{"id":42990,"date":"2024-03-01T14:33:50","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T19:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=42990"},"modified":"2024-03-01T14:33:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T19:33:50","slug":"five-underrated-full-moon-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/01\/five-underrated-full-moon-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Underrated Full Moon Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Full Moon is still trotting out films to this day and while they haven\u2019t released a bonafide classic in literal years, they\u2019re at least embracing their history and still give classic Full Moon fans their rewards and due. Being a fan of Full Moon since the old days when me and my family were at the mom and pop video store every Friday scowering the shelves for that evening\u2019s entertainment, I thought I\u2019d list five underrated titles from the whole Full Moon umbrella. This also includes Moonbeam, Pulse Pounders, and Monster Island, et al.<\/p>\n

Many of these films can be found on their official streaming service, as well as Tubi TV.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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5. <\/strong>The \u201cMonster Island\u201d Movieverse
\n<\/strong>As a part of their attempts to build this elaborate\u2014somewhat coherent Kaijuniverse, Full Moon went all out creating three separate but loosely tied together movies that created this one alternate universe. There\u2019s 1996\u2019s \u201cZarkorr! The Invader\u201d a movie about a giant monster whose only enemy is an average man and his small female assistant. It was re-edited in to \u201cKraa! The Sea Monster\u201d from 1998 about a fish faced monster being fought by the Planet Patrol! Then there\u2019s 1999\u2019s \u201cPlanet Patrol\u201d a scifi movie about a group of \u201cPower Rangers-esque\u201d teens that fight Lord Doom in their space ship and get pro-active in their fight against his evil. It all goes nowhere, but it\u2019s so damn fun. I\u2019m still holding out for a \u201cSpace Patrol\u201d reboot.<\/p>\n

4. Remote (1993)
\n<\/strong>Charles Band\u2019s answer to \u201cHome Alone\u201d finds a rambunctious kid with a love for remote controlled apparatuses who is hiding out in a model home and crosses paths with a group of armed robbers. Using his remote-controlled vehicles and figures, he matches wits with them and ultimately foils their crimes. This is a bizarre kid\u2019s film, but a fun one with some really cool remote-controlled gizmos and gadgets that only the \u201cRadio Shack\u201d generation could have produced.<\/p>\n

\u00a03. <\/strong>Goobers! (1997)
\n<\/strong>This movie may or may not be connected to the \u201cPuppet Master\u201d series but in my head canon, it very much is. This is another of the attempts at kids films involving a pair of kids that begin working for a popular children\u2019s show whose mascots happen to be living and breathing creatures from another dimension. In the list of Full Moon movies revolving around miniature monsters, \u201cGoobers\u201d is rarely mentioned.<\/p>\n

\u00a02.<\/strong> Prehysteria! (1993)
\n<\/strong>Not really underrated per se, but still often overlooked among the greater kids movies from the nineties, this banked on the big dinosaur craze of the decade by giving us a fantasy adventure starring\u2014yes\u2014mini dinosaurs. This is a family adventure revolving around pint sized dinosaurs with their own unique personalities and rambunctious personas. I wish we\u2019d get a big budget remake. At the very least, it was popular enough to spawn two sequels.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Spellcaster (1991)
\n<\/strong>There\u2019s Adam Ant, Bunty Bailey, and a big castle, and a lot of new wave rock and roll and what is basically a slasher movie with the slasher being a powerful wizard hiding in his tower. \u201cSpellcaster\u201d aims for the classic EC Comics aesthetic, dwelling on themes about greed, gluttony, and deceit while also delivering on some fun horror set pieces. This includes a murderous chair, and a man who literally turns in to a murderous pig while eating a roast pig. A million dollars will do that to people. That was a lot of money in 1991.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Full Moon is still trotting out films to this day and while they haven\u2019t released a bonafide classic in literal years, they\u2019re at least embracing their history and still give classic Full Moon fans their rewards and due. Being a fan of Full Moon since the old days when me and my family were at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[185,482,580,809],"class_list":["post-42990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-moon-friday","category-list-junkies","tag-charles-band","tag-horrror","tag-kids","tag-puppets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42992,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42990\/revisions\/42992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}