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Compared to other serial killer stories, this one is above average ; when "Friday the thirteenth "and stuff like that consists of killing teenagers one by one, teenagers we hardly know before they get slain.

Here,there is a decent screenplay and chiefly , the screenwriters did create characters ;even though we guess who the killer is long before the end ,his behavior makes sense .If the youngsters are rather bland and conventional, the adult characters have some substance : the nun (the ending sees her play the part of the sister of "vertigo" ), the nymphomaniac headmistress and her impotent husband,the biology teacher , the policeman .

The rivalry between the wealthy students who" will become doctors and lawyers and the prole ones" is not fully exploited and it's too bad;but good scenes such as the maleficent relationship between the teacher and his wife, the two girls who try to see the tests before the exam so as to get only As make up for it.

Pretty good entertainment in this Australian thriller.

Those were the days... Where this kind of slashers were a reason for staying home on a Friday night when being 12 or 13 years old.

I remember this movie airing on USA NETWORK almost every 6 months, but it wasn't until the 10th time it aired that I decided to watch it. The first 10 minutes are kind of creepy, then the movie gets boring until the expected end. The killer is no way scary, and even the plenty of gore and hot girls doesn't help "BLOODMOON" being a slasher to be remembered.

Just for die hard fans of the genre.

By reputation "Bloodmoon" doesn't seem to stand up so well, nonetheless it just seemed to draw me in (well captivating poster artwork helps a lot too) and since it just got a local DVD release (thanks to the 2008 documentary "Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!") it was easy to get a hold of. It turned out to be competently stylish, but a generically penned (if sexually charged) Aussie slasher that after the opening sequence it seems to find itself in soapy TV material. This aspect is rather distracting and stodgy, before it finally goes on to build a head of steam for the last half hour of outrageous acts and jarring suspense. While not particularly successful as a whole, as it can be sloppy it still kept me watching. Something about the choice of locations constructs an effective small coastal town atmosphere (very similar to that of 1981 quirky Australian slasher "Dead Kids") and it's lit with moody visual shadings by director Alec Mills. The stalk and slash scenes are actually well executed and framed, especially in the latter half with a couple twisted acts of uncontrollable violence… but when the focus (during some long periods) is on the dramas / antics of the locals and a group of neighbouring boarding schools (girls and boys -- who are on heat with constant flashes of female nudity) the suspense is truly forgotten about and its kept grounded with an authentic flavour but the cheesy handling doesn't help and so did the lack of any development of recurring characters / side-stories. The patchy story doesn't really offer any surprises (well maybe one moment --- a death towards the end) and the revelation of the killer midway though shouldn't really come as a surprise. Actually I thought it was better off unmasking the killer, because it was obvious but their choice of weapon a piece of barb wire would leave an unpleasant mark. The performances are surefooted with the likes of Christine Amor (immensely dominating), Leon Lissek (unusually picture-perfect), Ian Williams and Helen Thomson. Australian music composer Brian May has crafted out some stunning scores, but on this occasion it isn't one of his best in what is a vibrant, but heavy-handed arrangement. When it was being ominous it worked, but for those softer and playful cues it doesn't come off. It just lacked the fineness. Nothing sensational, but a better than labelled slasher.

Teenagers on a college campus are brutally murdered while doing the dirty. This starts out as a typical crap 80s slasher snoozer. For the first 40 minutes I kept thinking to myself "Wow, the late 80s/early 90s was an even WORSE time for style and horror in Australia than it was in the US!" Teenagers with side-ponies stripping out of their stonewash jeans are everywhere! The theme of this slasher seems to be a killer with a circular barbed wire thingie that he uses to choke, causing his victims to see a, um, bloodmoon? I have no idea. What I DO know is that about halfway through, this movie turns from a below-average slasher, to a fabulously trashy episode of "Dynasty Down Under," thanks to the camped-out performance by the hilarious Christine Amor (who was likewise the only good thing about the Linda Blair crapfest "Dead Silence". Oh yeah, be careful because most reviews (and even the Netflix envelope) feature spoilers, but it doesn't really matter because the movie is only worth watching for the soap operatics in the second half.

Under-rated but far from masterpiece thriller hits the ozploitation mark bang on the head with plenty of T&A early into the movie and some ugly kills but the horror element quickly dies off once the killer is revealed.

Since the killer isn't a mystery for most of the movie it becomes more of a movie where the audience must watch the characters work out who the killer is, how serious the problem is on their hands then how much luck comes into the solution at the movies conclusion.

So my only gripe with this movie is the introduction of characters at the start of the movie that play no part at all later. This isn't how character development really works in my opinion. Apart from that Bloodmoon was a reasonably enjoyable thriller with very minimal amounts of horror probably due to the self censorship (avoiding an R rating). This seems to me to be unfortunate unless you can get the uncut version which I would have liked and highly recommend for horror movie buffs like myself.

Definitely a must see for fans of rare Australian horror's and/or 80's horror movies.

Basically this is a horror movie done Australian style. I can tell you it doesn't add up to Wolf Creek. It's your basic whodunit serial killer type story. There's naked Australian girls and an average, run of the mill storyline as well. I would recommend this only to completest of the genre. I give it a 4 which is high. I guess the naked Australian girls is what made me take it up a few notches... Since I'm a collector of 80s horror movies I ended up having to give this a viddie. Not that I regret it or anything but I don't see myself pulling this one off the shelf again anytime soon. But still not all that bad for a one time view...

It's sad this film hasn't seen more publicity, it's a great watch and just shows the Aussies do it better every time! Any film with Christine Amor has to be good and Leon Lissek is suitable weird in an offbeat role of the school teacher. I am now the proud owner of an authentic film script and it is my favourite piece of film memorabilia...if you ever see this film, watch it, you'll be pleasantly surprised. It lulls you into a false sense of security, you think you've seen it all before, then does the unexpected. Watch it!

In the seaside town of Cooper's Bay, the students of Winchester Boys School are naturally drawn to the pupils of a nearby Catholic school for girls. They're not the only ones: a psycho lurks in the woods that separate the schools, lured by the thrill of the kill.

Aussie slasher Bloodmoon kicks off in shamelessly lurid fashion with a changing room full of barely legal schoolgirls in the buff, followed by a double murder, the young victims throttled with a barbed wire garotte, their eyes gouged out and fingers removed before being unceremoniously buried in the woods.

With such a gleefully trashy start, one might expect a real sleazy and splattery Ozploitation treat, but while there is still plenty of nudity to come, and a couple more mean-spirited murders (including a victim having her face repeatedly bashed into a desk!), the film doesn't live up to its early promise, becoming mired in a pedestrian plot that involves rivalry between social classes and a teen romance between pretty rich Catholic girl Mary (Helen Thomson) and 'townie' Kevin (Ian Williams).

The killer is suitably deranged (belittled by his wife and sexually frustrated, he takes out his pent up aggression on randy teens), the early-'90s trappings provide a few giggles (the hairstyles are particularly awful), and the rock band Vice, who play at the Winchester high school dance, are awesome, but in the end I felt just a tad disappointed by a plot that veers away from the horror just a touch too much.

Flaskback to 1990 at the Wollongong Town Cinemas where this movie being shown. You can notice some scenes were badly out to get the M rating for starters and the film felt like watching a "Home & Away" episode coz the performances were hammy as hell! The first three quarters of film were borring to boot with a borring story and without any horror to be seen... And then came on FRIGHT BREAK where the audience had the chance to leave this borrfest and have your money refunded by going to Chickens Corner located in the foyer. You had about 30 seconds with snippets of what's is promised to be a intense horror experience (which doesn't happen anyway). Well it got a bit more gory without suspense and ended really weirdly which ended the audience booing the film off. This film bombed badly in Australia and little wonder why

Not to be confused with Bloody Moon, Jesus Franco's gore feast of 1980; this Australian lensed slasher imitates the popular ‘killer on campus' plotline that's so frequently used by its US counterparts. It's fairly amusing just how much Alec Mills tries to make this as American as he possibly can, but thankfully he refrains from asking the cast to perform unconvincing accents. As a matter of fact, the characters that are actually supposed to be from the States still speak in flawless Aus! Hmmm!

In the small town of Coopers Bay, there are two Hi-schools situated right next door to each other. There's Winchester, an all boys comprehensive and St Elizabeth's, a girl's only Catholic faculty. They are separated by woodland where pupils from both can meet and engage in things that they'd rather their teachers didn't witness! An unseen killer begins murdering the youngsters as they fornicate, strangling them with a length of barbed wire before removing their eyes and burying them under the soil. Mary, the daughter of a Hollywood movie actress, becomes involved when the killer targets her and Kevin, her boyfriend. But who is this twisted psychopath and why does he want to kill all the kids?

Blood Moon opens with a terrific score courtesy of Brian May and some superb cinematography. The dense woods in which the kids are pursued is brilliantly lighted and I was immediately rather impressed by the general production. After a couple of murders, were introduced to a predictable troupe of troublesome teens and our obvious final girl. There's an interesting subplot that sprouts as one of the local poor kids falls for Mary, the daughter of an actress. The rich Winchester boys hate the local working class, so it's almost like a homage to Romeo and Juliet or West side story but without the Rock and Roll (Instead we get ‘reach for the earplugs' Heavy Metal!). Shakespeare and the slasher genre, what a combination! I bet the poor author would turn in his grave!

There's one really gruesome – if not graphic – murder, involving a desk, a young girl's head and a deranged killer! But aside from that, there's hardly any gore and most of the killings are left to our imagination (boo!). The performances are fairly poor throughout, although Leon Lissek gives a decidedly nasty portrayal. Although it mostly keeps things directly by the book, there are a few twists that you probably won't guess and we also get some background on the reasons for the killer's insanity.

British born Alec Mills' lackadaisical direction left a lot to be desired and he failed to generate as much suspense as was needed. He's better when he works as a camera man as he did on Return of the jedi and various James Bond movies through the seventies and eighties. It's a fairly slow-moving story, but when the killer is revealed things begin to perk up right up until it ends rather suddenly leaving one or two unanswered questions. Like what happened to Kevin? Did he survive? Even though the bodies start piling up toward the finale, the story certainly could have benefited from a few more excursions into the well-lighted woodland with the killer and his length of deadly barbed wire. As it stands, there was too little horror and an excessive amount of teen frolics that didn't really do the movie any favours.

You can ignore most of the bad reviews that slate Blood Moon; it really isn't all that bad. Its just that its not particularly memorable, the sort of film that you'll watch once and forget about immediately after. Perfect for some late-night slicing shenanigans on the TV, but hardly worth the effort of hunting down. As far as Australian slashers go, it manages not to feel as cack-handed as Houseboat Horror, To Become One or the over-rated Cut, but then that's still not much of a worthy compliment. Oh and make sure to place them earplugs back in as soon as you see the end credits. The last songs a killer: `Blood moon is rising, stay home tonight' and `Blood Moon arising over building and over hill, take care if you will!' You get the picture!

Is this for real? It's an embarrassment of an Aussie film with shocking acting and worse photography. I am sure I know some of the actors but it wouldn't surprise me if they're not around now because of this thing called a movie. Typical slasher USA knock off with accentuated Aussie twang and laughable scenarios, I have to contemplate whether there's anything good about it. Maybe the water attack on the 'aholes' or the inevitable Aussie bush sex scene ruined by intrusive footsteps on crackling leaves or, wait, oh no, watch out! More than one young couple out there it seems. I'm still thinking..... one must consider and respect the importance of mass over the teen desires of true love and a peck on the cheek. Nothing need about this schlocker.

It goes as they say. So no pun intended - if you watch one slasher, you have seen them all. Well that is not entirely true, but I reckon the original slashers do share quite the similar DNA to say the least. This is not different, with quite the predictable story, maybe some shock twist (but not for most) ... it does have good effects for sure.

So depending on what you expect, what you want to see, you will either be fully satisfied or might be a bit underwhelmed. The acting is ok too, considering the genre this plays in. It has not aged too well in some regards, but the video (cinematography) overall looked quite good (don't expect anything fancy of course). I did not have any music theme stuck in my head, but I did not expect to have another Halloween theme ... so there is that. A fun little slasher that could ... or can.

Bloodmoon is an Aussie slasher movie, these were hugely popular in the late 1970's to the mid 80's but by 1990 the genre had all but run out of steam (or should that be blood!?). The plot centres around a Catholic boarding school for girls and a psycho who is killing courting couples engaged in night time sex at a nearby lovers' lane. The maniac's choice of murder is to garrote using barbered wire, sometimes followed by the gouging out of victims' eyeballs. The killings are quite brutal and bloody, they also include stabbing and one girl has her head smashed on a desk until she is dead. Within minutes we are treated to an all girl communal shower scene with some full frontal nudity, several sex scenes throughout the film also provide more nudity. The school is run by Head Teacher Virginia Sheffield (played by the very attractive Christine Amor), who likes to bed male students from a nearby boys' school on her days off, and her very creepy husband and science teacher Myles (Leon Lissek). Without giving anything away it is obvious who the killer is and their identity is revealed long before the end. Between moments of sex and horror the rest of the movie feels more like an Australian soap, filmed on the Gold Coast. One of the main characters is Kevin, he was played by Ian Williams who appeared in Aussie soap opera "Neighbours" for a couple of years. Despite being released in 1990 the film does have a cheesy mid-80's look, in particular a prom night scene that features a big haired soft rock band and some very corny dancing. Bloodmoon ticks all of the slasher movie boxes, it's not great but I have now enjoyed watching it twice now and will no doubt give it another viewing in the future.

In my humble opinion given that we don't or can't spend the millions they do in the US, this flick is Aussie and I enjoyed it. Loved the 1988 VN Commodore Police car and the HQ Holden and all Aussie footprints.

I was pleasantly surprised by the 3 or 4 naked sex scenes which are always appreciated by us who love the naked human form subject to being over 18 I must add.

I agree with all previous positive opinions and comments by previous critics and commend them for seeing past the few corny bits and scenes that were not so memorable. The nay sayers are reminded that this production was not afforded the outrageous billions spent on other very poor movies such as APOCALYPSE and SILENCE OF THE LAMBS et al.

Best of all; this movie doesn't insult you with time wasted watching a bad movie that makes you wince with regret wishing you never started watching it.

Australian horrors/thrillers are notoriously bad and this one is not an exception.

Slow tempo, no surprises or twist, horrendous camera work and dialogue.

Worst of all though is casting. Why hire 47-year-old-looking men as high-school students.

Overall, do yourself a favor and skip thia and any other Australian horror/thriller.

Bloodmoon (1990)

* (out of 4)

Ozploitation about a serial killer going around an all girls Catholic school where he wraps a piece of barbed wire around the victim's necks. BLOODMOON is one of those films that seemed to build its reputation on hype and then when people actually saw the picture they realized that there really wasn't much to it. The idea of barbed wire being wrapped around someone's neck makes one think that you're about to view something graphic but that's certainly not the case. It almost seems as if the filmmakers watched a few American slashers and decided to copy them. It also seems like they read some negative reviews to stuff like Friday THE 13TH that put the films down for not having any sort of character development. It further seems that the filmmakers wanted to "get it right" so we're given non-stop scenes with so-called character development. There's no other way to put it but this movie is extremely bad from start to finish. There's an incredibly drawn out and downright boring dance sequence, which seems to run as long as the wedding sequence from THE GODFATHER. This scene just keeps going on and on and when it's over you realize that there wasn't a need for it. No need for it is something that most of these scenes here have going for them. The entire picture just drags along and at times you wonder if the filmmakers forgot they were making a horror film. The first hour drags by so poorly that most will probably hit the eject button. The majority of the death scenes take place off camera so we're not given too much there. What little blood there is comes from scenes showing the victim's missing their eyes. The film does offer up quite a bit of nudity but this here isn't enough to save the picture. Fans of the genre will probably be curious about this one due to its hyped reputation but sadly the film itself is quite poor and well worth skipping.