Thought it was time for a bit of Tio Jess, and an authentic video nasty to boot (it was also banned in Germany until as recently as last year, per IMDB)… by my count I have now seen 19 Jess Franco films, which many would say is 19 too many; this was his contribution to the early slasher trend, and it was actually kind of instructive watching this after Terrifier cos I can see just how far low budget gore effects have come since Franco made this. The setpiece killing involves the “saw of death” of the German title, and it’s fucking ridiculous; I know Franco was working on minimal budgets even for that time, but still, Damien Leone could probably have whipped up something ten times more realistic for just spare change… anyway, the setting is a young women’s language school, where one of the resident staff is a deeply scarred (mentally and physically) young man who killed one of the students there five years earlier. Could he be responsible for the mysterious killings happening now that he’s back? Or is he just a rank red herring? Bloody Moon is shittily written and performed even by Franco standards, and the dubbing is awful even for that time; if you know enough about Franco’s films to imagine what a Franco slasher might be, you’d probably envisage something like this and be correct. Although Franco does inject a bit more interest into the formula with an incest sub-angle and a child getting killed along the way too (alas, there’s also what I feel certain was an actual animal killing too… ugh)… I will give the film points for casting Olivia Pascal, cos I have a thing for dark-eyed blondes however terribly they’re dubbed, but otherwise… you know, it’s a Jess Franco film, and you probably know what you’re getting into with it. Don’t really know what else to say.
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