Full Moon Features is an American independent motion picture production and distribution company headed by B-movie veteran Charles Band.

[citation needed] After the collapse of Band's previous film studio Empire Pictures, he moved back to the United States from Rome and opened Full Moon Productions.

In the United States, Canada, and several foreign territories, from the company's very humble beginnings, Full Moon teamed with Paramount Pictures and Pioneer Home Entertainment for direct-to-video releasing on VHS and LaserDisc and the first release was the feature film directed by David Schmoeller, Puppet Master in 1989, and designed to create the company under the umbrella of Bandcompany, Inc.[1] Puppet Master turned out to be a huge hit for Full Moon.

The next three releases—Shadowzone, Meridian: Kiss of the Beast, and Crash and Burn (changing to Full Moon Entertainment with the release of the latter)—all featured a making-of presentation after the film.

Schmoeller continues, saying that Band didn't want him on the director's commentary on the DVD release of Puppet Master, because "it would reveal that someone else shared in the creation of Full Moon's biggest and most successful franchise.

[7] With the release of Shrieker in 1998, Band enlisted the help of Ohio-based filmmaker and Tempe Entertainment founder, J. R. Bookwalter, who had recently relocated to California.

Curse of the Puppet Master was created primarily out of market demand and isn't held in high regard with fans of the genre.

While the production drawbacks were high in each situation, this opportunity gave new exposure to Bookwalter and Tempe who was accustomed to producing films on shoestring budgets.

Veteran actor, William Shatner, hosted Full Moon films with wraparounds, as well as interviews with many of sci-fi's most notable personalities, including Stan Lee and Jeffrey Combs.

Blockbuster Entertainment, a longtime supporter of the Full Moon brand requested the company produce a slasher film, due to the late '90s resurgence of this subgenre, thanks to Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer.

With the help of an uncredited Tempe Entertainment, Band produced Bleed and acquired Keith Walley's Scared, renaming it Cut Throat.

William Shatner's DV science-fiction movie Groom Lake, produced by J. R. Bookwalter became notorious as one of the most-expensive films of the modern era of Full Moon.

Band also decided around this time to bring back an old label used in the Empire era named Wizard Video, which distributed cult-like films.

However, after the film was completed, it was shelved due to a decline in the industry and low sales of another similar project at Fox (excluding Full Moon) entitled Dark Wolf.

The film was shown at the Frightvision Horror Festival in 2003, but while it has surfaced on Full Moon Streaming as of December 2013 under the name of Mega Scorpions, it has yet to see a release on DVD or Blu-ray.

Additionally, the company plans to add sequels to many franchises, including Puppet Master, Demonic Toys, and Head of the Family.