Full Moon

Region 0 - NTSC

1.33:1 Original Aspect Ratio
Average Bitrate: 5.6 mb/s
NTSC 720x480 29.97 f/s

1.33:1 Original Aspect Ratio
Average Bitrate: 4.56 mb/s
PAL 720x576 25.00 f/s

Single-layered Blu-ray MPEG4 - AVC

NOTE: The Vertical axis represents the bits transferred per second. The Horizontal is the time in minutes.

Full Moon

88 Films

88 Films Blu-ray

English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen - 1.33:1

Edition Details:
• VideoZone making-of (4:3; 23:29)
• Full Moon Merchandise Promo (4:3; 1:29)
• Cast Filmographies

DVD Release Date: 28 July 1998
Amaray

Chapters 24
 

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen - 1.33:1

Edition Details:
• VideoZone making-of (4:3; 23:31)
• Trailer (4:3; 1:30)
• 1981 bonus film 'The Best of and Violence' (Ken Dixon; 1:16:09)
• Full Moon Trailer Park

 

Chapters 8

Chapters12  

ADDITION: 88 Films - Region 'B' - Blu-ray (August 2017): The 88 Films transfer is described as a "Brand new HD master, restored from the original 35mm camera negative". It is not in 3D. Funny thing here, I couldn't match the first two captures - as if they came from different cameras. Hey, maybe they did ?!? (since 3D uses 2 cameras?)

88 Films use a linear PCM 2.0 channel at 1536 kbps (16-bit) and the film's amateurish effects come across with some minor depth. Carl Dante (who composed for such titles as Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death, Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity, Kraa! The Sea Monster and Lolita 2000) did the unremarkable score but it oddly suits the film. There are optional English subtitles (see sample) and the Blu-ray disc is region 'B'-locked.

Supplements mimic the 2014 DVD with the 22-minute Full Moon Videozone Behind the Scenes of The Creeps and a trailer, but we lose the 1/4 hour 'best of sex and violence' video.

One of the, few, high points in The Creeps is Rhonda Griffin who is funny and has a kinda 'Naomi Watts thing' going on. Amusing but not easy to watch - even at 1 1/4 hours, The Creeps must carry some nostalgia being 20-years old. Goofy, fun, but that's all folks.

Gary Tooze

***

ON THE DVDs: Both discs are sourced from clean nineties video masters, but 88 Film's transfer is an NTSC-PAL conversion with jerky movements whenever the camera pans. The US disc is the sharper, minutely more detailed one in this case. The Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo tracks are of similar quality.

According to IMDb, THE CREEPS was shot in 35mm in StereoVision 3D, but neither DVD edition compared here is in 3D (although there are two 3D DVD editions available stateside from Full Moon themselves and Razor3D). StereoVision was a 2.35:1 - the only Full Moon production shot in this aspect ratio - process with two images captured on each frame (one on the top two perforations and the other on the bottom two), and both transfers do seem rather severely cropped (before I found out about the original aspect ratio, I just assumed the fullscreen framing was just aggressively "arty"). If the aforementioned 3D DVD editions are new transfers and not some post-produced monstrosity, then they may offer the only way to see the film in its original aspect ratio.

The UK disc does include in its favor an entire bonus feature, Ken Dixon's 1981 THE BEST OF SEX AND VIOLENCE (also available on disc domestically from Full Moon Direct) - from a considerably more worn tape master - in which John Carradine makes caustically introduces a number of exploitation film trailers ("The film was released in 1971. The producer will be released in 1990"). A theatrical release, the film's credits and most of the trailers are noticeably cropped from 1.85:1.

Both discs feature the film's VideoZone making-of featurette while the UK disc also includes the film's trailer and trailers for other Full Moon titles.

 - Eric Cotenas