Bloody Moon, also known as, The Bloody Moon Murders , is a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 horror film

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

 directed by Jesus Franco

Jesús Franco

Jesús "Jess" Franco is a Spanish film director, writer, cinematographer and actor. His career took off in 1961 with his cult classic The Awful Dr. Orloff, which received wide distribution in the United States and England...

 and released in 1981. This film can be considered a typical slasher film

Slasher film

A slasher film is a type of horror film typically involving a psychopathic killer stalking and killing a sequence of victims in a graphically violent manner, often with a cutting tool such as a knife or axe...

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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
  Olivia Pascal
  Olivia Pascal is a German actress.-Selected filmography:*Derrick - Season 11, Episode 5: "Tödlicher Ausweg" -External links:*...
  
   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
  Jesús Franco
  Jesús "Jess" Franco is a Spanish film director, writer, cinematographer and actor. His career took off in 1961 with his cult classic The Awful Dr. Orloff, which received wide distribution in the United States and England...
  
   as Doctor

Release

The film was made available on DVD

DVD

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 for the first time in the United States by Severin Films

Severin Films

-History:The label was created in 2006 in Los Angeles, other offices were founded in New York and London. The released films by Severin Films include: Hardware, Jesús Franco's Bloody Moon and Macumba Sexual, Walerian Borowczyk's Immortal Women, Gwendoline: Unrated Director's Cut, The Hairdresser's...

in 2008. This version restores all of the gore scenes, including the infamous circular saw, beheading scene.