I really like this slice of gory entertainment and for some strange reason I consider this film a perfect companion piece to J. P. Simon's PIECES.
I have to admit I get a lot of extra fun out of this movie because bald-headed Otto Retzer (the executive producer who also plays the janitor) has become a prolific TV director around here and has turned into a well-known society figure. Would you expect to watch a celebrity dinner TV show and see the pale-faced cannibal from Franco's DEVILHUNTER serving up roasted trout with carrots? Here's a recent pic of him with his mentor and BLOODY MOON coproducer Karl Spiehs:
Another thing that makes me giggle: the disfigured Miguel is played by Alexander Wächter who is today known as a theatre actor and Shakespeare director. At the time when BLOODY MOON was shot, however, he was familiar with audiences over here for playing an archetypical intellectual mollycoddle in a series that is considered one of the most popular and successful in my country's history of television. It still sees occasional reruns and is being made into a feature film at the moment. Unlike Retzer or Olivia Pascal who don't seem to have a problem with their early exploitation career Wächter doesn't include BLOODY MOON on his resume. I wonder how he ended up in this film in the first place. Perhaps I should nail him down for an interview.
There are also floating around scans of the BLOODY MOON foto story that appeared in a German teen magazine as a promotional piece. Which strikes me as particularly ironic considering that this film is banned there to this day.
