The Burning Moon (1992)

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

This movie is a tough mama to find. I finally have it! I saw the trailer in the Traces Of Death III video. When I first saw the trailer I got so curious that I wanted to see this movie. I never found this movie online. The only place I found it was on ebay for more 80 bucks. And I said, 'no way I'm spending 80 dollars just to own this VHS movie rare to find.' Anyway. About a year ago I was in a flea market, somewhere in Mexico. So I saw this guy selling original DVDs for 5 dollars. For my surprise I found The Burning Moon on the section where they have all the 5 dollar movies. I was like, WOA!!!! Hellyeah! On DVD! ORIGINAL! No pirated DVD. 100% ORIGINAL! I was happy to find and I bought it. I'm curious. Where did this guy found or how in the hell was he able to sell a hard to find movie for only 5 bucks! The town that I visited was Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. On the border of El Paso, Texas. Thats where I found the movie. I'm from Laredo, Texas. This movie is to gory for my surprise. A mad priest raping a young girl and then kills her, a criminally insane killer on the loose murdering people, a torturer torturing a guy with drilling his teeth and taking out his guts and then rips him in half! Oh MAN!!! This movie is insane and I loved it! I don't know why is so underground and hard to find this film. Anyway, if you can get your hands on this film, don't sell this film. This is a cult and a collectors film. Nice work Olaf!

One day while surfing the net I happened to come upon a gif of some guy getting torn in half from his crotch up. And it was awesome. I happened to find out it was by a guy I was indeed aware of. One of the true gorehound horror directors out there. Mister Olaf Ittenbach. With that scene and the realization it was made by Olaf, it was time to watch The Burning Moon. The story is about some doucher/druggie/low-life who tells his young sister some stories before she goes to bed. Not that she wanted to hear them. He was shootin up so he thought it was a good idea. Anyways, he tells her two grim as hell stories that don't skimp out on the red stuff. The first revolves around an escaped blood-thirsty mental patient and a young girl who accidentally went out on a date with him. Bad things go down. Which is good! The second story revolves around an evil priest, an innocent young man and a bunch of angry town folk. This second story also delivers the red stuff, and the last third of this one is pretty much non-stop grue.Both stories were very grim, very evil, and just flat out what a serious horror fan should appreciate. Olaf's movies are rarely ever produced on high budgets, but what he manages to show us is pretty impressive. The atmospheres and overall tone of this flick really was very ugly and downbeat. And as usual the writing is very weak, but still, as usual, pretty funny.The Burning Moon is another gore-filled flick from Olaf that any fan of said director, gore and horror should definitely give it a peek. And did I mention a dude gets graphically ripped in half? Oh yeah.

"The Burning Moon" is a shot on video type home movie,but a bit more professional than other similar stuff.It has some really good special effects and is gorier than Andreas Schnaas' stuff,if a little less sadistic.The film is about a druged up teen(Olaf Ittenbach)who gets involved with gang fights and has problems at home.He reads his little sister two stories-which form a basis of the movie.First story "Julia's Love" is about a serial killer,who escapes from asylum and terrorises a girl.Second story "The Purity" is about a priest who likes sacrificing and raping women.He kills himself,but a local who think another bloke is the killer kills him,and he returns as a zombie and it climaxes in Hell.Ittenbach's vision of Hell is almost too horrible to watch-the gore is truly extreme!A really good film,my favourite gore scene:a man strapped to a table is operated on by two demons,who pluck out his eye,crave open his body,rip out his insides and then tear him in half with chains from crotch to throat.

This movie is just an excuse to kill off a lot of people on screen and show plenty of blood and guts and torture. Some scenes in this movie are just downright brutal and it's all very much over the top. For the low budget this obviously had the effects are fantastic and makes you wonder if they were only effects. This movie is extremely hard to track down and when you do find a copy it will likely cost you a lot of cash but it is well worth it. When you see the torture scene at the end you'll know exactly what i meant.