Viva_Chiba I am a big fan of Ittenbach and the German ultra-gore, so i couldn't miss this one.Ittenbach is the best of all the German ultra-gore crew, probably because he is more professional and his production values have a lot of quality, see Premutos for a proof (it doesn't even look like low budget).The plot involves in some drug Junkie who tells his sister 2 violent bed time stories, one gorier than the other ! The gore is outrageous: Severings, head explosions, stabbings and the famous scene where a guy gets teared apart.The special effects are very good, Ittenbach is a master of special effects, he deserves to work on more movies.Don't listen to those reviews who says: "this movie sucks because it's low budget", "the special effects sucks, same for the acting", "i can make a better movie with my VHS camera", your opinion doesn't count and i doubt that you can make a movie better than this !

BA_Harrison An early ultra-splatter effort from German gore-fiend Olaf Ittenbach, The Burning Moon is very low-budget, shot-on-video, extremely violent, and, therefore, not likely to appeal to a mainstream audience. However, if you're a fan of underground horror, and love blood 'n' guts to be splashed all over the screen, then this is one to add to your 'must-see' list.The film starts rather slowly, following a teenage oik as he wastes his day attending an interview for a job (that he has no intention of doing), and taking part in a gang fight. At the end of his 'busy' day, he comes home, shoots up with heroin, and settles down to read his little sister a couple of bed-time stories that only a violent junkie would consider suitable.So far, so 'ho-hum'. But then things start to get good.Story number one is 'Julia's Love', in which a young woman unknowingly falls for an escaped homicidal lunatic. When she hears a news report about the maniac on the radio (whilst sat in a car, waiting for her new boyfriend), she realises the awful truth and runs away. Unfortunately, she has left her purse in the car, and it contains her address...'Julia's Love' has a no-nonsense plot which means that Ittenbach can cut to the chase, and get on with delivering maximum nastiness ASAP. The psycho's escape at the beginning of the tale is fairly bloody, but pales in comparison to the gory delights towards the end, when he tracks down his girl and slaughters her family: heads roll, fingers and limbs are chopped off, bodies are burnt, and blood gushes. Great fun!The second tale, 'The Purity', manages to push the depravity even further, starting as it means to go on with the rape and murder of a girl.... by a vicar! It transpires that the bible-thumping pillar of society is actually a secret Satanist, who enjoys the odd spot of killing in-between sermons. The locals are understandably annoyed by the fact that their population is rapidly dwindling, and decide on a spot of vigilantism; unfortunately, they blame the wrong person—a simple farmhand. At this point the plot becomes slightly muddled, as the vicar commits suicide, the angry rabble pay to have the farmhand murdered, and the hired killer is given a personal tour of hell.However, with absolutely tons of impressive effects and OTT violence packed into this segment, one can easily forgive the fact that the narrative goes a little awry. Ittenbach and his crew ladle on the grue, delivering some very nasty deaths, which include several shootings, a pitchfork attack, a throat slashing, a prolonged sequence in which the damned are seen tearing each other apart, and a show-stopping moment when a man is ripped completely in half.By the time junkie-boy has finished his terrifying tales, his sister is dead to the world. And I mean that quite literally—her scag-head brother has stabbed her in the chest! Realising what he has done, he takes a knife to his wrist. And nobody lives happily ever after. The End.

EVOL666 As I've stated in other reviews - I'm not a huge fan of the Euro-gore scene, most films of the genre being silly and pointless. But I have seen a few exceptions, and THE BURNING MOON is one of them. Not a "great" film by any means, but compared to other similar films, it holds up rather well. Unfortunately my copy is in German language only, so I may have missed a few points, but here's the basic story: The film centers around a drug-addict guy who tells his little sister two "fairy tales" before she goes to bed. The first entitled "Julia's Love" is about an escaped mental patient who stalks a woman and her family and dispatches most of them in gory fashion. The second, entitled "The Purity" is about a priest who moonlights as a satanist/rapist/murderer who does his deeds amongst the local villagers. If I understood the story right, an innocent is wrongfully suspected of the murders and is killed, and this segment ends with a suitably gory finale set in hell...I've had THE BURNING MOON laying around for quite a while and just now got to checking it out due to the fact that I've been so disappointed with many of the German/Euro-gore films I've seen - but this one was decent. The blood flows pretty hot-'n'-heavy pretty much right from the start, and let's face it - that's really all we're interested in a film such as this. I liked the "serious" tone of the film, and even though it's obviously a very low-budget affair, there is some decent FX work in the film, and both stories are suitably "rough" and mean-spirited. Definitely worth a look for the splatter-heads out there - one of the better films that this often weak genre has to offer...7/10

grob248 I rented this movie on a whim, and it was a total waste of time and money. Completely lame and cheesy, amateur horror flick from Germany. It has a good amount of gore alright, but it's so fake, stupid, boring and redundant...don't even come near it. It's not even worth the price of paper its cover was printed on.