jmj713

These REALLY need remasters. Will Full Moon ever release a 9-film set with every movies actually remastered?

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

I doubt they will anytime soon since they seem to be trying to put out all the stuff they couldn't before and in crappy transfers.

Cameron

i would assume once they exhaust all the left over dvds, and if the demand is there

Wick

I saw the original release once at a local used CD/DVD store. I inquired into whether or not I could purchase it, and the clerk told me that somebody had it reserved. I'm kind of glad that I didn't buy it, because it didn't seem to be in that great of condition. Also, I've only seen Puppet Master 4, which was pretty good.

xage

It feels so good after a long wait to get this in an economical cost...

jmj713

The box doesn't even have all the movies in the series.

lcnickell

hard to find a box that houses 73 films.

i'm seen porn films with less and better squels.

but yeah i got the box as well.

OldBoy

there were 73 "Puppet Master" films? how is that possible?

xage

Puppet Master Legacy and Puppet Master VS Demonic Toys were the ones not included...

And they were not the only (among horror boxsets) incomplete in boxset series.

1. The Friday The 13th series did not came with Jason Goes To Hell, Jason X and Freddy Vs Jason

2. The Nightmare in Elm Street Boxset did not came with Freddy VS Jason

3. Child's Play Boxset did not even came with Child's Play 1

4. Evil Dead Books Of the Dead Boxset did not came with Army Of Darkness


Overall.. You should know that there is what you called "License" and that is the reason why some boxsets are not that complete.

Matthew Chmiel

Um. Not really. It's more due to which company owns the distribution rights -- and in terms of some films, the rights to the character or the trademark.

For example, Paramount owns the distribution rights to the first eight Friday the 13th films. Whereas New Line does own the copyrights to the Jason character as Paramount sold it to them, they own the rights to the last two films plus Freddy vs. Jason.

Same thing applies to Universal. MGM/20th Century Fox own the distribution rights to Child's Play, but Universal owns the rights to Chucky plus the distribution to all the sequels.

Full Moon only owns the first seven films of Puppet Master as those are the ones they specifically produced (which is kinda funny considering The Legacy consists of archival footage of the entire series). The other two films are owned by different companies, thus why they're not apart of the boxset.

And is Full Moon even in business anymore? I wouldn't be shocked if we see a DVD release down the road from a different company. Let it be Anchor Bay, Blue Underground, Unearthed Films, Dark Sky Pictures -- anybody to be honest. Shit. I'm sure the same could be said about Troma with the way that company's headed.

xage

I should have change it to License & Distribution.

However, the said rights are also regional.

Anyways... the said Boxset is still the best Puppet Master series out there! and its Region code free!

SterlingBen

Yes but that set predates Freddy VS Jason, I remember that was the first big box set I got on dvd 74 dollar range back when I got my first dvd player
Yeah I know whatever happened to there latest movie that was suppose to come out half a decade ago?

BlueCC

Nobody has pointed out that this set was released in 2000 and the last 2 movies were released in 2004.

Carcosa

The poster ahead of me is correct...the last 2 movies were done AFTER the box set was released.

The box set was distributed by Koch and was pulled when Paramont put the kabash on the thing since they still controlled the rights in the US. I also am a bit suspicious about the seemingly endless supply of sets "uncovered" by FULL MOON in the past few years. The 70-ish qty of sets seems more like 700 or more. They were/are selling them even now on their website for $50 (a 50% off sale still running as of yesterday) a few years later. Those Koch sets were going upwards of $300 on eBay not long ago...

Charlie Band has been struggling to keep FULL MOON together for years now and he seems to be climbing out of the hole at last. God bless him for hanging in there and if he's making a few bucks on semi bogus "lost" Puppet master DVD set, well good for him. He deserves it more than the eBay speculators thats for sure.

Peep

Interesting. Is the free shipping still being offered?

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

They only said at first it was a limited supply which is true. 50,000 or even one million would be a limited supply.

I figured they had a warehouse full of the ones they couldn't sell anymore and they "discovered" it when they got the rights back.

FYI: They are going to do a 50% off sale on Valentine's Day. This includes everything except for and brand new box sets(at least that's what they did last year). This includes posters, clothing, movies, anything.

man*machine

But DID they ever get the rights back? Every DVD release from this shady company (and taking into account Band's shady history as well) seems to have a bogus-type sales pitch. "We found some old sealed copies in our warehouse", "it's an Australian import DVD set and it's in NTSC-region 1 - so we can sell it", etc. Band probably had a clause with Paramount that he retained ownership of already produced copies to do with what he wants. Suddenly, all these already-produced copies wasting away in these ephemeral warehouses all across Hollywood suddenly appear, and "import versions" never released anywhere are amazingly imported to the US for sale. Ya, this company is definitely playing by the rules. Paramount probably just doesn't give a s*** anymore and lets Band do what he wants as the value of these films aren't really worth it to such a major studio.

asianxcore

Lets hope they include box sets this year.

I missed out on the $50 Puppet Master Box because I decided to buy the Buffy: Chosen Collection this past X-Mas.

I still need to get this set, crappy transfers or not. Xage, I'm jealous.

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

Last year the only two they didn't do was one set that was a pre-order and one that came out right before the sale.

I bought a couple shirts, posters, 7(?) statues, and tons of dvds.

Carcosa

Ooops...the 50% sale ended as of 12-31...sorry 'bout that.

LeeVing

hey!!??? that sounds like my "Stuart Gordon Box Set". i knew getting Pit and the Pendulum for real cheap was too good to be true.

[END SARCASM]

i knew this was a shady set when I bought it...the keepcases stink like the cheap ones you get at walmart...but it was 15 bucks used, so not too bad.

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

They the sold import versions of all the Puppet Master movies on their site before they started selling the Puppet Master box sets again. Same with some of the other movies like Subspecies.

dcrw6

I've always viewed Band as being the true owner of these films, so to me, all the discs on his site are legit and official releases to me. Especially since Paramount would never give half a damn about these films.

Carcosa

Yeah, right...KANGAROO VIDEO in Australia....there is NO such company. It's an apparent loophole that allows them a way to sell the DVDs here in the US as imports...so I can only assume Band STILL has issues with domestic rights. And besides, PAL is the native format in Australia.

Its all pretty amusing...but am happy to see these films available again and on DVD at last. They may not have the best transger quality but hey, its FM movies. I bought the SUBSPECIES set and was most pleased to have it. I'll buy the sets that have the older FULL MOON titles eventually...

Carcosa

Yes...I agree. Nobody but him is interested in getting these things out on the market. I too think they are legit from my perspective...

I just wish he wouldn't use the smelly Meritline DVD cases...