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Bloody Moon ()

Die Säge des Todes (original title)
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Girls are killed at a language-school in Spain.
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Angela
Christoph Moosbrugger ...
Alvaro
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Manuela
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Inga
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Laura (as Corinna Gillwald)
Ann-Beate Engelke ...
Eva
Peter Exacoustos ...
Antonio
María Rubio ...
Countess Maria Gonzales
Antonia García ...
Elvira
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Rita
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Miguel
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Dr. Domingo Aundos (uncredited)
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Bueno (uncredited)

Directed by

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Jesús Franco

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Erich Tomek ... (screenplay) (as Rayo Casablanca)

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

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Gerhard Heinz

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Juan Soler

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Karl Aulitzky
Christine Jank

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Klaus Haase

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Rolf Albrecht

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Lore Blasweiler ... makeup artist (as Lore Sottung)

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

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Lina Romay ... assistant director (as Rosa Almirail)

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Juan Ramón Molina ... special effects (as Juan Ramon Molina)

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

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

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Maite Mannchen ... production coordinator

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Plot Summary

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 aunt, 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 friends are killed one by one. One, while topless, is skewered from behind by a 12-inch knife that exits her right nipple. Another is coerced by a romantic masked Spaniard who insists on tying her up in an abandoned lumber mill (which according to her is "kinky," but OK) and is decapitated quite nicely with a large power saw, complete with squirting blood from her neck. A young boy is run over mid-section by a Mercedes. Another friend is strangled by smoldering fireplace tongs. There is also the real decapitation of a snake. When the girls start to turn up missing, nobody believes Angela that there's a killer on the loose. She had seen the corpse of one girl, and it was gone as soon as she went for help. Confused and scared, Angela finally looks for help from the people who run the school. Written by Sujit R. Varma

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Taglines Don't Panic... It only happens once in a... Bloody Moon See more »
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Also Known As
  • Colegialas violadas (Spain)
  • The Saw of Death (World-wide, English title)
  • The Bloody Moon Murders (Belgium, English title)
  • Bloody Moon (Canada, English title)
  • Bloody Moon (World-wide, English title)
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Trivia This movie was banned in the United Kingdom in the early 1980's after it was labeled a "Video Nasty." See more »
Goofs 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 »
Movie Connections Featured in Matador (1986). 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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