Bloody Moon

Cheap, exploitive crap -- the stuff Jess Franco is all about. Bloody Moon is an Italian movie, that's dubbed really, really badly, in English, with an annoying soundtrack. That really matters little however, because it's all about about the cheap thrills -- a good deal of nudity and great deal of screams and bloody gore.

The plot -- a horribly scarred heir to a fortune is released from psychiatric treatment after committing a murder five years previous. He is released to his sister's custody at an all-girls Spanish school. Then the killing starts. The brother appears to be up to his old tricks, as one by one, the girls perish in some gruesome ways. I'll spare the details. Franco is true to form with Bloody Moon. There are screams -- people running around for no reason -- and an absolute lack of common sense in the characters. The one redeeming quality in the plot however, is the end. It turns out that just about everybody is a killer, and there are the usual motives: money and love. I won't give the ending away. If you catch this on late-night TV, you're probably going to see the heavily cut version -- to really appreciate the sleaze, you have to see it uncut.