Full Moon's Repeat Offenders: Megan Ward

Megan Ward is not exactly a household name, even among Full Moon fans.  She has, however, been in a trio of them...

Her big break was playing the jail-bait, reincarnation of Jack Deth's wife in Trancers II.  You know, the only good entry in the series.

She returned for one more film in the series- Trancers III.  Her role is minor and mostly expository.  She was written out of Trancers IV in a lazy way and never returned for V or VI.

Finally, she appeared as the female lead in 1993's Arcade, a film that literally went out-of-print a week or so after I reviewed it.  Did I jinx it?

Full Moon's Repeat Offenders: Phil Fondacaro

For those people that haven't been with the site since the beginning, I used to try out a number of series' to see what would stick.  One of them was Repeat Offenders, which covered two different genre actors in it's history: Reb Brown and Sarah Douglas.

Well, it's back for more- Platinum Dunes-style.

Full Moon Studios makes use of the same pool of actors a lot.  I guess it saves on budgets, turn-around-time and a feel of familiarity.  I think it's time to look at some of this more in-depth.  First up: Phil Fondacaro.

To put it simply, Phil is a 'little person.'  That's gotten him many 'in-suit' roles for films like Return of the Jedi or parts where plays Leprechauns, gnomes, etc.  In Full Moon films though, all bets are off!

One of his first roles in a Band film came in Ghoulies II, a film that's decent.  It's not logical, but it's fun.

Next came a small role in Dollman vs. Demonic Toys.  He's in it because he's a 'little person' and nothing more.

In 1997, he got his best role in The Creeps.  He plays a tiny Dracula who actually has a personality.  Considering that every other monster grunts and drools, he stands out...

1999 brought him a small, but pivotal role in Blood Dolls.  I'm not a fan, but he does do a good job in his two-dimensional role.

His last real Full Moon role came in 2005 with Decadent Evil.  He's a midget vampire hunter- that's it.

He apparently turned down/wasn't available for the sequel, leading to the casting of a 'look-alike' in a fake beard.  He did, however, show up for a cameo in Evil Bong, alongside Tim Thomerson and others.  More on him later though...

Repeat Offenders: Sarah Douglas

Evil often comes in very innocuous names. Such is the case with today's offender. Her's is a name that you may not recognize, but a face that you will. Yes, she played the female villain from "Superman II." A good movie, but not as great as the original thanks to some studio intervention. More on that in Death of a Series: Superman.Her next big film was Conan the Destroyer. Another good film, albeit more flawed than its classic predecessor. It does not go up much from here. This was followed up with The Return of Swamp Thing. I, personally, like this movie for it's tongue in cheek style and pulpy fun, but it is certainly not a 'good' movie.Next came Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time. Most people know this as the 'what the hell happened to Marc Singer's face' movie. As if that was not enough, she appeared next in Puppet Master 3: Toulon's Revenge. 

Do I even need to comment? I did not think so. 

 Inexplicably, she ended up in Meatballs 4. Since I have no pictures of it without boobs in them, you don't get any. Next, you have Return of the Living Dead: Part 3. While not as bad as most on this list, it is still not good. 

She followed that with Mirror Mirror 2: Raven Dance. Never heard of the original or this? Me neither. But, it does exist. 

Sara was also in the TV movie sequel to The Stepford Wives entitled The Stepford Husbands. Fortunately, that was the end of...oh right, that one. Her last sequel is an Chained Heat 3: Hell Mountain. In fairness, this is a fake sequel to the W.I.P. film. However, she still plays the sultry warden in a film called Hell Mountain. 

 At this point, I should also mention that she was in the epic fail Quest of the Delta Knights. I'm a dick like that. This is the opposite of 'Escaping the Blast,' since she jumped right into it. 

Doh!

 More offenders to come. Stay tuned...

Repeat Offenders: Reb Brown

When you watch crap all the time, a lot of the same people just keep popping up. You begin to wonder why. Then you realize that it is because they just suck. At that point, you laugh at them. Here is one such example...

Reb Brown

Even the guy's name is kind of dumb. What the hell is 'Reb' anyways? Is it like 'Rev' if you have a lisp? Anyhow...

This man has a litany of bad movies to his credit. He started off with this gem, where he turned my favorite comic book character into, well, this...
He followed that up with his own barbarian movie a la Conan or Krull. This one is called Yor, Hunter from the Future. It is as dumb as it sounds. He also wears this...
We also cannot forget that he is in one really bad sequel- The Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf. This is probably the highest point of his career, which is as sad as it sounds...The name should be more clear now though. He was in Space Mutiny, a bad film that dared to steal special-effects from 'Battlestar Galactica." Of course, most of us will recognize the film this way...