In the seaside town of Cooper's Bay, the students of Winchester Boys School are naturally drawn to the pupils of a nearby Catholic school for girls. They're not the only ones: a psycho lurks in the woods that separate the schools, lured by the thrill of the kill.
Aussie slasher Bloodmoon kicks off in shamelessly lurid fashion with a changing room full of barely legal schoolgirls in the buff, followed by a double murder, the young victims throttled with a barbed wire garotte, their eyes gouged out and fingers removed before being unceremoniously buried in the woods.
With such a gleefully trashy start, one might expect a real sleazy and splattery Ozploitation treat, but while there is still plenty of nudity to come, and a couple more mean-spirited murders (including a victim having her face repeatedly bashed into a desk!), the film doesn't live up to its early promise, becoming mired in a pedestrian plot that involves rivalry between social classes and a teen romance between pretty rich Catholic girl Mary (Helen Thomson) and 'townie' Kevin (Ian Williams).
The killer is suitably deranged (belittled by his wife and sexually frustrated, he takes out his pent up aggression on randy teens), the early-'90s trappings provide a few giggles (the hairstyles are particularly awful), and the rock band Vice, who play at the Winchester high school dance, are awesome, but in the end I felt just a tad disappointed by a plot that veers away from the horror just a touch too much.
Aussie slasher Bloodmoon kicks off in shamelessly lurid fashion with a changing room full of barely legal schoolgirls in the buff, followed by a double murder, the young victims throttled with a barbed wire garotte, their eyes gouged out and fingers removed before being unceremoniously buried in the woods.
With such a gleefully trashy start, one might expect a real sleazy and splattery Ozploitation treat, but while there is still plenty of nudity to come, and a couple more mean-spirited murders (including a victim having her face repeatedly bashed into a desk!), the film doesn't live up to its early promise, becoming mired in a pedestrian plot that involves rivalry between social classes and a teen romance between pretty rich Catholic girl Mary (Helen Thomson) and 'townie' Kevin (Ian Williams).
The killer is suitably deranged (belittled by his wife and sexually frustrated, he takes out his pent up aggression on randy teens), the early-'90s trappings provide a few giggles (the hairstyles are particularly awful), and the rock band Vice, who play at the Winchester high school dance, are awesome, but in the end I felt just a tad disappointed by a plot that veers away from the horror just a touch too much.