My review was written in January 1988 after watching the movie on TWE video cassette.
"Moon in Scorpio" is a ridiculous attempt at a thriller, combining three sets of separate footage (plus stock footage) into an indigestible whole. TWE quietly released the pic to video stores last year.
Original intent undoubtedly was to fashion yet another unwanted film about a Vietnam vet suffering oodles of angst over his war guilt. Accompanied by horrendously phony reenactment footage of war atrocities in a California forest area plus poor stock footage, John Phillip Law is the sufferer.
Gary Graver, who has several differnet careers as cinematographer, director and Adult filmmaker, is credited with the principal footage and it is very dreary. Perhaps he was aiming at his late mentor Orson Welles' "Lady from Shanghai" or unfinished "The Deep" in the central motif of a group of scabrous individuals traped on a yacht together, as part of a wedding gift to Law and his bride Britt Ekland.
In any event, Fred Olen Ray and finally Alan Amiel were brought in to try and save the picture. Result is a lot of extraneous footage, some of it lamely building a cover story involving an escaped lunatic who slashes various people to death including most of the cast of Graver's film; round-table discussions by shrink Robert Quarry (playing Dr. Horda, his character name from Ray Danton's 1972 film "The Deathmaster") and his associates James Booth and Donna Kei Ben; or idiotic voice-over by Ekland matched with additional footage of her interviewed by Quarry. End result is risible, with exposition spoon fed and reinforced repetitiously to the viewer, who is assumed to be brain-dead.
Technical credits are poor, and the cast is awful, particularly hammy Ekland, and, in undoubtedly his worst performance, William Smith. Graver's starlet (from his "Party Camp" pic) April Wayne is embarrassing.
