A badly scarred maniac is stalking a beach side school murdering the women learning there. Who is he? Why is he doing these dastardly deeds? Why isn't anyone stopping him? Why is his sister so goddamned creepy?
Number 8 on the DPP 39 list of Video nasties is one of the worst. Bloody Moon, courtesy of Spanish horror auteur Jess Franco is a film with no redeeming features, it's killing are boring, it's cast is awful and it's effects are among the worst of all the nasties. It's charmless, scareless, badly shot, badly written, badly directed, has real life animal cruelty in it ( A snake gets decapitated. This is the first of the nasties on the list to feature real animal death but sadly not the last) and it rips off far better films, some scenes in their entirety. Dull, unoriginal and shite. The holy trinity of a bad video nasty.
And there's no bloody moon in it either!!
It's annoying because this could have been good. It's a murder mystery (where we know all the killers) set in a language school on the Costa Del Sol. It's full of campy whip zooms and it's laced in a lovely eurotrashy atmosphere but it's so badly made none of this has any impact. Jess Franco might have a style of his own but that doesn't mean he's a good director. Imagine this in the hands of Dario Argento for example, a director known for the love and attention he put into his films. 3 years before this was released he made Suspiria, a horror set in a ballet school and look at the classic that turned out to be. Imagine this one steeped in primary colours and soundtracked by Goblin. Gaaahhh I hate wasted potential when it comes to film.
Ok. Enough words have been wasted on this one.
Would I recommend it to anyone? Only nasty completists and then I'd still feel bad about it.
Did it deserve to be on the nasty list? Not a chance. Friday The 13th was released in the year before and is far more violent and it's effects far more realistic and that got by unscathed. That one even had a real life snake chopped up too but you never hear anyone complain about that.
What's next? The Burning is next. The Burning is far better than this shit.
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