Bloody Moon
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| Directed by | Jesús Franco Manera |
| Produced by | Wolf C. Hartwig |
| Screenplay by | Erich Tomek |
| Starring | Olivia Pascal |
| Music by | Gerhard Heinz |
| Edited by | Karl Aulitzky |
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West Germany
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Bloody Moon (German: Die Säge des Todes, also known as The Bloody Moon Murders) is a 1981 slasher film directed by Jesús Franco.
It is one of the infamous "Video Nasties" to be banned in the United Kingdom in the early 1980s.
Miguel, a young man with a horribly disfigured face, attempts to trick a girl into sex by putting a mask on and pretending to be her boyfriend. When she unmasks him, he brutally stabs the young woman with a pair of scissors. After the crimes, Miguel is institutionalized at a mental asylum for five years. When his sentence is finished, he is released into the care of his sister, Manuela. Along with their invalid aunt and countess Maria Gonzales, his incestuous sister Manuela operates a boarding school for young women called Europe's International Youth-Club Boarding School of Languages, on the Spanish resort of Costa Del Sol.
When Miguel rides the train ride from the sanitarium, he spots long-haired brunette woman named Angela. Meanwhile, professor Alvaro arrives at the school to visit Manuela, in which Maria states that she is being plotting against and that Manuela only wants money. That night, Maria lies in bed before she is burned to death with a torch. Angela arrives at the school later than her friends, and stays in the room where the girl was killed by Miguel. While wiping the bathroom mirror, she sees Miguel reflected before running outside, where the man follows her. She is then cared by her friend Inga, and the two go to visit Laura, Eva, and the gardener Antonio. Miguel goes to see his sister, and he proclaims his love to Manuela; the two kiss and touch. Manuela stops him, reminding him of the incident years earlier and citing that nobody understands them.
After a night at the disco, Antonio walks Angela home and reads in bed. While the killer sneaks inside the room, Eva appears at her window and asks to borrow a pullover. While Eva changes, the killer attacks and pierces a long knife into her back. Despite the body found Eva and alerts Antonio, the corpse soon disappears. The next day in the Spanish class that Alvaro teaches, the class is listening to tapes of Spanish dialect. On Angela's tape, the voice suddenly changes and threatens to cut her with a hacksaw. She screams when she sees Miguel at the window, but disappears when Alvaro returns and the tape resumes back to its lessons. After finding bloody clothing at Eva's place, Angela sees Antonio arguing with Manuela before a boulder rolls down a hill and nearly kills Angela. While Manuela notices one of her snakes is missing, Angela asks around for Eva, before seeing Antonio killing a snake with garden shears, and runs. While Antonio tries to stop her, Alvaro appears and tells her to stop bothering his students.
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