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CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

acidburn-10 It's always fun unearthing obscure slashers, especially British ones, there are quite a few gems out there, but amongst them is also a load of crap that deserves to be buried. "Killer's Moon" however falls somewhere in-between, it's not a terrible movie by any means, there are hints of greatness and potential in there, but it's just wedged between mediocrity.The storyline has four escaped mental patients who under the influence of LSD roam the English country side and comes across a bus load of school girls stranded at a hotel in the middle of nowhere.The first half of the movie is quite subdued and does well at keeping the mental patients mysterious, by not showing them, instead showing what they've done (especially to the dog), which was very disturbing and upsetting but it did keep the viewer intrigued and then when they do finally show their faces as they enter the hotel, it is quite terrifying and exciting. The acts of rape and violence are quite unsettling to watch, but sadly none of the school girls standout, as none of them are concentrated on long enough for me or any-one to care about, to be honest I couldn't even remember any of their names. Then of course there's characters that disappears for such long lengths of time, that by the time you do see them, well they are just forgotten about and of course what did happen to the games-keeper, he just seemed to vanish and also the hotel owner (who does turn up at the end) like an after thought, but when did that happen.All in all "Killer's Moon" is not a bad movie, but not that great either and if you're into this sort of movie, well let's just say there are much better out there.

Rich Wright A coachload of schoolgirls on a tour of Britain singing choir songs has to make an emergency stop in the middle of nowhere because their vehicle has broken down. There are four escaped mental patients on the loose, who have been hypnotised into thinking everything they do is a dream.. allowing them to fulfill their darkest fantasies. Here's a newsflash: Their paths cross at some point. Luckily, they have a three legged dog on their side, and two blokes camped on the moors come to their aid. I don't think much of the ladies night attire, though...Fay Weldon did some work on the script of this slasher, which later she claimed was a 'terrible mistake' as her written dialogue turned it into a cult film. Pardon me for taking the wind out of your sails Ms Weldon, but I didn't hear anything remotely witty or sparkling during the course of the film. What did catch my ear was loads of verbal diarrhea from our resident quartet of on-the-run loonies. Who ever thought insanity could be so... dreary?And to think, it all starts off decently enough, with a nice set-up to provide the template for a satisfactory horror. Then, the weirdos show up, prancing around as if trying out for cabaret, spouting their absolute drivel... and we can't take them seriously. Whatever mood the director tried to establish is more-or-less ruined by these four walking bad jokes. They're not frightening in any way, just bloody annoying. After listening to them for minutes on end, death would almost be a mercy. 4/10

Michael_Elliott Killer's Moon (1978) * 1/2 (out of 4) I had never heard of this film before picking up a copy of Video Watchdog where this film was mentioned during a segment on THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT and those films that ripped it off. I found the comparison to the Wes Craven film to be a bit far-fetched as it appears this movie basically wants to be an exploitation version of Stanley Kubrick's A CLOCKWORK ORANGE. The story is pretty generic as a bus load of girls are left alone all night in a creepy house after their bus breaks down. Around the same time four nuts from a mental asylum escape and plan on torturing and raping the girls because they think they're in a dream and none of the bad stuff they're going to do will actually happen. This British film is so dry and boring that it's a wonder anyone was able to stay awake until the end of the flick. For the life of me I can't understand certain British movies that are clearly aiming at an exploitation crowd yet they do nothing but fill the film with countless dialogue scenes that add up to nothing and their only purpose it seems is to expand the running time. We get a 90-minute movie but the dialogue takes up at least forty-minutes and everything else just doesn't have enough energy to make up for it. There are a couple murder sequences but the special effects are mixed at best. There's an axe to the head which looks decent and I thought it was effectively done as it happens out of no where and the movie doesn't really give you time to expect it so this was a plus. Another scene has a body part getting sliced and it looks quite generic. Other deaths include a shotgun blast and a cat who gets it tail cut off. The performances range from fair to poor and it's easy to see that most are wishing they were somewhere else. The actors playing the nuts aren't nearly effective enough because it's hard to be frightened of them as the performances never make them very menacing. Another problem is with some of the adult characters who just do one stupid thing after another including one lady who decides to rehears some music after a couple of the girls go missing. I think some of the dumbest moments happens with a group of people "living" in a tent. The tent is obviously rather small but the scenes inside of it are clearly being shot in a much larger space and the way it's lit just makes it look silly. KILLER'S MOON is a bland genre film that doesn't have very much going for it but at least the three-legged dog gives a good performance.

Colin Keltie Now come on. Killer's Moon occupies a special spot in my heart for a number of reasons. Firstly, I was ten years old when it came out, and being mad for the horror flick, I remember wishing I was just that little bit bigger: big enough to blag my way into an "X" so I could see for myself what all this lurid stuff was really about! Happily, being a glandular freak, it wasn't too much longer before I was able to enjoy an illicit euroslash treat down the local fleapit whilst supposedly going to see "Empire Strikes Back". Hah! So years later I've caught up with Killer's Moon (around about 1985 as it goes) and y'know what? It has never disappointed me since. It's got its charming little flaws: so what? So it's not a highly polished, taught, edge-of-the-seat number: so what? The Hollywood machine, in the years since 1978, has learned to squeeze out dozens of highly polished, taught, edge-of-the-seat numbers - most of which are excrement. You tell me in all honesty that "The Ring 2" or "Cursed" are better efforts than Killer's Moon and I'll eat the dog's remaining legs.What Killer's Moon does for me is takes me back to reading 2000ad, watching "Crown Court" and catching trailers for "Food of the Gods/Squirm (from Friday)" and wishing I was grown up enough to see them. Now I am grown up enough to see them, they are every bit as good as I expected.So, away with your effete whining. Honestly, some of you moan it's sick, others moan it's not graphic enough, others moan that it's inept. What it's got is a lot of heart and soul (and half naked ladies). Killer's Moon is the "Eddie the Eagle" of genre cinema: you kind of know it's rubbish, but it leaves you with a warm glow, cheering it on.Killer's Moon will always make my top five, and I'm never wrong about anything, so put that in your collective pipes and smoke it!