Killer’s Moon
Reviewer: Tom Leins
Issue 106 August 2008
(1 votes, average: 6 out of 10)
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Review: Killer’s Moon is a bizarre but compelling cult horror flick from 1978. Directed by Brit sexploitation director Alan Birkinshaw, the movie sees the tranquillity of the Lake District torn apart by rampaging Droog-like mental inmates with a taste for depravity! Befitting the director’s bawdy film roots, the victims are a busload of stranded schoolgirls! The LSD-fuelled psychopaths have being subjected to a programme of dream therapy, which sees them turn increasingly demented as they become untethered from reality. What follows is a none-more-hokey slice of psychosexual sadism. The clumsy A Clockwork Orange references are ill-advised and the sitcom bawdiness is cringe-worthy, but the end product is strangely watchable. Special features include interviews and an audio commentary. It may be rubbish, but Killer’s Moon is an irresistible bad taste classic!
FILM: 5
EXTRAS: 6
DVD Info:
Certificate: 18
Starring: Nigel Gregory, Peter Spraggon
Directed By: Alan Birkinshaw, 1978
Distributor: Redemption Films
Audio: Mono
Visuals: 16:9 Anamorphic Widescreen
Running Time: 90mins
Price: £12.99
September 3rd, 2008 at 11:35 pm
How this film ever became a video nasty is beyond me, it is one of the most rubbish films i have spent time on. The so-called violence seems to try and copy clockwork orange, but at least that film handled it well. Killer’s Moon goes from bad to worse. Yes I agree it is strangely watchable but only once.