Best movie ever!

Absolutely Fantastic

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

If you want to see a film that epitomises the gialli, you can't do better than this one. It's a whodunit split between an old castle and a hip fashion agency, full of Euro-babes, garish colour schemes and mental interior design, daft twists, and doesn't skimp on the blood and boobs either. The plot is fairly mental too. We being with two nine-year old sister fighting over a doll and ending up under a picture in the huge castle they live in. The dark haired sister goes nuts and starts stabbing the doll to death, explaining that every time she looks at the picture, she feels a bit strange. The girls' granddad then goes onto explain that the picture is of The Red Queen being killed by The Black Queen, and that the Red Queen comes back every (can't remember) years to kill seven people, the next time being 1972, when these two will be Euro-babes!Well, one of them is anyway. Turns out sister Kitty (Barbara Bouchet) apparently killed her sister Evelyn by accident the year before, but that's okay, because her other sister Francisca and her husband helped hide her in the rubber bat filled cellar of the castle and are keeping it a secret. But if Evelyn is dead, who is it that is running around in a red robe, cackling like a nutter and causing the old granddad to have a heart attack?Director Miralgia mixes the usual giallo plot (unknown killer doing in Euro Babes) with the Gothic castle film, and adds in a bit of the old 'Who gets the Inheritance' for good measure. He keeps things fairly quickly too, which is a bit confusing at first due to everyone's complicated relationships. For example, Kitty is going out with Martin, who has a wife in the loony bin, who claims that she's being visited by Evelyn at night, but then Kitty's being hassled by Evelyn's ex-boyfriend who suspects she's not 'living in America' at all! Thank God the killer starts thinning out the ranks a little.While using an expensive looking knife, there were two bits that made me cringe as the violence level went through the roof - when one victim is pulled onto some railings, causing their jugular to spout an alarming amount of seventies blood, and when the killer traps a guy's jacket in the door of the car and drives up the street until he's a bloody mess. I was a bit 'wait...run that by me again' at the eventual explanation for all this, but this is one of the greats for me. From the director of The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave, which also has a character called Evelyn...doing something or other.

One of the finest and most stylish gialli of early 70's "The Red Queen Kills 7 Times" by Emilio Miraglia tells the story of legend of The Red Queen who stabbed her sister(The Black Green)and six other innocent victims because she herself was earlier stabbed to death by Black Lady.This family curse happens every 100 years since 1772.There is a truly memorable and haunting femme killer in "The Red Queen Kills 7 Times":a red-caped black-haired beauty who stabs her victims to death via ancient dagger.Very stylish and colorful Italian giallo with lovely Barbara Bouchet and almost unrecognizable Sybil Danning.Plenty of nudity and some graphic murders including nasty death via iron fence.Fantastic soundtrack by Bruno Nicolai.It's a crying shame that "The Red Queen Kills 7 Times" was the last film of obviously talented Emilio Miraglia.8 red flowing gowns out of 10.

The director Miraglia is known for another flick in the genre, The Night Evelyn Came Out Of The Grave. I guess he must love the name Evelyn because here he uses that name again. And it's a really good flick. I should qualify it under Giallo. But what a mistake it was to put in the DVD. Before you get the start button you are introduced to the flick by showing all the killings. What a mistake. But the movie itself wasn't a mistake. It do has some nice killings and the red stuff do flows and it contains a lot of gratuitous nudity. For me it was one of the better giallos' seen, it's so weird that I mostly don't dig Argento's ones but this s flick surely did. One you must have in your giallo collection.

As children, sisters Evelyn and Kitty Wildenbrück are told a chilling family legend by their grandfather: every hundred years, The Red Queen, a Wildenbrück woman who has been murdered by her sister, will return from the dead to claim seven victims.Fourteen years later, after her grandfather dies, Kitty (Barbara Bouchet) begins to wonder if there was some truth in the old man's crazy tale: people in her acquaintance have started to be murdered, and witnesses claim that the killer not only wears red, but also looks a lot like her sister Evelyn—whose corpse lies hidden deep under the Wildenbrück castle, having been accidentally killed by Kitty during an argument!!!A 70s giallo from director Emilio Miraglia, The Red Queen Kills 7 Times not only has one hell of a crazy story (a prerequisite of the genre), but also packs in plenty of female nudity and the occasional bit of bloodletting. However, despite being an admirer of the genre (and a big fan of gratuitous T&A and gore), I wasn't overly impressed by this effort, finding the plot too convoluted to follow at times (even for a giallo), the killer too easy to identify, and the ending rather rushed.On the positive side, Bouchet is gorgeous (as are her co-stars Pia Giancaro and Sybil Danning), the deaths are frequent (with the highlight being a juicy impalement on a fence), the score is great, the cinematography lovely, and, for sleaze fans, there is even a drug-dealing rapist to bring down the tone of the film a couple of notches.I give The Red Queen Kills 7 Times a rating of 6 out of 10, although it very nearly got a 7, for featuring cinema's largest pair of pentagonal glasses (as sported by Ms. Giancaro), and a cop who looks like Borat.