This mediocre slasher packs thrills , chiller , extreme horror ,tension and lots of blood and gore for the grisly killings . It's on the aesthetic and body count of a psychotronic slasher, as the pic was extremely prohibited in some countries , in fact it was considered to be a Video Nasty in United Kingdom . The loathing gore and guts are astonishingly shown as mutilated human limbs , beaheading , slashing in cold blood and using all kinds of cutting instruments to carry out the horrible massacres , such as chainsaws , long knifes , electric cutting machines, among others . It deals with Miguel (Christoph Moosbrugger) , a young man with a horribly disfigured face, who is released from a mental asylum into the care of his sister, Manuela (Nadja Gerganoff) . Along with their wheelchair bound aunt (Maria Rubio) , they operate a boarding school for young woman, called Europe's International Youth-Club Boarding School of Languages, on the Spanish resort of Costa Del Sol. There arrives the young Angela (Olivia Pascal), but things go wrong when at the language-school some girls are being surprisingly killed.
The film stars un unknown cast , exception for Olivia Pascal who played some softcore movies ; it displays thrills , chills , cardboard horror , and lots of blood and gore for nauseating execution . Eerie Euro-horror to want in on the action and with a big influence in the Italian giallo if you put it in the hands of Jess Franco , you end up with this extreme Bloody Moon (1981) . The grisly , disturbing murders are extremely scary and really disgusting with abundant stabbing shots including beheading , slitting and mutilation in which a mysterious murderous makes an authentic slaughter with gruesome and bloody executions . At the end takes place an exciting denouement detailing the persona who exects the scary murders while the victims are massacred at the hands of the sinister and mysterious series killer . The film takes accent as suspense as well as terror with creepy use of images-shock and botcher edition.
This is a delirious motion picture made in the early 1980's , financed in little budget by Wolf C. Hartwig (who produced Sam Peckinpah's Cross of Iron) with nice cinematography by Juan Soler , lousily directed by Jess Frank without originality and following the ordinary Slasher trappings , being a flick attuned to mainstream audiences at the time . A disconcerting horror movie with no much interest and regularly made by Jesús Franco , including a lot of goofs , flaws , gaps and failures . He often used a lot of pseudonyms , among the aliases he used, apart from the names Jess Franco or Franco Manera, were Jess Frank, Robert Zimmerman, Frank Hollman, Clifford Brown, David Khune , Toni Falt, James P. Johnson, Charlie Christian, David Tough , among others. In many of the more than 180 films he's directed he has also worked as composer, writer, cinematographer and editor. Jesús's influence has been notable all over Europe . Jess was a Stajanovist, restless writer, producer, director who played and realized over 200 pictures. His career spans over 50 years with a few successes and lots of flops, making all . From his huge body of work we can deduce that Jesús Franco is one of the most restless directors of Spanish cinema and often releasing several titles at the same time. Many of his films have had problems in getting released, and others have been made directly for video. More than once his staunchest supporters have found his "new" films to contain much footage from one or more of his older films. Jesús Franco is a survivor in a time when most of his colleagues tried to please the government administration. He broke up with all that and got the independence he was seeking and getting , at times great eye for composition. He was a hard-working filmmaker, directing a lot of ridiculous movies. However, making some acceptable films , such as : ¨We are 18 years old¨, ¨Labios Rojos¨, ¨The awful Dr Orloff¨, ¨The Bloody Judge¨ , ¨Miss Muerte¨, ¨Eugénie¨ , ¨Count Dracula¨, ¨99 women¨, ¨Death Whistles the Blues¨, ¨Rififi in the City¨,¨Justine¨, ¨Paroxismus, ¨The Blood of Fumanchu¨, ¨Faceless¨ and a few others. This ¨Bloody Moon¨is only for Jess Frank enthusiasts and followers of banned films labeled as Video Nasties , resulting to be a grand stab fest that still ends up being closer to a giallo than intended.
