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Blood Moon
DVD/APPROX. 97 MINS/2001/CANADA R18+
DVD/APPROX. 97 MINS/2001/CANADA R18+
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Blood Moon is a real travesty. Not because it features a freak show with things like a slightly portly guy and some trapeze artists. Not because
Zula from Conan The Destroyer plays a hermaphrodite. Not even because the freak show features a variety of strip teases, including a
hermaphrodite one, and none of the parents in the audience seem to have a problem with their children watching. No, Blood Moon is an utter
failure because it takes nearly 50 minutes to get to the first shower scene. After watching things like Of Unknown Origin and The Forsaken, I got
used to a shower scene during or before the opening credits.
Anyway, a wimpy kid has a mom working at a place testing on animals. A freak show, hosted by an oddly caring Tim Curry, comes into town, and
quickly wows everyone in attendance. A song about a bearded lady with ‘pluck’ replacing ‘fuck?’ They love it. A midget strip show? They love it. A
hairy girl howling in a cage? They love it. Except for a few teens who throw poop at the wolf girl. Why did they have poop? Well, they were asked
to curb their dog, and so naturally just carried the shit with them the rest of the evening.
Wolf Girl hooks up with the wimp, and he injects her with an experimental hair loss serum. For some reason, the serum also makes her super
strong, but she does begin to lose her hair. The story begins to borrow heavily from Wolf, with the lead slowly changing into a more lupine nature,
also borrowing the vegetarian eating meat theme from The Howling. I do like that she becomes more wolf-like as she loses her hair, but why
doesn’t she lose her head hair? She loses facial hair. That’s on her head. So why does the bit on the top of her cranium remain? Tim Curry tells the
wolf girl her back-story, and demonstrates unmentioned psychic ability by knowing what happened to wolf girl’s mother despite never having met
her and the woman being dead. Wolf girl gets more and more violent, and more and more bald.
Given the cover and ad art for Blood Moon, the film boasts shockingly high production values. While the film is slow, silly, pretty plodding, and not
really interesting, it does remain relatively slick. There are some truly great lines that should become oft sampled like, ‘Ugly people should not be
put on display for other people to stare at. They should be allowed to stay at home,’ and, ‘What the hell kinda world would this be if we all got
what we deserved?’ The film seems to be trying to say something about exploitation and inner fears, but it all gets lost in the banality of the
proceedings.
Watch for the magic face gashes (garnered from a slap!) that magically heal in less than one minute and the magical cotton candy that gets a foot
taller between frames.
Howard the Duck makes a de suited appearance.
Zula from Conan The Destroyer plays a hermaphrodite. Not even because the freak show features a variety of strip teases, including a
hermaphrodite one, and none of the parents in the audience seem to have a problem with their children watching. No, Blood Moon is an utter
failure because it takes nearly 50 minutes to get to the first shower scene. After watching things like Of Unknown Origin and The Forsaken, I got
used to a shower scene during or before the opening credits.
Anyway, a wimpy kid has a mom working at a place testing on animals. A freak show, hosted by an oddly caring Tim Curry, comes into town, and
quickly wows everyone in attendance. A song about a bearded lady with ‘pluck’ replacing ‘fuck?’ They love it. A midget strip show? They love it. A
hairy girl howling in a cage? They love it. Except for a few teens who throw poop at the wolf girl. Why did they have poop? Well, they were asked
to curb their dog, and so naturally just carried the shit with them the rest of the evening.
Wolf Girl hooks up with the wimp, and he injects her with an experimental hair loss serum. For some reason, the serum also makes her super
strong, but she does begin to lose her hair. The story begins to borrow heavily from Wolf, with the lead slowly changing into a more lupine nature,
also borrowing the vegetarian eating meat theme from The Howling. I do like that she becomes more wolf-like as she loses her hair, but why
doesn’t she lose her head hair? She loses facial hair. That’s on her head. So why does the bit on the top of her cranium remain? Tim Curry tells the
wolf girl her back-story, and demonstrates unmentioned psychic ability by knowing what happened to wolf girl’s mother despite never having met
her and the woman being dead. Wolf girl gets more and more violent, and more and more bald.
Given the cover and ad art for Blood Moon, the film boasts shockingly high production values. While the film is slow, silly, pretty plodding, and not
really interesting, it does remain relatively slick. There are some truly great lines that should become oft sampled like, ‘Ugly people should not be
put on display for other people to stare at. They should be allowed to stay at home,’ and, ‘What the hell kinda world would this be if we all got
what we deserved?’ The film seems to be trying to say something about exploitation and inner fears, but it all gets lost in the banality of the
proceedings.
Watch for the magic face gashes (garnered from a slap!) that magically heal in less than one minute and the magical cotton candy that gets a foot
taller between frames.
Howard the Duck makes a de suited appearance.
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