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Oh, boy. This is going to be interesting because Bloody Moon (or Die Säge des Todes in German, which translates to “The Saw of Death”) is one of those movies that doesn’t make a great deal of sense. This is a movie made by a Spanish director with a German name and mainly German cast, and in the style of an Italian horror movie. That kind of confusion is going to be indicative of what is to come.
I mean that sincerely. This is a movie that exists so that director Jesús Franco could do things like stab a woman through the nipple, saw a woman’s head off, and have an actress simulate sex sounds. There isn’t a lot here that makes cohesive sense beyond a set of loosely-held plot points that sort of go in the same direction.
We start with Miguel (Alexander Waechter), whose face is disfigured. He attempts to have sex with a girl at a Halloween party while wearing a mask. When the mask falls off and the girl freaks out (fair in any case because he’s not who she thought he was), he freaks out as well and kills her with a pair of scissors. For this crime, Miguel is thrown in an institution for five years and then released to the care of his sister Manuela (Nadja Gerganoff). Manuela operates a boarding school for young women. They live under the eye of their aunt María (Maria Rubio), who is an invalid and hates Manuela intensely.
Eventually, we’re going to meet Angela (Olivia Pascal), who will be our main character and who is on her way to the aforementioned school. We’re also going to meet Professor Alvaro (Christoph Moosbrugger), who is also new to the school. And now the deaths start, beginning with Maria. We’re also going to find out at this point that Manuela and Miguel are a little closer than might be societally acceptable. There’s a little bit of Targaryen or Cersei and Jaime Lannister in them.
Anyway, what starts to happen is that the girls at the school start dying off, but no one seems to realize it. This is despite the fact that at one point, one of the dead girls is literally hanging in someone’s closet. Anyway, Angela seems to be the target of a lot of this, and while we in the audience are shown Miguel over and over looking creepily at the women in the school, Angela is sure the culprit is Antonio (Peter Exacoustos), who works at the school.
I cannot stress enough that Bloody Moon very much appears to exist specifically so that certain scenes could be filmed. There is a scene where a woman is willingly tied down and then run under a saw that decapitates her. Why does this happen? Well, the girl in question is the one who pretends to have sex at one point. Did she think she was going to have sex? Was she that desperate when it’s made clear than Antonio is the sex beast of the school? Anyway, the director clearly wanted that girl’s head removed in that way. He also wanted a little kid to see that happen so that he could then have the killer run over the kid with a car. There’s no other reason for this and no way that scene otherwise makes sense.
That’s really all of the point of Bloody Moon. There are deaths that happen for a reason that eventually gets revealed to us and that actually does kind of make sense, but where the perpetrator makes such bizarre decisions that they beggar the imagination. This is endlessly nonsensical.
Why does Bloody Moon exist beyond this? Nudity. There’s a lot of frontal nudity. Lots of women wearing gauzy, see-through tops and a lot of pool lounging in bikini bottoms (Spongebob reference unintentional). In fact, this happens around Antonio, who is clearly willing to sex down anyone willing, which makes the whole “tie the girl up to saw off her head” scene make even less sense.
This movie is dumb. The nudity is not really that enjoyable, the killings are senseless, and the whole plot is stupid.
Why to watch Bloody Moon: Nudity?
Why not to watch: It’s incoherent in so many ways.
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