Supelice Dreadfully Boring

ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Freeman This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Coventry "Quite possibly the sleaziest film ever made in Britain". These aren't my words but a quote from a certain I.Q. Hunter, who's a respectable author and acclaimed cult cinema expert. Mr. Hunter was a guest at the local film festival in my country and provided this film – as well as a few other flamboyant British horror outings – with an interesting foreword. This man surely knows what he talks about and I definitely enjoyed listening to the trivia items that he shared with the audience, but I'm really not sure if I agree with this review's opening statement. "Killer's Moon" is a sleazy piece of work, no argument there, but I still don't think it compares to – for example - "House of Whipcord", "Prey" or "Inseminoid". What struck me most about "Killer's Moon" is how much better and more significant it easily could have been… This film doesn't necessarily require a bigger budget, nor a more professional cast or even more action/atmosphere. It already has everything, only a slightly more skillful direction and a bit of coherence in the script would have been welcome. The ramshackle bus of a school of choir girls and their two uptight teachers breaks down in the middle of the godforsaken English countryside, and they are forced to spend the night in a castle-hotel that normally is closed for the season. Not a problem, you'd think, except for the fact that four escaped asylum patients are at large in the area. As a result of oddball drug-experiments, these four are high on LSD and under the impression they tripping around in a dream. They break into the hotel and joyously begin raping, murdering and philosophizing, whilst the shrinking group of girls seeks the help of two tough campers. It's a rather preposterous and laughable to assume that mental patients are fed LSD as treatment, let alone that they can freely run around without any kind of authorities searching for them. There are numerous of other improbabilities in the script, like characters suddenly vanishing and that sort of stuff, but I advise not to let them bother you too much. Furthermore "Killer's Moon" is stuffed with gratuitous nudity and "incorrect" misogynic dialogs ("you were only raped, as long as you don't tell anyone about it you'll be alright. You just pretend it never happened"), like a truly rancid product of the late 70's ought to be! Writer/director Alan Birkinshaw's decision to dress up the four lunatics and let them behave exactly like Alex DeLarge and his companions in "A Clockwork Orange" is either a funny homage or a shameless imitation, I don't know. My guess is that it was just a silly idea that popped up in his mind, like the heroic three-legged dog.

andrabem-1 Four criminal psychopaths undergoing LSD therapy (!) that escaped from a lunatic asylum. A group of stranded schoolgirls lodged in a mansion/castle. The four psychos will make their way to the girls through a string of murders. When they meet the girls, there will be a massacre - rape and murder."Killer's Moon", story wise, is the exploitation buff's dream, but there's no real nudity (just some bits of flesh), sex is more suggested than shown, and there's violence (not very explicit) but no gore. But this isn't really important because the story is violent and sleazy."Killer's Moon" may not be a great film but I've quite enjoyed it - besides having a good story, it's ironic, involuntarily funny and bizarre (suffice it to mention the three-legged dog!).Recommended for those who love the 70s exploitation films.

movieman_kev A group of schoolgirls are terrorized by four crazed escaped mental patients who believe that they're dreaming in this sleazy little British film. This movie starts off fairly slow and keeps that leisurely pace throughout even when the action ramps up. That, along with the killers being a little on the pushover side, (one gets dispatched by a three-legged dog!!!!) kept me from getting that involved with the movie. For a similarly themed but MUCH better film, you'd do well to rent 1982's "Alone in the Dark" which is everything great that this film is not.My Grade: D DVD Extras: Commentary by Director Alan Birkinshaw & actress Joanne Good; Interviews with Birkenshaw & Good color & black and white stills galleries; original & original x-rated trailers for this film; and a trailer for "Nature Morte" (which features nudity)

christopher-underwood This is a classic case of scoring a film more according for what it sets out to be rather than what place it carves out for itself in the world of cinema. I can enjoy the best of them and the very worst. This is not the very worst but there is much that is poor, like most of the dialogue and too much chasing about in dark woods, but there is still enough that is different, gutsy and fun to make it essential viewing. What we have here is a bus half full of schoolgirls, singing sweetly, and four escaped baddies. And not just ordinary baddies but full blown psychos who are in the middle of LSD induced dream therapy. So we get screaming girls, not seeming to mind too much that they loose their tops rather easily, and ghastly, gleeful killings and rape from the escaped ones. Now these bad boys are supposedly escaped from hospital care and that's why there are all in white but, as has been noted by others, they do rather look and act as if they have stepped out of Clockwork Orange. Whilst most of the dialogue would have been improved if simply improvised on the spot, the four boys in white have great fun, joking about who is in whose dream, double checking as to whether they can really do whatever they like etc. Great fun.