Bloodmoon

Apparently when this horror film was released theatrically in Australia, it included a "Fright Break", a short intermission which gave audiences a chance to walk a yellow line to the cinema's exit if the film was too frightening, giving those who took the so-called "Chicken Walk" to the exits their money back.

I’d say a lot of people would have walked that line. Not because the film was scary but because it was so unremittingly lame. If you have a taste for cheesy low-budget late 80s horror Bloodmoon is essential viewing. In every department it is wonderfully horrible with a ham-fisted script, largely inexperienced actors and a technical team that appear to have set the bar at the let's-get-this-over-with setting.

The story involves the disappearance of students from neighbouring boys’ and girls’ boarding colleges (the location is not specified but film was shot on the Gold Coast). Director Mills leaps into the tackiness by setting the opening sequence in the girls’ showers, giving him his first opportunity to display young female breasts. For a goodly amount of time the story involves the who-dunnit style bloody murdering of sexually active teens but then it reveals all with an account of the sexually-voracious headmistress and her sexually-humiliated husband, the former played with beady-eyed enthusiasm by Christine Amor, the latter with shuffling improbability by Leon Lissek.

Director Alec Mills, who had worked as a camera operator on various Bond films only helmed one other film, Dead Sleep, with Linda Blair, that was released in 1992.

DVD Extras: None

Available from: Madman

 

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