if you judge every director on only the one title and then your dvd shelf would be a very lonely place . coppola and spielberg and stone and hell even scorsese they have all make slight amiscalculations throughout their respective career . keep that in mind though and the last film that i saw from gary graver be the abysmal lasher trick or treat and which in all honesty make plan 9 from out space look intellectual . take that into account i must admit that i do not expect much from moon in scorpio . but with notorious exploitation titan fred olen ray on board a co producer and there no way of ever know exactly what to expect . in all honesty the bizarre casting decision of put britt eckland name above the title be more than enough to get my initial curiosity arouse . keep thing hackneyed and we begin with the old of all slasher clichés . yep you guess it while an unseen nut nut make a break from the least secure mental hospital imaginable and kill an unfortunate orderly on the way . once outside the complex and the psycho make short work of a cheery pharmaceutical salesman and then flee the scene in the dead guy car . for some inexplicable reason and the head psychiatrist doesn not bother inform the police that they have a murderous maniac on the loose . instead he call in private detective richard vargas who be describe by one shrink a be and almost crazy enough to be a patient here himself . next we fast forward two week and vargas be see board an abandon look boat that be adrift in the middle of the sea . once on board he find linda ( britt eckland ) sprawl across the floor in a heap . whilst attempt to wake her up and she stab him in the stomach with a bizarre spear like device . the ( unconvincingly ) hysterical linda be then drag off of the boat by two orderly who do not seem at all concern by the fact that vargas have just be fatally impale on the huge spike . a few day later and linda be fit to be interview by the head psychiatrist and he ask her what exactly happen out in the middle of the sea . we soon learn that she have be on a honeymoon with her husband and two of his war buddy and their girlfriend . the plan be to sail too acapulco and spend a couple of week lap up the sun on the beach . unfortunately along with the suitcase and sangria and the gang have inadvertently bring along a maniacal killer who have his own reason to want to be strand in the ocean with the holidaymaker . for the rest of the runtime and we see through flashback exactly what happen aboard the cursed death ship . just who be responsible for these viscous murder . accord to many report that i have read over the web and moon in scorpio be continually re edit by the distributor and be eventually release without any of the supernatural element that have be originally intend from the script . the imdb mention a vampire and astrological plot point and which sound intriguing and but couldn not be far from the content of the version that be eventually release direct to video . the only available vhs print be typical slasher by the number fare and and contain no trace of the rumor paranormal ingredient . perhaps one day a director cut dvd will solve the riddle of the miss plot point . unfortunately whether you can blame the edit happy distributor or not and scorpio be a lackadaisical entry that lack suspense and creativity and effort from any of the big name cast member . eckland be laughable a she struggle to look even slightly motivate and whilst hard man character actor william smith be totally waste in an undemanding role . the film structure be also totally inept . the flashback narration seem to run illogically beside what we be see on the screen and we be never give a credible conclusion a to the killer motif . at a guess and i would say that the maniac become a vampire post death in the scene that end up on the cutting room floor . at one point in the runtime there a slight hint a a character drink her partner blood after he accidentally cut his finger whilst dice carrot . there also a sub plot involve a link between the three male cast member and who fight in vietnam together . but these few scene and which amusingly look more like they be film in a park down the road from gary graver house than anywhere near nam and never amount to anything either . if you do not manage to work out the unseen killer identity by the half hour mark then you shouldn not be watch anything that not pg 13 rat . and the anemic showdown between the survivor and the killer couldn not have be any less entertaining if it be film in slow motion . perhaps one day we will be able to see what graver really intend with moon in scorpio . but a it stand i be afraid that there be very little to recommend . don not bother hunt this one down .