Moon Child (1974)

Moon Child (1974)

I wish there was more information on this movie. From what I can tell, director writer Alan Gadney made this one film and never did another. Most of the actors were TV preformers from the early 1970's including such names as Victor Buono and John Carradine. Though to be a lost film, it has been showing up on VHS over the past ten years. I will give it a first: the only movie I can think of which begins and ends with a quote from Edgar Cayce.
The plot: a young artist encounters an elderly man (Carradine) while painting a picture of an old Spanish mission. The old man encourages him to visit the mission, which has now been transformed into an elegant hotel. In the hotel he meets a variety of strange people, each of whom seem to know something about his past. It all has to do with a crime committed centuries ago which is about to cycle through the ages once again.
Too low budget and scary for the art house crowd, too artsy for the gore hounds, this is still a good example of the kind of film cinema graduates would attempt in the early 70's. A lot of colleges were just sending out film school kids into the world in this time and some of them were making a stab at fame. There would be those in the mold of George Lucas who would find success, and others, such as the obscure director of Moon Child, who would make one film and vanish into history.
Pop this one in after viewing The Idaho Transfer.


"Without mercy, a man is not a human being." Sansho the Bailiff, 1954