Killer's Moon

UK 1978
produced by
Alan Birkinshaw, Gordon Keymer for Rothernorth
directed by Alan Birkinshaw
starring Anthony Forrest, David Jackson, Tom Marshall, Georgina Kean, Nigel Gregory, Paul Rattee, Peter Spraggon, Jane Hayden, Alison Elliott, Joanne Good, Layne Lester, Lisa Vanderpump, Christina Jones, Lynne Morgan, Jean Reeve, Elizabeth Counsell, Charles Stewart, Edwina Wray, Hilda Braid, Chubby Oates, Hugh Ross, Graham Rowe, James Kerry, Carol Binstead
screenplay by Alan Birkinshaw, additional dialogue by Fay Weldon, music by John Shakespeare, Derek Warne

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Four psychopaths (David Jackson, Nigel Gregory, Paul Rattee, Peter Spraggon) have escaped a nearby asylum, thinking they are in a dream (part of their therapy) where they are supposed to do anything they want, and now they find a hotel full of teen-aged choir girls - and since they think they are supposed to anyways, they rape and murder all they want. The girls do their best to defend themselves against these assailants, but one after the other, they - as well as their teachers - fall victim to them, and it's up to two campers (Anthony Forrest, Tom Marshall) to save them ... not that they would do too good a job (though in all fairness, they haven't asked for the job either), as in the end, they only save a couple of girls, but at least they got rid of the killers as well - with the help of the girls, actually.

Early British slasher that on one hand totally follows the established slasher formula and even exceeds most of its American counterparts concerning sleaze, on the other hand, it tries to be not just another genre movie, it's full of dry humour, macabre situations and even a shot of satire and irony, and Alan Birkinshaw's rather old-fashioned directorial effort is a pleasant change from the usually very impersonal, bland direction your average slasher tends to suffer from. All that said, I wouldn't call Killer's Moon a classic in the conventional sense of the word, yet a shocker with cult potential.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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