Once again I forgot that I already watched a film & was ten minutes into the DVD before I remembered this one had been a telefilm. But Blood Moon turned out to be good enough that it was worth sitting through a second time these couple years later.
All the performances are perfect for the intent of the film. Victoria Sanchez is Wolf Girl & Tim Curry is her adoptive father in the circus. Grace Jones is the circus hermaphrodite. They perform musical diddies in their tent-show which are charming good fun, not quite good tunes, but I did quite like those bits, & can easily imagine the whole film adapted as a musical stage play.
The main theme would have to be this: "Is Wolf Girl the horrible wolf preying on the town's people, or is she not?" The secondary theme is about getting a boyfriend who has the hots for a very hairy girl with beard & mustache, but who is in spite of his fetish willing to test his mom's experimental hair removal potion on her since she so badly wants to be a normal girl.
This main plotline isn't the film's chief charm, but it doesn't drag it down either. ÝWhat I most liked about it besides the campy musical numbers was how the film creates a timeless location. The travelling circus is clearly lost in time & place, in a world neither completely modern not completely historical, hence not a place that could exist, yet somehow worked very nicely.
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