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Wonderful character development!

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best movie i've ever seen.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

MOONCHILD has got to be one of the weirdest "horror" movies I've ever had the pleasure(?) of watching. Borderline incoherent for a majority of its run time, this movie is essentially what most people picture when you ask them to imagine a strange, pretentious student art film (which it actually is). I mean, it opens with a quote from Edgar Cayce! But there's a sort of raw, attractive weirdness to MOONCHILD, the kind of feeling you get watching a movie that the director obviously poured his heart and soul into. The maker of this movie was clearly reaching for great heights, and even if he didn't quite get there, it's pretty admirable what he did manage.The plot of MOONCHILD is from the same basic mold as "The Reincarnation of Peter Proud" and "The Search for Joseph Tully". In my opinion it's better than the former but worse than the latter. A young man (the "Moonchild", or "Gavallan" as we eventually learn) is under some curse where his soul continually reincarnates (conveniently looking identical in every life) and is drawn to a certain hotel where he is judged, harassed, prodded and put on trial for a trivial "crime" by an array of cryptic and weird people that populate the hotel, who are all based on people who he knew in his original life. Our protagonist is the seventh incarnation of this poor sap so far. I've always liked reincarnation as a subject in film and theme of being held hostage by the past, so I found the plot genuinely intriguing. The problem is, we don't learn the truth until near the end of the film, so most of it is just Gavallan wandering around the hotel encountering bizarre strangers who speak cryptic riddles at him. The fact that all the dialogue is basically in code and doesn't make sense at all until you know the truth of who the main character is a little tiresome. The film is beautifully shot, at least in the outdoor sequences. Indoor shots have a problem with murkiness. The color palette is muted and in the version I watched everything had a green tinge, which I'm not sure was intentional. The old mission/hotel that the movie is set in is lovely and I'm curious if any other movies were shot there or if it even still exists. In all, MOONCHILD is a movie I'd only really recommend to fans of the weird, cryptic and artsy, but I would definitely recommend it to those people. It's bizarre and rough around the edges, but that's part of what gives it its out-there charm.

A young artists spends the night at a mysterious inn, where he meets a group of strange, sullen people, among them the innkeeper's beautiful daughter.What he doesn't know is that he has wandered into a kind of spiritual void, and the inn's residents are engaging in a battle over his soul. Very odd 70's film saved in a way by a nice walk through by John Carradine and some very artsy and surreal direction. Supposedly filmed in Riverside, CA, the sets are very interesting as well.The print I saw held up very well. Color still popped.This is the only movie the director ever made. He started it as a student film. Apparently th film did not do well when released but in recent years it has become a cult item.Gadley also edited a student film of George Lucas. That's it. Sad there is not more information about him. He clearly was in school to get into the picture business and made an interesting first film, yet nothing exists about him. At the time I write this IMDb user are giving this an average of 2.2 stars! That's a disconnect. It's definitely way better than that.

A young man (The Moon Child) is reincarnated every 25 years, with each life ending in a stay at a mission hotel. There he meets characters from his first life, all of whom are doomed to relive their roles in his life (and death) as well. The cycle will end when his spirit reaches a state of perfection by purging its negative (violent) impulses. Actor John Carradine is The Walker of The World, an otherworldly poet who is there to observe, and record for posterity, the proceedings.Supposedly this was shot as a student film. I find that hard to believe considering the impressive cast. This film is not going to wow you, but it sure does deserve a better than 2.0 rating that it currently has here on IMDb. And certainly deserves to re-discovered for a cult following.It's well filmed and very strange in a compelling sort of way. It's shocking that the director never worked again! Wish there was more info on him somewhere. He was talented. Even if this movie wasn't a hit, the directing alone -- as a student film -- should have gotten him offers. Hell, David Lunch went on to make a movies after that Eraserhead which put me to sleep!It's so well filmed (even if you can see the boom mike shadow in a scene or two). The framing is spot on and the color is superb.It's a weird surreal trippy film. Give it a chance.

I sat through this preponderant ayahuasca head-trip twice, and I'm still rather unresolved with my feelings about it. The story, while not at all uninteresting, is extremely vague(and probably deliberately so). As I see it, a deceased killer's soul is forever damned to seek lodging in an incommunicado mission-style villa, tenanted by an odd assemblage of necromantic characters. It's a bizarre Hell in which he's forever bound to perpetually relive one brief sequence from his mortal existence. I personally found the quizzical exposition of MOONCHILD intriguing, though these fustian art-house ambitions result in a drastically muddled narrative and exegesis. The film is further injured by lengthy torpid stretches, and a passively limned central character who's overshadowed effortlessly by the veteran support players. I appreciate the creative vitality which fuels experimental cinema, and I did find a unique polestar to this project. One chief debilitation, however, is the dizzyingly inchoate illustration of an umbilical concept that's already quite abstract. This eccentric stagecrafting gives rise to a vaporous psychedelic quality which might appeal to the cannabis clique...a rank-and-file viewership, on the other hand, will likely be left in a fog.5.5/10