded as one of the entertainment industry's great talents. Anne Serling told a story similar to that of other children of celebrities: to her, he was just "dad" - a funny, gentle man who...

Full Moon chief Charles Band is gearing up for his Fourth Annual Full Moon Horror Road Show, which launches in San Diego, CA on September 30 and wraps October 28 in Madison, Wi. And Fango is giving away tix in each of the cities the exploitation guru will be touching down in.

Here’s the deal: The first 10 people from each city (see list below) to name their favorite Puppetmaster character get four tickets to the show on the corresponding day. To enter, send an e-mail to ry@fullmoonfeatures.com. List your city/Full Moon Road Show as the subject (a must!), plus your phone number and complete mailing address, and tell ’em Fango sent ya.

“Aside from completing three films—Skull Heads hits DVD next month [watch for a set-visit story on this website], Demonic Toys 2 is out in December and Puppetmaster: Axis Of Evil arrives February 2010—I’m busy prepping for the Road Show,” Band tells Fango.