5. Bloody Moon (1981)
Bloody Moon is a stalk and slash film by ultra cult director - love him or loathe him - Jesus Franco. I have a peculiar fondness for this little film, Franco was definitely not a straight horror film director, but he didn't do a bad job in Bloody Moon. A slightly scuzzy film featuring an incestuous relationship between a brother and sister, the brother Miguel is a deeply disturbed, disfigured maniac and the sister Manuela runs a languages school. It is at the language school where the murders begin... For gorehounds and slasher fans, the killings are pretty satisfying and lurid. A topless girl gets skewered on a knife which exits her right nipple. Another girl has her head power-sawed off. There is the death of a little boy getting gruesomely run over by a car and another girl is strangled by smoking hot fire tongs. Bloody Moon will not tax your brain too much. The red herrings are fairly obvious - you get two to decide between and... well, I will leave it to you to figure it out. The music is bloody awful which is strange as Franco scores are usually pretty decent. There is actually less sleaze here than in the average Franco movie but for horror and slasher fans, the film is adequately satisfying.