Moon in Scorpio

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Moon in scorpio is an 80s slasher about some people going on a honeymoon on a boat. It has decent acting. There's one actress i've seen in other movies her name is Britt Ekland known from the wicker man, one of the James Bond movies and the hills have eyes, one of my personal favourite horror movies. The characters are wierd and bad, it almost doesn't seem like they've ever met before. In the first fourty minutes of the movie almost nothing happens. I think they chould have done something more those foury minutes. The mystery is really easy to solve and you probably won't be suprised at all who's killing people. Some of the scenes in the movie should have been cut and maby it whould be better. Overall Moon in scorpio deserves a 3,4 out of 10 i whould maby rate it a little bit higher, but that's probably because i love bad movies. So i enjoyed it even with all the flawes in it, i can't really say that i recommend it, but if you are one of those people like me who loves wierd slashers i recommend you should watch it.

A dangerous lunatic escapes from a hospital, killing a doctor and a salesman in the process. Worried about a potential scandal, the hospital hires private investigator Richard Vargas (Don Scribner, who looks like Christian Bale) to find the missing patient. The investigation leads to a yacht where the only passenger, a catatonic woman (Britt Ekland), stabs Vargas in the stomach. A few days later, the woman, Linda -- now in hospital and a little more lucid -- explains to Dr. Khorda (Robert Quarry) the events leading up the disappearance of her fellow passengers: her newlywed husband Allen (John Phillip Law), his wartime buddies Burt (William Smith) and Mark (Louis Van Bergen), and their girlfriends Claire (Jillian Kesner) and Isabel (April Wayne). When a film clearly isn't working, at what point do you call it a day, cut your losses, and shelve the whole thing? In the case of Moon In Scorpio, not soon enough. Not happy with their movie, the producers tried to salvage something from director Gray Gravers original cut by re-editing it, turning it from what was apparently originally intended to be a supernatural horror into a cheesy slasher. It didn't help: the film is still incredibly bad. The direction is about what you might expect from a * film-maker like Graver, but one would hope for more than *-level acting from the cast: sadly, the usually reliable Smith is seriously off-form, and both Law and Ekland prove that it was looks and not talent that got them noticed in the first place. Kesner and Wayne were obviously hired for their bodies and a willingness to flash their * when asked. Whoever re-edited this garbage had an unenviable task, but failed to rise to the occasion, the final film an incoherent mess that should have been consigned to the trash. Ekland provides a voiceover to try and help explain matters, but it doesn't help any: half the time, the actress is merely describing exactly what is happening on screen ("Alan tried to strangle me"... WE KNOW!). Perhaps if the killings had been more creative and gorier, the film might have been bearable, but the deaths are unimaginative, repetitive, and not all that splattery (I've had bloodier paper cuts than some of them). The killer's spiky glove weapon with retractable barbs is certainly unique, but isn't put to good use. 1.5/10, rounded up to 2 for the gratuitous bare breasts, and the wholly unconvincing Vietnam war scenes -- dense jungle has never looked so much like the local park.

but I had to watch it as is. As is, it's awful. I can definitely buy that it was cut to pieces in the editing room, because the characters don't even get onto the boat until about 30 minutes in - the time before that being taken up by about three different, and inconsequential subplots that fail (in my opinion) to enhance the story one bit. And once they're on the boat, we get treated to the killer's ludicrous stalking about . . . seriously, you're on a small boat, why can't you 'hear' the crazy slasher coming? Once people start dropping dead, aren't you going to be a teensy bit more careful about everyone's comings and goings? And the 'Nam flashbacks are laughable. The peasants look like they're wearing day-glow rags, while the lush Southeast Asian forests are represented by someone's back forty. To be fair, the cover art's impressive, although at least one of the screen caps on the back wasn't even in the movie.

Definitely the worst film I have seen. Although i haven't seen 'Manos hands of fate' or 'Gigli' yet, I can say for sure that this film belongs down with them. It seems like the director has tried to make every scene dramatic and creepy, resulting in no build-ups or pauses, no sense of flow in the story, just a 1½ hour boring/embarrassing goo of silly murder scenes and pointless dialogues. Finally, I don't think there's reason why it's called 'Moon In Scorpio'. There's one really stupid scene (which is supposed to be thoughtful), where Gary Graver squeezes in the title in Britt Eklands dialogue, but it makes no sense at all... 1/10 for some 'so bad it's good'-scenes

This is a below average movie that at best could have been an average thriller. The plot is confusing and has more holes than all the golf courses at Myrtle Beach. Britt Ekland is in a mental hospital relating her story to a psychiatrist about multiple murders on a boat. Her story starts as the newly weds (her and John Phillip Law, both trying to play characters 20 years younger) decide to spend their honey moon on a boat with 2 of his ex Viet Nam comrades and their sexy girlfriends. There are flashbacks of some Viet Nam war action thrown in. There are a few murders at the hospital with some one investigating the murders. Once on the boat people begin to get murdered one by one by what appears to be the ghost of a Viet Cong soldier. There are 2 people eventually left on the boat, Britt Ekland and a very sexy, spooky girlfriend of one of the other men. The 2 women left standing I suppose believe the other person is the murderer so Britt Ekland ends up killing her and that is the end of her story. The psychiatrist sort of says "well OK" walks away and hey its all over. You can watch this movie straight through without missing a second and still feel as though you walked away from it several times for 5 minutes.

"Moon in Scorpio" is one of the worst slasher flicks I have ever seen.Everything in this picture is by-the-numbers,and even undemanding horror fans who only ask for competent gore will be disappointed,as the numerous murders(mostly stabbings and throat slashings)are practically anemic.Shot on a very low budget,the production values are almost nonexistent and the story moves at a snail's pace.This is truly bad horror film full of meaningless scenes which do nothing to the plot.The acting is completely awful and the direction by Gary Graver is even worse.An absolute trash-avoid it like the plague.My rating:2/10(for some nice murders).

Recently purchased this as part of the Slasher Classic's Collection releases & giving that I'm such a big fan of 80's slashers - I've honestly never heard of this & after viewing it, well its hardly a lost gem. In-fact quite the opposite. The plot is a Vietnam vet with PTSD & his new wife are invited for their honeymoon aboard his friend's yacht along with 2 other couples to sail to a tropical island, but of course they don't make it as they are soon picked off one by one by mysterious gloved assailant with an unusual, pronged murder weapon. Throughout the movie we get Britt Ekland narrating what happened (that's not a spoiler its literary at the start of the movie) & I hate when they do this as you already know she's going to survive, so that takes away any tension or suspense that the movie may have had. Not that this has any of that mind you as this was for the most part incredibly boring & very confusing at times with the way it skips back & forth between time-lines, along with the Nam flashbacks which didn't look authentic at all & come off as more amusing than anything, as well as the mis-match of bad acting on everyone's part with very clunky dialogue, even by Britt Ekland herself with her awful line readings & unable to show any sort of range or emotion, coming across as more hilarious than anything. All of the actors are like that in this, with some acting like they're in a different type of movie & some are just hamming it up for fun. The cheapness of the production really shows here, with like I already said the War flashbacks which don't look real at all, even the uniforms were awful. Plus, none of this fits the aesthetic of the movie as none of it means anything by the end. The slasher elements don't really happen until the last 15/20 minutes of the film & they're not all that exciting with nobody making any noise when they die, as well as the mystery element doesn't work as its pretty much signposted throughout. On the whole I'd say the movie's troubled production history is probably the most interesting aspect of this mess, as that original plot sounded way more interesting than this watered down mess.

Sometimes, Gary Graver was making movies with Orson Welles. Other times, he was making ultra low budget films that were originally about soldiers burning down a temple to a snake goddess and being hunted years later by a Vietnamese child all grown up. Instead, the producers wanted a slasher set on a yacht. And that's kind of what we got. But man, what a cast! John Phillip Law? William Smith? Britt Ekland? Robert Quarry? Jillian Kesner from Firecracker and Raw Force? Any one of these actors will get me to watch a movie. All of them at the same time? Come on! Shout out to Justin Decloux, who revealed on Letterboxd that the budget for this came from Fred Olen Ray bringing Commando Squad in under budget and Graver saying that he could make another movie with what was left. After Grave shot the film and made his cut, the producers hated it and asked Ray to reshoot it for $5,000, adding in the crazy weapon and bloodier kills. That same camera equipment for the extra scenes got co-opted to make Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers and the movie ended - and that one - ended up being a big success. Hey look - Britt Ekland starts this movie off in a straightjacket and it gets goofier from there. I can absolutely respect that. I also love that some actors in this are really trying to act (underline and bold that and make it very large in font size) while others are just trying to make a slasher. That's me - I'd rather a movie be a mess with a troubled production history than good sometimes.

Despite numerous bad reviews I still for some reason decided to watch 'Moon in Scorpio'. I should have listened to those reviews... 'Moon in Scorpio' is another movie where I didn't care one bit about any of the characters. It was also hard to tell who the protagonist or antagonist is. The incoherent script is really bad, the dialogue is bad, and it was very badly acted, as well. 'Moon in Scorpio' is all over the place with too much going on that wasn't interesting at all. In fact, the film was slow and boring. The events of the fateful nights aboard a yacht is revealed through retellings of Linda (Britt Ekland), who is in police custody. Ekland was unconvincing and I couldn't really make out whether she was making up a story, or actually telling the truth. Truth is, I couldn't care less. This was a complete waste of time and a film I'd like to forget, but probably will remember for how bad it is. It also has an abrupt ending without motivation for what happened. Ugh...! Would I watch it again? No.