La dama rossa uccide sette volte

Plot synopsis:
In the midst of a series of gruesome murders, a young woman is killed inside her suburban Miami house by a grey-haired, wild-eyed man. He stabs her in the eye and hacks her leg off with a machete, bagging the leg before he leaves. At the police station the next day, detective Pete Thornton investigates the killing, noting that it is the latest in a series of four murders by a homicidal maniac who has yet to leave any clues. The police chief advises him to continue to pursue the case.
At Fuad Ramses Catering store, wealthy socialite Dorothy Fremont arrives, where she arranges for Fuad to cater a party for her daughter Suzette. Fuad agrees and tells Mrs. Fremont that the Egyptian feast that he is preparing has not been served for over 5,000 years. Mrs. Fremont wants the catering done in two weeks, and Fuad assures her that he will have enough time to procure the last of his needed ingredients. After Mrs. Fremont leaves, Fuad ventures to the back storage room where he has displayed a large gold statue of his "Egyptian goddess" Ishtar. Fuad is preparing a "blood feast" – a huge vat containing the dead women's body parts – that will ensure the goddess's resurrection. That evening, teenagers Tony and Marcy make out on a nearby beach. Fuad attacks them, subduing Tony and slicing off the top of Marcy's head. He removes her brain to serve as the latest ingredient. Thornton arrives on the scene with the police chief. After failing to obtain any useful information from the distraught Tony, they interrogate Marcy's mother, who can only tell Pete that her daughter belonged to a book club.
Staking out a local motel, Fuad sees a drunken sailor drop his wife off at her room. Fuad knocks on the woman's door and attacks her when she opens it. Fuad rips the woman's tongue out through her throat as another ingredient to his "blood feast". Pete continues to investigate this latest killing, and discovers that the latest murder victim also belonged to a book club.
Pete attends his weekly Egyptian Studies lecture at the local university with his girlfriend, who happens to be Suzette. The lecturer tells them about the cult of Ishtar, and describes how virginal women were sacrificed to the goddess on an altar as a blood offering to the Egyptian goddess. When the lecture is over, Pete takes Suzette out for an evening drive. She becomes worried about the recent attacks and fears that a serial killer is loose in the area. Their date is interrupted by the car radio announcing that another victim has been found near death. Pete drops Suzette home and races to the hospital. The police chief informs him that the maniac has struck again and hacked off the face of another woman named Janet Blake. Pete questions Janet in her hospital bed. Her face bandaged, Janet tells the detectives that the man who attacked her was old, with wild eyes, and that he said something which sounded like "Etar". Janet then dies and Pete can't shake the feeling that this word sounds familiar. Fuad receives a letter from Trudy requesting a copy of the book Ancient Weird Religious Rites, written by Fuad Ramses. Fuad calls Trudy's home phone number and learns that she's staying with Suzette. That afternoon, Fuad stakes out the Fremont residence, kidnaps Trudy from the grounds and takes her to his store. He whips her savagely and collects her blood, the final ingredient in his bloody potion.
With Trudy missing, Mrs. Fremont insists that the party continue. Pete calls Suzette to inform her that he will be late. Meanwhile, Fuad arrives with the food that he has cooked at his store. Elsewhere, Pete calls upon the college lecturer and gets more information about the cult of Ishtar and Fuad's book. He deduces that Fuad is the killer, since all the victims were women who personally called upon him to send them copies of his book. Pete and the police race over to Fuad's store and find Trudy's chopped-up body in the back. Pete tries to call Suzette to warn her, but Fuad cuts the phone line to the Fremont house.
At the Fremont party, Fuad's meal is ready, but he first asks Suzette to come into the kitchen to help him. He has Suzette lie on a counter, which he makes his altar, and says a prayer to Ishtar as he prepares to decapitate her with his machete as a final offering to his goddess. This takes forever because she can't take him seriously. Dorothy Fremont interrupts Fuad just as he's about to decapitate Suzette, and Fuad escapes as the police arrive. Pete and the rest of the police chase Fuad through a nearby garbage dump, where he attempts to escape by climbing into the back of a departing garbage truck. The truck's compact blades turn on and Fuad is crushed to death. The police stop the truck, noting that there's not much left of Fuad. As Pete puts it, "He died a fitting end, just like the garbage he was."

Tags: cruelty, murder, cult, horror, violence, insanity, sadist

Review:
Once every hundred years, the events repeat themselves in this castle and a red lady kills six innocent victims before killing the black lady herself."The grandfather ends his tale by saying that according to the legend, sixteen years from now, the red queen should come again and kill seven times.
It's better for you to forget about logic (if you really analyse it, the story doesn't make sense) and just follow the film with its wonderful colors, the gorgeous women, the clothes, the tasteful decor, the lighting effects and the beautiful soundtrack.Enjoy Barbara Bouchet, Sybil Danning, Marina Malfatti, Pia Giancaro, among other goddesses.
Miraglia who, one year earlier, also made the very interesting "La Notte che Evelyn Usci della Tomba" (see also my comment on that one), the film starts off a little slow, but all in all, no time is wasted with unnecessary sub plots or sequences.This film is a German-Italian coproduction, but it was released in Germany on video only in a version trimmed by 15 minutes of plot under the stupid title "Horror House".
Miraglia's Giallo, Take Two. When two sisters inherit their family castle, a string of murders committed by a mysterious dark haired woman in a red cloak decimates their circle of friends.
This set-up gives the movie a slightly different angle to most others in the genre and Miraglia makes full use of both the Gothic and the giallo conventions.The plot is as complex as you should expect from these flicks.
An old painting shows two other warring sisters, the evil one being the dark haired Red Queen -a girl who returns from the dead every hundred years on murderous rampages.
Of course the little girls grow up and the Red Queen mysteriously appears and starts a series of killings.It has to be said that this film has a truly awesome killer.
Most original being death by fence pole, while the scene where someone is dragged through the streets by car was repeated several years later in Dario Argento's Deep Red. Aside from this, the cinematography is as lovely as you may expect from a film like this, with great widescreen compositions that make full use of both the Gothic locations as well as the modern interiors.
"The Red Queen Kills Seven Times" follows two sisters who are faced with apparent repercussions of a family curse after the death of their aristocrat grandfather.
After the prophecy comes true, a madwoman in a red cloak begins a killing spree in one of the sisters' lives, stalking the ancestral castle and mercilessly taking lives.The second and last effort of Emilio Miraglia after the brilliant Gothic "The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave," "The Red Queen Kills Seven Times" is a rather similar effort, but with slight modifications in both plot and tone.
Where "Evelyn" treaded supernatural Gothic territory, "Red Queen" is a bit more of a heavy-handed giallo that is shamelessly over-plotted and also far more violent.
Evoking the kind of giallos that Argento or Bava made in the 1970s, the film really takes its time working up elaborate murders and a faceless killer.Tonally, it is slightly different from Miraglia's preceding film in that it was shot exclusively in Germany, and very much has a Bavarian aesthetic, featuring a German-European castle setting, rolling forests, and small mountain villages as backdrops.
The finale is fantastically elaborate and the final reveal is thematically quite dark; there is an especially memorable scene set in a flooding underground chamber that really deserves some respect.Overall, "The Red Queen Kills Seven Times" is a solid effort, and does a fantastic job at juggling elements of the giallo with that of the Gothic thriller.
Emilio Miraglia's first Giallo feature, The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave, was a great combination of Giallo and Gothic horror - and this second film is even better!
Miraglia may be no Argento when it comes to spilling blood, but he certainly knows how to drop an over the top murder into his film; and here we have delights involving a Volkswagen Beetle, and a death on an iron fence that is one of my all time favourite Giallo death scenes.
A fascinating Giallo thriller from director Emilio Miraglia who returns to the genre after (The Night Evelyn Came Out Of The Grave), and delivers something well and truly special and presented in a psychedelic light, this little unknown gem is a wonderful example of the genre with malicious murders, red herrings and everything the Giallo type can muster and all presented in such a fluid direction.'The Red Queen Kills Seven Times' begins with 2 sisters Kitty and Evelyn who as children learn about a family curse that haunts The Widenbruck family every 100 years that a feud between two sisters ends in one of their deaths and the other one comes back as the Red Queen and kills seven people, before killing the remaining sister.
Then flash forward to 1972 where Kitty is now all grown up, and of course it seems that history is repeating itself with someone in a red cloak is murdering Kitty's friends, and Evelyn seems to be nowhere in sight, could it be her or has the ghost of the red queen come back for revenge.'The Red Queen' is a seriously loopy production that where it really strives is that it's unpredictable, there's a ruthless number of twists and turns and they all serve to up the stakes as people begin to get murdered one by one, the mystery surrounding the red queen is very intriguing, given the fact that she can kill and vanish without a trace is well and truly un-nerving and adds to the suspense and the overall supernatural feel to the production, this concept is not squander though as the director uses these to his advantage by incorporating creepy visuals and having everything filmed in a dream like fashion which proves startling at times and a killer draped in a red cloak and a long black wig is a treat for the eyes.
What allows this approach to work is the strong and memorable supporting characters such as Ugo Pagliai who does much of the heavy lifting as Martin Hoffman who gets swept up into the madness once he reveals his long standing attraction to Kitty, even though he may be a possible suspect within the cast, he does a wonderful job at playing detective like role as he delves deeper into the mystery of the red queen and the possible connection it has with his now estranged ex-wife whose locked away in an insane asylum, but is also a part of the mystery itself.So all in all without a doubt 'The Red Queen' is a definite highlight of Italian Cinema that takes all of the usual troupes and just runs with them and mixing it up with a supernatural angle just makes the whole thing worthwhile and sadly like many other great movies from this time period, this one seems to be forgotten which is a shame as this deserves to be viewed more by a wider audience as it's just a total thrill ride that has all the right ingredients..
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..
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.
Their grandfather tells them a legend about the painting, which involves the "Red Queen" coming to life every 100 years to kill seven people.One of the girls is apparently drowned by the other at some point early on as well - it cuts from her falling into water, to what looked like a doll like the one in the opening floating in the water.
An old family story told to two young girls by their grandfather is brought to life 16 years later as he foretold.People are getting murdered and blood is being spilled and rats are scampering all over and naked bodies are being enjoyed.Kitty (Barbara Bouchet) is the suspect, but we know she is not the killer.
La dama rossa uccide sette volte is a second Giallo from Emilio Miraglia which had disappeared after this movie without a trace,according the bonus they tried find out him but unfortunatelly pointlessly,a half dozen picture was made by Miraglia only,this one is a bit confusing plot to understand at first half hour,a third blondie girl as sister just come out from nowhere,maybe on purpose to blind the viewers, unusual strong in red colorful was deliberate photographed according the titlle, Bouchet didn't have such nudes scenes as did usually,otherwise the picture has a powerful gore's scenes,fine piece of giallo!!!Resume:First watch: 2018 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.
The Red Queen Kills Seven Times is a vintage 1970's thriller about a family curse, in which there are 7 murders every 100 years, committed by one of two sisters, who picks off 6 victims and the eventually kills the other sister.
But anyway, Barbara Bouchet plays Kitty, the leading lady in peril, who feels that her missing and deranged sister is replaying out the legend and killing multiple people, so she soon fears that she will become the 7th victim.The whole movie is a bit of a jumble of plot and events, as people close to or somehow linked to Kitty start to die horribly.
The movie does look good, thanks to the lovely actresses who appear in it, and there are some great shots of the "Red Queen" killer (in a long red cape, black hair and white face) dashing about the place.
As always mentioned the plot does get confusing at times, but then that's not unusual for giallo movies (repeated viewings can be beneficial).These films are often more concerned with the look & this one does not disappoint.
Miraglia followed up The Night Evelyn Came Out of Her Grave with this giallo freakout — starring the magnificent Barbara Bouchet (Don't Torture a Duckling) — that combines Gothic horror with the high fashion we've come to expect from early 70's Italian horror.A curse haunts the Wildenbrück family once every 100 years — two sisters have always become the Red and Black Queen, feuding until one of them dies.
And the film flirts between the Gothic castle era of Italian horror and the fashionista giallo look — all while containing plenty of deep red gore and plenty of skin, courtesy of a 20-year-old Sybil Danning (Howling II, Battle Beyond the Stars, Young Lady Chatterley 2).
Emilio Miragli's second (and final) film, "The Red Queen Kills Seven Times" is a little-seen gem of the giallo golden-age.
It's a shame Miragli fell completely off the map after making the film, as "The Red Queen Kills Seven Times," much like its mouthful of a title, is one for the ages.
Emilio Miraglia only directed a handful of films throughout his career (though he was more prolific as an assistant to the likes of Luciano Salce, Carlo Lizzani and Lucio Fulci), the two films he made between 1971 and 1972 - The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave and The Red Queen Kills 7 Times - stand out most of all.
When people start dying, murdered by a manic woman in red, has Evelyn returned from beyond the grave as the Red Queen or is something even more sinister at play?When the movie finished, I was left wondering how such a convoluted build-up could lead to such an easily-explained mystery, but that's the beauty of giallo and The Red Queen itself.
Miraglia's earlier Giallo, "The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave" (1971) was already a creepy and highly atmospheric film which successfully mixed Giallo with Gothic Horror, but it couldn't possibly compare to this instant personal favorite.
"The Red Queen Kills Seven Times" is, hands down, one of the most unique and overwhelming Italian Horror films ever made, and no lover of the genre could possibly consider missing it.
An incredibly mesmerizing Giallo with strong Gothic elements, "The Red Queen" delivers everything one could hope for in either sub-genre: An inventive and incredibly compelling plot, spine-chilling suspense, a sublimely uncanny setting and a genuinely creepy atmosphere, eerily lush colors, stylish murders, a brilliant score, and, not least, a ravishing female cast lead by the stunningly beautiful Barbara Bouchet - this film simply is one of the most outstanding combinations of elegant beauty and pure terror.The film starts out incredibly in a beautiful Gothic castle in Germany.
As little girls, Kitty Wildenbrück and her sister Evelyn have been fighting when their grandfather tells them the story behind an incredibly uncanny painting: Legend has it that a fiendish Red Lady is to return to the castle every hundred years and kill seven people.
"The Red Queen Kills Seven Times" is a feast for the eyes indeed, and one of the most overwhelming Italian Horror films both visually and plot-wise.
Apart from the wonderful Miss Bouchet, the film's gorgeous female cast includes sexy young Sybil Danning, Marina Malfatti ("The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave"), and other beauties who are not afraid to bare it for the camera.
Emilio Miraglia's "The Red Queen Kills Seven Times" is a totally mesmerizing wholesome of original plotting, stylish production values, enchanting music, great acting talents and inventively gory murder sequences.
Emilio Miraglia's "Red Queen Kills 7 Times" is a more entertaining affair than his previous giallo, "The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave".
Emilio Miraglio's "The Red Queen Kills Seven Times" (1972) is just about the most perfect example of a giallo that I have ever seen, mixing all the requisite elements into one sinister stew indeed.
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..
After being let down by Miraglia's more popular THE NIGHT EVELYN CAME OUT OF THE GRAVE (1971), I didn't know quite what to expect from this one; however, its upcoming LE DVD release from No Shame (featuring the "Red Queen Action Figure" no less!) - coupled with EVELYN - made it essential that I check it out via this rare TV screening.As it turned out - and as was the case with EVELYN itself - the film was slightly cut: even though I've never watched it before, the editing during Barbara Bouchet's rape sequence was rather choppy, which made it obvious that some trims had been applied (though a number of other nude scenes appear to be intact!).
The killer, The Red Queen, is one of the most over-the-top and interesting looking murderers I've seen in an Italian movie.
For those familiar with these types of films, THE LADY IN RED KILLS SEVEN TIMES is even more incomprehensible than most movies, as a mysterious killer named Evelyn slaughters her way through much of the cast – and, get this, she's dead!
I first got this confused with the director's other giallo, THE NIGHT EVELYN CAME OUT OF THE GRAVE, the title of which perfectly describes the events in this movie, but rest assured they are two separate films.
However, events seem to emulate the old family curse in which, every hundred years, the 'Red Queen' is raised from the dead to kill seven times.