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Killer's Moon
UK 1978
produced by Alan Birkinshaw, Gordon Keymer for Rothernorth
directed by Alan Birkinshaw
starring Anthony Forrest, David Jackson, Tom Marshall, Georgina Kean, Nigel Gregory, Paul Rattee, Peter Spraggon, Jane Hayden, Alison Elliott, Joanne Good, Layne Lester, Lisa Vanderpump, Christina Jones, Lynne Morgan, Jean Reeve, Elizabeth Counsell, Charles Stewart, Edwina Wray, Hilda Braid, Chubby Oates, Hugh Ross, Graham Rowe, James Kerry, Carol Binstead
screenplay by Alan Birkinshaw, additional dialogue by Fay Weldon, music by John Shakespeare, Derek Warne
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Four psychopaths (David Jackson, Nigel Gregory, Paul Rattee, Peter
Spraggon) have escaped a nearby asylum, thinking they are in a dream (part
of their therapy) where they are supposed to do anything they want, and
now they find a hotel full of teen-aged choir girls - and since they think
they are supposed to anyways, they rape and murder all they want. The
girls do their best to defend themselves against these assailants, but one
after the other, they - as well as their teachers - fall victim to them,
and it's up to two campers (Anthony Forrest, Tom Marshall) to save them
... not that they would do too good a job (though in all fairness, they
haven't asked for the job either), as in the end, they only save a couple
of girls, but at least they got rid of the killers as well - with the help
of the girls, actually.
Early British slasher that on one hand
totally follows the established slasher formula and even exceeds most of
its American counterparts concerning sleaze, on the other hand, it tries
to be not just another genre movie, it's full of dry humour, macabre
situations and even a shot of satire and irony, and Alan Birkinshaw's
rather old-fashioned directorial effort is a pleasant change from the
usually very impersonal, bland direction your average slasher tends to
suffer from. All that said, I wouldn't call Killer's Moon a classic
in the conventional sense of the word, yet a shocker with cult potential.
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