Luna di sangue (1989) User Reviews

Awfully talky and quickly forgotten

[rundbauchdodo · 3/10 · 9 October 2002]

This quite cheaply produced inheritance thriller delivers a hardly exciting Giallo plot, rather weak actors and far too much dialogue that doesn't really push the plot forward. The only thing that makes this film about dark plans of a ruthless killer to drive a wealthy young woman without any relatives crazy (to inherit her money, of course) extraordinary is the handful of gore effects: They are quite nasty and don't fit at all into the rest of the picture. Except for these FX, this film makes the impression of a boring sub-par thriller made for cable. All in all this movie hasn't really got anything remarkable in it and is quickly forgotten: 3 out of 10.

By the way: This is one of the five films legendary director Lucio Fulci supervised in 1989 to re-use some of the gory bits for his 1990 splatterfest "Nightmare Concert". The other four are the remarkable "The Snake House" (aka "Bloody Psycho"), the interesting but overtly cheaply made "Non Si Seviziano i Bambini" (aka "Hänsel e Gretel"), the sometimes gross "Non Avere Paura della Zia Marta" and sleazeball Andrea Bianchi's "Massacre" that is as tedious as "Luna di Sangue".

Tedious late 80's Italian giallo.

[HumanoidOfFlesh · 5/10 · 15 April 2010]

"Luna di Sangue" is a routine and extremely dull late 80's Italian giallo which was once again produced by Lucio Fulci.A woman(Barbara Blasko)who is the sole heir to a vast fortune is to be driven insane so others can get their hands on her wealth.I have to agree with the previous reviewer from Switzerland."Luna di Sangue" is extremely boring and relentlessly talky thriller.There are three or four gore scenes in the film including fairly nasty decapitation by scythe,which was later shown in Fulci's "Cat in a Brain".Enzo Milioni's giallo "The Sister of Ursula" at least wallowed in graphic sleaze with its dildo killer."Luna di Sangue" despite its cult Italian cast(Zora Kerova,Annie Belle)is too dull to be enjoyable.A generous 5 out of 10.

Great kills, so to speak

[BandSAboutMovies · 3/10 · 16 December 2023]

Ignore the Lucio Fulci Presents, as he had nothing to do with this other than to sign over his name. It was directed by Enzo Milioni, who also made Quello strano desiderio and The Sister of Ursula, and was written by Millioni and Giovanni Simonelli, who directed Hansel e Gretel.

A dying man tells the story of Ann Moffett (Barbara Blasco) and how she found her husband Larry's dead body only for it to disappear. No one believed her and a year later, a man comes to visit her and claims to be her dead husband.

In case you wondered just how far Milloni can take things, there's a scene where a farmer catches his mute and potentially mentally deficient daughter Tanya (Luciana Ottaviani AKA Jessica Moore from Eleven Days, Eleven Nights) fooling around with two men in his stable. He chases them off and his daughter then proceeds to kneel before him and commit an act of incestual oral copulation, capped off by someone shooting her in the back of the head, removing his member, which is shot again and then he's shot in the face.

You may have seen the head being pushed out a window and the head of Annie Belle (House On the Edge of the Park) being sliced off with a scythe in the Fulci compilation that is Cat In the Brain.

How does this all work together in a kind of, sort of giallo? It doesn't. It has a few murder set pieces that don't fit in and a story that goes nowhere. Such is life.