Full Moon Entertainment's tenure at Paramount Pictures ended in bitter acrimony following a disagreement over the actual budget of
Lurking Fear (1994)), based on the
H.P. Lovecraft story. Band claimed the budget to be around $300,000, but Paramount executives didn't buy it; that was the end of Full Moon's direct-to-video heyday. The actual budget, as it turned out, was well below $100,000.