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DPP 72cult
Director
Jesús Franco
Year
1981
Country
Germany
Runtime
84 min

Also released as

  • Die Säge des Todes
  • The Saw of Death
  • La lune de sang
  • Bloody Moon
  • Colegialas violadas
  • Profonde tenebre
  • Terror y muerte en la universidad
  • Lua Sangrenta
  • The Bloody Moon Murders
  • ブラディ・ムーン/血ぬられた女子寮

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Bloody Moon

Jess Franco doing a slasher for German money. Contains the stone-saw scene and little else.

Jess Franco doing a slasher for German money, which meant a plot he did not write and a body count he had to hit.

A Spanish language school for young women, a disfigured man released from an institution, and a series of killings. Franco shoots it with more coverage and less drift than his own films usually have, because the producers were paying for a product.

There is a sequence involving a stone-cutting saw that is the reason for both the notoriety and the prosecution, and it is filmed in one long take in bright sunlight.

A snake is killed on camera and a child is killed on camera, the latter being unusual enough that several territories cut it regardless of the DPP.

Successfully prosecuted. Franco made around 170 films and this is nobody's favourite.

Banned, seized, prosecuted

DPP 72 · successfully prosecuted

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