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also known as "Die Säge des Todes"
What is special about this DVD?
This cult favorite Teen Horror / Exploitation Film by Jess Franco is very rare throughout the world. This edition also includes a collectable booklet.
Special Features:
"Bllody Moon" Trailer (Approx 2 minutes)
"Linda" Trailer (Approx 3 minutes)
Slideshow
Scene Selection
An imdb user perhaps summarized this film best by saying: "Killing beauty queens...Jess Franco Style !!"
Plot Summary (from imdb.com)
Miguel (Christopher Brugger), a young man with a horribly disfigured face, goes on a rampage at a masquerade party and rapes a girl. He then brutally hacks up the young woman with a pair of scissors. Miguel is institutionalized at a mental asylum for five years. Afterward, he is released into the care of his sister, Manuela (Olivia Pascal). Along with their wheelchair bound mother, they operate a boarding school for young woman, called Europe's International Youth-Club Boarding School of Languages, on the Spanish resort of Costa Del Sol. Miguel is intrigued by Angela (Nadja Gerganoff), a long-haired brunette, whom he first saw on the train ride from the sanitarium. The creepy Miguel follows her around. Miguel meets with Manuela to request that they resume their incestuous relationship. She reminds him that it was this relationship that made him emotionally unstable five years earlier. She says they cannot because nobody understands them: "Only if we could get rid of everyone, then things could go back to the way they were." Then Angela's friends are killed one by one. One, while topless, is skewered from behind by a 12-inch knife that exits her right nipple. Another is coerced by a romantic masked Spaniard who insists on tying her up in an abandoned lumber mill (which according to her is "kinky," but OK) and is decapitated quite nicely with a large power saw, complete with squirting blood from her neck. A young boy is run over mid-section by a Mercedes. Another friend is strangled by smoldering fireplace tongs. There is also the real decapitation of a snake. When the girls start to turn up missing, nobody believes Angela that there's a killer on the loose. She had seen the corpse of one girl, and it was gone as soon as she went for help. Confused and scared, Angela finally looks for help from the people who run the school. The total body-count by the end of the movie is 9 (6 females and 3 males).
Jess Franco very memorable addition to the popular trend of teen slasher films... Franco's style is clearly present in all aspects of the movie, leaving nothing to the imagination.
Starring:
Olivia Pascal
Christoph Moosbrugger
Nadja Gerganoff
Alexander Waechter
Corinna Drews
Ann-Beate Engelke
Peter Exacoustos
Jesus Franco (plays a doctor)
Antonia García
Jasmin Losensky
María Rubio
Directed By:
Jess Franco
Technical Details
Dolby Digital Original English Audio
All Regions Pal
MPAA Rating:
Unrated
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