Bloody Moon (1981) Die Säge des Todes (original title)

Director:

Jesús Franco

Writer:

Erich Tomek (screenplay)

Release Date:

27 March 1981 (West Germany)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

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

Plot:

Girls are killed at a language-school in Spain.

Plot Keywords:

School | Boarding School | Scissors | Party | Train

Cast

Olivia Pascal	...	Angela
Christoph Moosbrugger	...	Alvaro (as Christopher Brugger)
Nadja Gerganoff	...	Manuela
Alexander Waechter	...	Miguel
Jasmin Losensky	...	Inga
Corinna Drews	...	Laura (as Corinna Gillwald)
Ann-Beate Engelke	...	Eva
Peter Exacoustos	...	Antonio
Antonia García	...	Elvira
Beatriz Sancho Nieto	...	Rita
María Rubio	...	Countess Maria Gonzales
Otto Retzer	...	Bueno (as Otto W. Retzer)
Jesús Franco	...	Doctor
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Christina von Blanc	...	Woman in disco (uncredited)

Directed by
Jesús Franco

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Erich Tomek		screenplay (as Rayo Casablanca)

Produced by
Wolf C. Hartwig	....	producer
Otto Retzer	....	executive producer (as Otto W. Retzer)

Original Music by
Gerhard Heinz

Cinematography by
Juan Soler

Film Editing by
Karl Aulitzky
Christine Jank

Art Direction by
Klaus Haase

Costume Design by
Rolf Albrecht

Production Management
Otto Retzer	....	production supervisor (as Otto W. Retzer)
Erich Tomek	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Lina Romay	....	assistant director (as Rosa Almirail)

Special Effects by
Juan Ramón Molina	....	special effects (as Juan Ramon Molina)

Camera and Electrical Department
Fátima Ochando	....	assistant director of photography (as Fatima Ochanda)
Juan Soler	....	still photographer (as Hannes Furbringer)

Music Department
Frank Duval	....	composer: song "Love in the Shadow"

Other crew
Maite Mannchen	....	production coordinator

Production Companies

• Lisa-Film
• Metro Film
• Rapid Film

Distributors

• Residenz Film (1981) (West Germany) (theatrical)
• Inter-Light Video (1981) (UK) (video)
• Trans World Entertainment (TWE) (1985) (USA) (VHS)
• Video Instant Picture Company (VIPCO) (1993) (UK) (VHS)
• DMEG (2004) (Sweden) (video)
• Succéfilm AB (2004) (Sweden) (video)
• Severin Films (2008) (USA) (DVD)
• Gold Internacional Films
• Video Classics (????) (Australia) (VHS)

Also Known As:

"Die Säge des Todes" - West Germany (original title)
"The Saw of Death" - International (English title) (informal literal title)
"The Bloody Moon Murders" - Belgium (English title) (video title)

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

West Germany

Language:

German

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Argentina:18 | UK:18 | West Germany:(Banned) | Germany:BPjM Restricted | UK:X (original rating) | West Germany:18 (cut) (video rating) (1986) | West Germany:18 (theatrical release) (1981) (uncut) | Netherlands:16

Filming Locations:

Alicante, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain

Company:

Lisa-Film

Goofs:

Continuity: Angela is wearing a gray nightshirt when she finds Eva dead on her bed and immediately runs screaming out of the bungalow at which point Angela is suddenly wearing a sweater with a colorful forest pattern instead of the nightshirt.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape (2010) (V)

pretty good gory slasher

nothing new in this slasher movie from the 80's but every slasher fan should have this in their collection.lots of pretty girls getting killed in a variety of inventive and gruesome ways.i am not going to describe how the ladies get killed because other people on IMDb have already did that.there are quite a few good and gory graphic killings in bloody moon.so if you are like me and love gory slasher movies and not mainstream garbage like scream go and find this movie.just make sure you get a version that is uncut because there is nothing worse than buying a horror movie and all the gory killings have been cut out.so slasher fans go buy this now