Admirable film.

It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Miguel (Alexander Waechter), a man afflicted with a particularly unrealistic facial scar, is sent to an asylum for rape and murder. With little evidence that he is cured, he is released five years later and immediately resumes his hobby of peering and leering at highly made-up women bedecked – barely – in stunning early 1980's attire. One reason for his behaviour appears to be his forbidden love for his sister Manuela (Nadja Gerganoff), who is happy to parade herself around him in suggested poses and revealing clothes but is appalled at continuing their forbidden relationship.Various characters come and go, sinister suggestions of stalking young girls is accompanied by Gerhard Heinz's mostly magnificent score (Pink Floyd were originally approached), and improbable and brightly coloured murders take place.Euro sleaze, eurotrash, eurotica or euro-horror: there are plenty of labels for allegedly exploitation films such as 'Bloody Moon', but a lot of them are unfairly maligned by the lazy definition. A lot of films directed by Spanish Director Jess Franco are far better than their reputations suggest. This, however, fits squarely within that category (Franco himself has labelled it s**t). It is Franco's contribution to the slasher genre.The first half is remarkably tame. For the most part, watching this is something of a chore, with much of the running time seemingly made up from scenes spliced in from other films. Stunning locations and pretty girls and boys aside, this is something of a chore, especially when the characters display such unstinting stupidity, often on the promise of sex.Yet it is worth continuing. The murders increase in frequency and bizarre gratuity (beheadings, stabbings and a knife protruding somewhat improbably from a nipple). The character of Angela (Olivia Pascal) staggers from witnessing one obscene set-piece after another and understandably is the scream-queen of this particular project. The scenes she witnesses actually gather together the somewhat isolated moments from earlier on and give them a coherency I wasn't expecting.In the end, against my earlier misgivings, 'Bloody Moon' ends up with a satisfying bloodbath filled with imaginative moments and a fairly convincing twist. Not Franco's best film, then, but somewhere in the middle.

A vicious crazed psycho brutally butchers assorted luscious young female students at a boarding school in Spain. Director Jess Franco, working from a suitably sick script by Erich Tomek, keeps the enjoyably twisted story moving along at a steady pace, delivers a handy helping of tacky gore (an uproariously ridiculous decapitation by a giant circular saw and the infamous knife through the breast moment rate as the definite unintentionally sidesplitting splatter highlights), gives the whole thing a snazzy giallo-ish bent (a couple of obvious red herrings, plenty of depraved sexuality, and so on), tosses in a sordid incest subplot for scuzzy good measure, and offers a satisfying smattering of yummy bare distaff skin. The lovely Olivia Pascal makes for an appealing damsel in distress, Alexander Waechter cuts an appropriately creepy figure as a grotesquely disfigured probable suspect, and Jasmin Losensky, Corinna Drews, and Ann-Beate Engelke all supply some mighty delicious eye candy. Juan Soler's competent cinematography boasts a few nifty stylistic flourishes as well as the expected prowling POV camera shots. Gerhard Heinz's wonky thudding'n'throbbing score and the hilariously dated groovy disco soundtrack hit the right-on funky spot. Franco has a small role as a psychiatrist. Granted, Franco fails to generate much in the way of either tension or spooky atmosphere, but fans of undemanding lowbrow slice'n'dice fare should still get a kick out of this seamy little number just the same.

Bloody Moon sees prolific sleaze director Jess Franco take advantage of the slasher movement that was becoming increasingly popular in the United States around the time that this film was released. Being a European film, the film has a sort of Giallo feel around it, although it's clear that the intention was to draw on the success of films like Halloween and Friday the 13th. Unsurprisingly, Jess Franco is in joint first place for most films on the Video Nasty list back in the eighties along with fellow Eurotrash luminary, Lucio Fulci. Bloody Moon appears on the Nasty list along with Devil Hunter and Women Behind Bars, and while the gore isn't as bloodthirsty as some slasher flicks; Franco still makes sure that the film deserves its place on the list. The plot follows a group of young girls being murdered at a Spanish school. The killer is revealed in the first scene, and he takes the form of a disfigured young man who has a strange lust for his sister! The film pretty much plays out in a familiar slasher fashion for most of its duration.While Jess Franco isn't the greatest director of all time (as shown here), one thing he has to be admired for is his ability to make his own entry into any popular sub-genre and make it sleazier than most. While Bloody Moon isn't exactly original, Jess Franco makes sure that his slasher is sicker than most by way of the incestuous relationship at the film's centre. Not only is Franco's serial killer a multiple murderer, he's also a disgusting pervert! The film is most infamous for the murder that features a young girl coming face to face with a buzzsaw, but that's not to say the other murders, featuring numerous murder weapons such as chainsaws and razorblades, are suitably nasty. The film has a rather large body count, and it's not hard to see why it got banned...although gorier slashers didn't suffer the wrath of Britain's intolerable censors. The cinematography is rather bland, and unlike many European horror movies (including some of Franco's own films), this film isn't very nice to look at, and this is matched by the uninspired musical score and some truly diabolical acting. To be honest, I can't really recommend this film, although there may be something here for slasher fans.

nothing new in this slasher movie from the 80's but every slasher fan should have this in their collection.lots of pretty girls getting killed in a variety of inventive and gruesome ways.i am not going to describe how the ladies get killed because other people on IMDb have already did that.there are quite a few good and gory graphic killings in bloody moon.so if you are like me and love gory slasher movies and not mainstream garbage like scream go and find this movie.just make sure you get a version that is uncut because there is nothing worse than buying a horror movie and all the gory killings have been cut out.so slasher fans go buy this now