The slasher in the hands of British was a lovely thing indeed. From Peter Walker and his family takes like FRIGHTMARE, Gary Sherman and his zombie staggering delight of DEATH LINE and even the Amicus and Hammer films of the later era. With a whole rath of them to explore, it is difficult to find something unique or dare say, worth getting your eyes on. So along comes slasher KILLERS MOON. Depicted as a different take and a delight for any fan of this canon, it was a must. Starting with a school outing in the Yorshire dales. A dodgy bus is travelling down the by lanes on its way somewhere. On said bus are a group of choir school girls who are excited about everything. When the bus breaks down, they are stranded out in the countryside with only the vague hope of a hotel nearby. They think that they are lucky but along side this story is one of an escaped group of pyschopaths, who are currently walking through a waking dream where anything goes. When the girls arrive at a hotel, behind them are bodies, axed to death. Bodies, impaled to a door and the night is young yet, more blood to flow…

The film seems to want to be a cross between A CLOCKWORK ORANGE and STRAW DOGS. At least this is what the advertising and promotional material would like it to be. What you get another, none Brits take on the reverbs of Britishness like Spain’s THE LIVING DEAD AT MANCHESTER MORGUE. However, the clammering girls under menace, the stalking viciousness of those escaped mental patients and the unsettled boarding motifs however, guide us back to these shores. Which lands us on its director, Alan Birkinshaw. He was an entity on the fringes of British film, who had to run away and come back to the UK in order to make any films. He made some, his most notable was CONFESSIONS OF A SEX MANIAC (available on 88 Films). In his Interview, Birkinshaw mentions it once only. Thankfully. What he does talk more about is how KILLERS MOON was recycled a few times in his Agatha Christie remakes. Why I mention this is that the overall vibe fits better. This is a British take on the British. More exploitative, even more bloody than others it delivers asavage isle of carnage, and  dialogue written by his sister Fay Weldon, the now deceased writer of note. I implore you to watch This Chiller St. Trinian’s” A Video Essay on Killer’s Moon. 88 Films have produced a lot of good work. This is on top of their Hong Kong films and their Italian films content.

SPECIAL FEATURES


• INCLUDES FIRST PRESSING GLOSS SLIPCASE FEATURING NEW ARTWORK BY JOEL ROBINSON
  
• INCLUDES FOLD OUT POSTER
• Remastered Transfer from the Internegative in 1.78:1 Aspect Ratio
• High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) Presentation
• 2.0 LPCM Stereo
• Optional English SDH
• Audio commentary with Film Critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
• “Horror Moons and Killer Safaris” – An Interview with Director Alan Birkinshaw
• “Joanne’s Moon” – An Interview with Actress Joanne Good
• This Chiller St. Trinian’s” A Video Essay on Killer’s Moon
• Original Trailers (2)
• Reversible Sleeve