Jan 7, 2021
Moon in Scorpio (1987)
"Don't you feel it, Linda? The vibes on this boat are terrible. My dreams were worse than ever last night. I can feel evil - it's inside me, it's inside all of us. They look up at this boat and they see a coffin; they look at that sail like a shroud!"
#moon in scorpio#slasher film#knife tw#american cinema#gary graver#Robert Aiken#britt ekland#john phillip law#william smith#Lewis Van Bergen#April Wayne#Robert Quarry#Jillian Kesner#Bruno Marcotulli#Ken Smolka#Thomas Bloom#James Booth#Donna Kei Benz#Don Scribner#fred olen ray#Ooof what a mess. There isn't a huge amount of info out there about what exactly went wrong with this film and some of it is conflicting#But for certain there were BTS shenanigans. As far as I can tell this was written as a supernatural revenge thriller with Vietnam war links#Then someone tore that up and rewrote it as a straight slasher set at sea. Then it got filmed and taken off the director to be recut and#Have new inserts. So the result is a pretty incoherent mess: the Vietnam vets are here but that plot point gets dropped entirely half way#Through. There are hints of a supernatural menace but then that too goes nowhere. Instead we get a ropey slasher with some painfuly stilted#Exposition scenes spliced in to make the whole thing a flashback (and in the process revealing who lives and who dies in the opening few#Minutes). A mess. Plus the disc contains the trailer which reveals footage and evidence of alternate scenes and completely different#Stagings for at least one of the kills. Which only raises more questions! My god what happened here. And there was i thinking the quality#Of the cast on this one meant it was probably going to be a premium horror; nope this is bargain basement offal. Still it looks good#And my mans JPL is watchable in any old tosh (handy considering most of his filmography was any old tosh)
