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Die Säge des Todes (1981)

BPjM Restricted | | Horror | 27 March 1981 (West Germany)
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Girls are killed at a language-school in Spain.

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Cast

Cast overview:
Olivia Pascal ...
Angela
Christoph Moosbrugger ...
Alvaro
Nadja Gerganoff ...
Manuela
Jasmin Losensky ...
Inga
Corinna Drews ...
Laura (as Corinna Gillwald)
Ann-Beate Engelke ...
Eva
Peter Exacoustos ...
Antonio
María Rubio ...
Countess Maria Gonzales
Antonia García ...
Elvira
Beatriz Sancho Nieto ...
Rita
Alexander Waechter ...
Miguel
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Storyline

Miguel, a young man with a horribly disfigured face, goes on a rampage at a masquerade party and rapes a girl. He then brutally hacks up the young woman with a pair of scissors. Miguel is institutionalized at a mental asylum for five years. Afterward, he is released into the care of his sister, Manuela. Along with their wheelchair bound mother, they operate a boarding school for young woman, called Europe's International Youth-Club Boarding School of Languages, on the Spanish resort of Costa Del Sol. Miguel is intrigued by Angela, a long-haired brunette, whom he first saw on the train ride from the sanitarium. The creepy Miguel follows her around. Miguel meets with Manuela to request that they resume their incestuous relationship. She reminds him that it was this relationship that made him emotionally unstable five years earlier. She says they cannot because nobody understands them: "Only if we could get rid of everyone, then things could go back to the way they were." Then Angela's ... Written by Sujit R. Varma

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Don't Panic... It only happens once in a... Bloody Moon

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Also Known As:

Bloody Moon  »

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ESP 23,130,776 (Spain)
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Trivia

Jesús Franco was initially told by the producers that Pink Floyd was going to do the score for this film. See more »

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The knife stabbed into Eva's back has its blade tip emerge through her left nipple. When Eva's corpse is later shown hanging in Inga's wardrobe, her left nipple is untouched and the blade tip is protruding from her lower sternum. See more »

Quotes

Manuela: No, Miguel. I'm your sister. We shouldn't start again. Don't you see that people wouldn't let us love each other. It's that... don't you see... it's everybody that's around us, staring at us and judging us.
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Manuela: I'm so afraid. Miguel, I'm terribly frightened. If we could just get rid of everyone around us. Then things could be as they were.
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Great slasher film.
1 October 2003 | by (Chyby, Poland) – See all my reviews

"Bloody Moon" is a great slasher film from the master of exploitation Jesus Franco.The plot is obviously inspired by "Halloween" and "Friday the 13th".The acting is pretty average,but there is plenty of gore to satisfy fans of splatter.There is for example very bloody power saw decapitation plus some other killings which involve chainsaws,razorblades and knives.The music score is pretty appalling and the film's theme tune is incredibly annoying.Overall,the film is moderately entertaining,so if you're a Franco fan give this one a look. Here is the plot:"Bloody Moon" takes place in a Spanish language school,where pretty female students are murdered by an unidentified stalker in a variety of grisly ways.


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