Killer's Moon [HD]

Men In White
Take a bus load of nubile schoolgirls who get stranded in the Lake District, four violent prisoners who are being treated with a new drug that has them believing that they are living in a dream and a couple of decent chaps who fill the knights-in-shining-armour role and you have the basis for something of a cult British horror movie. I first saw this film in the early 1980s, in the good old days of pre-certificated videos. As far as I know, `Killer's Moon' was never reissued in the UK after the introduction of the Video Recordings Act until this DVD's release in 2008. It's one of those films that you felt could have succumbed to the vagaries of the censors' sensibilities, especially because of its depictions of sexual violence. The good news is that the film is uncut. The comparisons with I Spit On Your Grave (Millennium Edition) and A Clockwork...

Killer's Moon
It is very exciting that all those European cult horror films are arriving in mass quantities to the US in their Blu-ray formats. One of the main distribution companies is Redemption, who has been responsible for bringing the works of such cult directors as Jean Rollin, Dario Argento, Mario Bava, Jess Franco, and others. As part of their prestigious catalogue, comes the riveting and electrifying "Killer's Moon," directed by Alan Birkinshaw.

Right at the beginning of the film, we are told that a criminal has escaped from the hospital, while being in treatment, and that he took three other insane individuals with him. They are apparently living in a dream, and which "people are the devil and in need of obliteration." Enter a bus full of school girls who are taking a ride at the countryside. Sadly, their bus suffers a malfunction, and they have to find shelter for the night. Luckily, they find a hotel, which happens to be empty due to the season. Enter, too, two fellows that...

Ditch the muu-muus
The girls wear the baggy white gowns on the cover the whole show, although I may have missed something fast-forwarding. The intro promised nubile women, so ditch the muu-muus. And the ridiculous bowler hat on the perp. Note to Director: T&A is the only reason anyone is going to watch a movie like this. Tame and lame.

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