Wizard Video
Wizard Video was a motion picture distribution company created by B movie veteran Charles Band after he left Media Home Entertainment, who would later go on to found Full Moon Features. They were best known for their VHS releases of "Zombie 2", "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", and "I Spit on Your Grave". 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. These  titles were originally duplicated by the company Sound/Video Unlimited. The company once had an distribution agreement with Family Home Entertainment in order to distribute the company's catalog on videocassette between 1982 and 1983. The distribution agreement was transferred to Spectrum Video in 1983, before it was transferred to Lightning Video in 1986. Wizard Video is also known for creating the two Atari 2600 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, as well as several films under the "Cult Video" logo. Both of these labels were introduced in 1982, and would later shut down in 1983. On October 8, 1986, Wizard Video decided to release a second film from Tycin Entertainment in January 1987, called "Robot Holocaust", after the company Tycin had closed a 10-picture deal with Wizard Video  that cost a budget of $1-$1.5 million, and the rest of the pictures received by Tyson for Wizard received only $1 million. In the 1980s, Wizard Video was one of the units of Empire International Pictures. In 1985, Empire revived the Force Video label and both Wizard Video and Force Video received distribution agreements with Lightning Video, a subsidiary of Vestron Video to distribute the films, which also distributed the mainstream Empire library. In 1987, Wizard Video launched yet another video sublabel, Urban Classics Video. Both of these would later shut down in the late 1980s. The Cult  Video branding was revived as a distribution label in the late 1990s when Full Moon jumped ship into video distribution. In 2005, Full Moon Features revived Wizard Entertainment as a distribution label for DVDs and Blu-rays, until it was shut down in the early 2010s. On February 7, 2013, Charles Band claimed to have rediscovered copies of 36 Wizard Video title boxes, as well as Wizard's video game boxes, in one of his storage warehouses. 32 of the 36 films were re-released as limited editions on a four-titles-per-month basis starting on February 12, with  the inner clamshell cases and tapes being new production. The entire supply of the remaining 4 films was discovered to be water damaged and would not be released; the two games will be re-released at a later date. In 2014, the Wizard Video brand was re-launched as Wizard Studios "to spotlight rising independent filmmakers and their cutting-edge genre pictures" with the first wave of films - "Virginia Obscura", "Vampie", "Villanelle" - premiering on Band's Full Moon Features subscription-based streaming service. List of movies released by Force Video (1982-1983; 1985-1986). Note: Films with an "FV" code  are from the original 1982-1983 era; the "FA" code is from the 1985-1986 revival era.