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B movie
A B movie is a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not definitively an arthouse or pornographic film. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature....
veteran Charles Band, who would later go on to found Full Moon Features
Full Moon Features
Full Moon Features is a motion picture production and distribution company headed by B-movie veteran Charles Band. It is known for the direct-to-video series Puppet Master and Subspecies, as well as the innovative VideoZone featurette at the end of films through 1989 to 2000.-Full Moon...
. They were best known for their VHS releases of Zombie 2
Zombi 2
Zombi 2 is a 1979 zombie horror film directed by Lucio Fulci. It is the best-known of Fulci's films and made him a horror icon. Though the title suggests this is a sequel to Zombi Zombi 2 (also known as Zombie, Island of the Living Dead, Zombie Island, Zombie Flesh Eaters and Woodoo) is a 1979...
, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a 1974 American independent horror film directed and produced by Tobe Hooper, who cowrote it with Kim Henkel. It stars Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow, and Gunnar Hansen, who respectively portray Sally Hardesty, Franklin Hardesty, the...
, and I Spit on Your Grave
I Spit On Your Grave
Day of the Woman is a 1978 controversial rape revenge film. The film received a limited release, with a wider release in 1980. Prominent film critics condemned the film for its graphic violence and lengthy depictions of gang rape, and the motion picture remains controversial to this day...
. They were also well known for their detailed (and often lurid) box art, especially after their switch to the "big box" format. So popular was the label that Charles Band has begun reissuing titles (starting with 1989's Intruder) under the old Wizard Video banner.
Wizard Video is also known for creating the two Atari 2600
Atari 2600
The Atari 2600 is a video game console released in October 1977 by Atari, Inc. It is credited with popularizing the use of microprocessor-based hardware and cartridges containing game code, instead of having non-microprocessor dedicated hardware with all games built in...
video games The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Halloween under the name Wizard Video Games. However, these games were aimed at the adult market; so, because of its violent content, these games were either banned from stores or hidden behind the counter and only taken out by request. This caused the games to become rare and sales were small, causing the company to stop making video games.
The company also distributed films under the "Force Video" logo.
List of movies released on video by Wizard Video
Bad Georgia Road (1977)The Best of Sex and Violence (1981)
Beyond Atlantis (1973)
The Boogey Man (1980)
Breeders (1986)
Carnival of Blood (1970)
Christina, princesse de l'érotisme (a.k.a. A Virgin Among the Dead) (1973)
Come rubare un quintale di diamanti in Russia (a.k.a. Mission Phantom) (1967)
Dixie Dynamite (1976)
Dreamaniac (1986)
Drive in Massacre (1977)
The Driller Killer (1979)
Elsa Fräulein SS (a.k.a. Fraulein Devil) (1977)
Emanuelle bianca e nera (a.k.a. Emanuelle Black and White) (1976)
Emanuelle - Perché violenza alle donne? (a.k.a. Emanuelle Around the World) (1977)
Equinox (1970)
The Great McGonagall (1974)
The Harrad Experiment (1973)
The Headless Eyes (1971)
I misteri della giungla nera (a.k.a. The Snake Hunter Strangler (1965)
I Spit on Your Grave (1978)
Il camorrista (a.k.a. The Professor) (1986)
Il plenilunio delle vergini (a.k.a. The Devil's Wedding Night) (1973)
L'abîme des morts vivants (a.k.a. Oasis of the Zombies) (1981)
La montagna del dio cannibale (a.k.a. Slave of the Cannibal God) (1978)
Lager SSadis Kastrat Kommandantur (a.k.s. S.S. Experiment) (1976)
La vie amoureuse de l'homme invisible (a.k.a. The Invisible Dead) (1971)
Le lac des morts vivants (a.k.a. Zombie Hunt) (1981)
Madinga (1976)
The Mafu Cage (1981)
Miss Nude America (1976)
Mutant Hunt (1987)
Phenomenal and the Treasure of Tutankhamen (1968)
Pink Flamingos (1972)
Psychos in Love (1987)
Revenge in the House of Usher (1982)
Robot Holocaust (1986)
Sister Streetfighter (1974)
The Streetfighter's Last Revenge (1974)
Terminal Island (1977)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Train spécial pour SS (a.k.a. Helltrain) (1977)
Zombie 2 (1979)
Zombiethon (1986)
List of movies released by Force Video
12 + 1 (a.k.a. The Thirteen ChairsThe Thirteen Chairs
The Thirteen Chairs is a comedy film released in 1969. It was based on The Twelve Chairs, a 1928 satirical novel by the Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov. It was directed by Nicolas Gessner and Luciano Lucignani, and starred Sharon Tate , Vittorio Gassman, Orson Welles, Vittorio De Sica and Tim...
) (1969)
Contes immoraux (a.k.a. Immoral Tales
Immoral Tales (film)
Immoral Tales is a 1974 French anthology film directed by Walerian Borowczyk. The film was Borowczyk's most sexually explicit at the time. The film is split into four erotic themed stories that involve the loss of virginity, masturbation, bloodlust and incest.After the release of Immoral Tales,...
) (1974)
Eroi all'inferno (a.k.a. Heroes in Hell (film)
Heroes in Hell (film)
Heroes in Hell is a 1973 Italian war film directed by Joe D'Amato and starring Klaus Kinski. -Cast:* Lars Bloch* Rosemarie Lindt* Luciano Rossi * Luis Joyce* Franco Garofalo * Stan Simon* Dick Foster...
) (1973)
Fiend (1980)
Filmgore (1983)
Hellcommandos (1968)
Hi-Riders
Hi-Riders
Hi-Riders is a 1978 action film written and directed by Greydon Clark.-Plot:Mark and Lynn get caught up in a story of hatred and revenge after trying to collect on a bet with a Hi-Rider. The Hi-Riders are challenged to a drag race by one of the local hot heads and in a spectacular explosion both...
(1978)
Isabella, duchessa dei diavoli (a.k.a. Ms. Stiletto) (1969)
Karzan, il favoloso uomo della jungla (a.k.a. Jungle Master) (1972)
Le Orme (a.k.a. Primal Impulse) (1975)
Les avaleuses (a.k.a. Erotic Kill) (1973)
Mister Zehn Prozent - Miezen und Moneten (a.k.a. The Psychopath) (1968)
Queen Kelly
Queen Kelly
Queen Kelly is the title of an American silent film produced in 1928-29 and released in 1929, originally by United Artists. The film was directed by Erich von Stroheim, starred Gloria Swanson in the title role, and also starred Walter Byron and Seena Owen. It was produced by Joseph P...
(1929)
Savage Island (1985)
Schiave bianche: violenza in Amazzonia (a.k.a. White Slave) (1985)
Schlock
Schlock (film)
Schlock is a 1973 low-budget satire film, written, directed by and starring filmmaker John Landis.-Plot:Schlock, a prehistoric apeman who falls in love with a teenage blind beauty and terrorizes her Southern California suburb. Schlock is no ordinary simian; he possesses some very unusual skills....
(a.k.a. Banana Monster) (1973)
The Single Girls
The Single Girls
The Single Girls is a 1974 exploitation film about a group of swingers at a Caribbean resort who are stalked by a mysterious killer. The film was directed by Beverly Sebastion and Ferd Sebastion, and stars Claudia Jennings, Jean Marie Ingels, and Greg Mullavy....
(1973)
Two Thousand Maniacs!
Two Thousand Maniacs!
Two Thousand Maniacs! is a low budget 1964 splatter film directed and written by Herschell Gordon Lewis. It is the second part of what the director's fans have dubbed "The Blood Trilogy", including Blood Feast and Color Me Blood Red...
(1964)
Zombies (1964)
Zombiethon (1986)