Tide half a day) varies in a two-week cycle. Approximately twice a month, around new moon and full moon when the Sun, Moon, and Earth form a line (a configuration known as a syzygy), the tidal force due to the Sun reinforces that due to the Moon. The tide's range is then at its maximum; this is called the spring tide. It is not named after the season, but, like that word, derives from the meaning "jump, burst forth, rise", as in a natural spring. When the Moon is at first quarter or third quarter, the Sun and Moon are separated
Full Moon Features each tape). In 1995, due to the direct-to-video market losing interest and financial ground with the rental market in addition to internal issues, Full Moon Entertainment separated from distributor Paramount. Full Moon's Halloween 1995 production "Castle Freak" was released on video unrated. After the releases of "Castle Freak" and "", Band renamed Full Moon Entertainment, Full Moon Studios for the feature "Vampire Journals" and used the name Full Moon Pictures for the following film "Hideous!". Band continued to distribute all films on his own under then name of Amazing Fantasy Entertainment until around 1999 when some of the films were