Bloody Moon

Bloody Moon
Directed by	Jesus Franco
Produced by	Wolf C. Hartwig
Written by	Rayo Casablanca
Starring	Olivia Pascal Christoph Moosbrugger
Music by	Gerhard Heinz
Cinematography	Juan Soler
Editing by	Karl Aulitzky Christine Jank
Distributed by	Gold Internacional Films Inter-Light Video
Release date(s)	March 27, 1981 (1981-03-27)
Running time	85 Mins
Country	Germany
Language	German

Bloody Moon, also known as, The Bloody Moon Murders (German: Die Säge des Todes, lit. "The Saw of Death"), is a German horror film directed by Jesus Franco and released in 1981. This film can be considered a typical slasher film.

Plot

Miguel, a young man with a horribly disfigured face, goes on a rampage at a masquerade party and rapes a girl. He then brutally hacks up the young woman with a pair of scissors. Miguel is institutionalized at a mental asylum for five years. Afterward, he is released into the care of his sister, Manuela. Along with their wheelchair-using mother, they operate a boarding school for young women, called Europe's International Youth-Club Boarding School of Languages, on the Spanish resort of Costa Del Sol. Miguel is intrigued by Angela, a long-haired brunette, whom he first saw on the train ride from the sanitarium. The creepy Miguel follows her around. Miguel meets with Manuela to request that they resume their incestuous relationship. She reminds him that it was this relationship that made him emotionally unstable five years earlier. She says they cannot because nobody understands them: "Only if we could get rid of everyone, then things could go back to the way they were." Then Angela's friends are killed one by one. One, while topless, is skewered from behind by a 12-inch knife that exits her right nipple. Another is coerced by a romantic masked Spaniard who insists on tying her up in an abandoned lumber mill (which according to her is "kinky,") and is decapitated with a large power saw, complete with squirting blood from her neck. A young boy is run over mid-section by a Mercedes. Another friend is strangled by smoldering fireplace tongs. There is also the real decapitation of a snake. When the girls start to turn up missing, nobody believes Angela that there's a killer on the loose. She had seen the corpse of one girl, and it was gone as soon as she went for help. Confused and scared, Angela finally looks for help from the people who run the school.

Cast

• Olivia Pascal as Angela
• Christoph Moosbrugger as Alvaro
• Nadja Gerganoff as Manuela
• Alexander Waechter as Miguel
• Jasmin Losensky as Inga
• Corinna Drews as Laura
• Ann-Beate Engelke as Eva
• Peter Exacoustos as Antonio
• Antonia García as Elvira
• Beatriz Sancho as Nieto
• María Rubio as Countess Maria Gonzales
• Otto Retzer as Bueno
• Jesus Franco as Doctor

Release

The film was made available on DVD for the first time in the United States by Severin Films in 2008.^[1] This version restores all of the gore scenes, including the infamous circular saw, beheading scene.^[2]

References

1. ^ "Bloody Moon (DVD)". severin-films.com. http://www.severin-films.com/2008/10/28/bloody-moon/. Retrieved 2011-04-18. 
2. ^ "Bloody Moon (DVD) review". digital-retribution.com. http://www.digital-retribution.com/reviews/dvd1/001.php. Retrieved 2011-04-18. 

External links

• Bloody Moon at the Internet Movie Database