18. Bloody Moon (1981)
Miguel, a disfigured young man, tries to coax a girl into having sex with him. When she refuses, he hacks her up with a pair of scissors and is institutionalised. He is released into the care of his sister Manuela, who runs a language learning academy on the Costa del Sol. Miguel takes a notion of Angela, a beautiful young brunette girl, and follows her around. He also tries to reignite the incestuous affair they once had but Manuela refuses - saying that that was what made him go doolally in the first place. Angela's friends all start dying in strange ways (one is decapitated in a saw mill) and she is convinced there is a killer on the loose but no one believes her. Can she convince Manuela that something weird is going on before even more people die? Jess Franco has a go at Slasher films with Bloody Moon. It is certainly not the worst film he ever made and can be quite good fun if you enter into the spirit of the proceedings. Franco liberally spreads red herrings as to who is the murderer all over the place and the worst excesses of his inherent sleaziness are just ever so slightly tuned down for Bloody Moon. Gorehounds will be excited by the bloody mayhem in the film but I have to warn you, it is a very talky film and slow paced - that may quell your desire to watch this film. However over all, I would have to deem it a classic Euro horror film. Kudos to Franco!