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Bloodmoon (1990 film)

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Bloodmoon
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAlec Mills
Written byRobert Brennan
Produced byGraham Burke
Gregory Coote
David Munro
Stanley O'Toole
StarringLeon Lissek
Christine Amor
Ian Williams
Helen Thomson
Craig Cronin
CinematographyJohn Stokes
Edited byDavid Halliday
Music byBrian May
Production
companies
Michael Fisher Productions
Village Roadshow Pictures
Distributed byRoadshow Entertainment
Release date
22 March 1990 (Australia)
Running time
100 min.
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Box officeA$419,769 (Australia)[1]

Bloodmoon is a 1990 Australian slasher film directed by Alec Mills. It was featured in the famous documentary Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!.

Plot

A serial killer is at large in a catholic school, stalking the students and killing them.

Production

It was shot on the Gold Coast.[2]

Release

The film was released with a "fright break" towards the end where the audience had a chance to walk out and claim a refund.[3]

Critical reception

AllMovie called it a "silly Australian slasher film".[4] Jim Schembri wrote in Cinema Papers that:

It is an unspeakably funny film, but in the saddest possible way. It is a film promoted as a horror film, and it is for anyone with any faith left in Australian mainstream film... For a film as awful, as cliche ridden, as derivative as unimaginative and as poorly made as Bloodmoon to be made in Australia in 1990 is a cause of national mourning.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Australian Films at the Australian Box Office", Film Victoria accessed 24 October 2009
  2. ^ Jim Schembri, "Bloodmoon", Australian Film 1978-1992, Oxford Uni Press, 1993 p294
  3. ^ a b Jim Schembri, "Bloodmoon", Cinema Papers May 1999 p66-67
  4. ^ Firsching, Robert. "Bloodmoon (199) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast - AllMovie". AllMovie. Retrieved 18 August 2012.