Killer's Moon

Killer's Moon (1978)

Irgendwo in einer ländlichen Einöde Englands strandet ein Mädchenchor, nachdem ihr Bus mit einem Defekt liegen bleibt, in einem abgelegenen Bed-and-Breakfast. Dummerweise findet in der Gegend auch gerade ein sehr revolutionäres Experiment mit gewalttätigen Straftätern, die einer sogenannten Traum-Therapie unterzogen werden, statt. Unter LSD gesetzt, wird den Verbrechern eingeimpft...

Erscheinungsdatum
1978-07-06
TMDB
5.1 / 10 (25)
Laufzeit
1 Std. 30 Min.
Genres
Horror, Krimi
Regie
Alan Birkinshaw

Besetzung

Wissenswertes

Killer's Moon is a 1978 British slasher film written and directed by Alan Birkinshaw, with uncredited dialogue written by his novelist sister, Fay Weldon, and starring Anthony Forrest, Tom Marshall, Jane Hayden, JoAnne Good, Nigel Gregory, David Jackson and Lisa Vanderpump. It follows a group of schoolgirls on a choir trip who are terrorized by four escaped psychiatric patients on LSD while staying in a remote hotel in the Lake District.

Production

During the mid-to-late 1970s, maverick directors such as Pete Walker and Norman J. Warren were trying to spice up the much-derided genre of British horror films. These films would later be dubbed "New Wave" British horror, on account that they pushed the boundaries of taste as much as was possible within the British Board of Film Classification's strict regime and were set in modern-day 1970s Britain and centered on 20-30 aged protagonists, diffe…

Killer's Moon was shot off season at Armathwaite Hall in the Lake District. The eclectic cast includes David Jackson, Jane Hayden (sister of cult actress Linda Hayden), JoAnne Good, future restaurateur Lisa Vanderpump, Hilda Braid, comedian Chubby Oates and Hannah the three legged dog. Hannah the three legged dog in the film, was originally a pub dog who had lost a leg as the result of a shotgun wound sustained during an armed robbery.

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