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Once upon a time in a castle...... Two little girls are playing in the garden's castle. They are sisters. A blonde little girl (Kitty) and a brunette one (Evelyn). Evelyn steals Kitty's doll. Kitty pursues Evelyn. Running through long corridors, they reach the room where their grandfather, sitting on an armchair, reads the newspaper. Kitty complains about Evelyn, while Evelyn is looking interestedly at a picture hanging on the wall. Evelyn begins to say repeatedly: "I am the red lady and Kitty is the black lady". Suddenly Evelyn grabs a dagger lying nearby and stabs Kitty's doll and then cuts her (the doll's) head. A fight ensues. And Evelyn almost uses the dagger against Kitty. The grandfather intervenes and the worst is avoided.

Later on, their grandfather tells them the legend related to the picture hanging on the wall in front of them, in which a lady dressed in black is stabbing a lady dressed in red:

"A long time ago, a red lady and a black lady lived in the same castle. They were sisters and hated each other. One night, for jealousy reasons, the black lady entered the red lady's room and stabbed her seven times. One year later, the red lady left her grave. She killed six innocent people, and her seventh victim was the black lady. 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. But he assures them that this is just an old legend.

Sixteen years pass.....

This is the very beginning of the film. There are many twists and surprises in the film. 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. There's a nude by Sybil Danning lying on a sofa that's something to dream about. And don't forget: The lady in red kills seven times!

If you've liked "La Dama Rossa..." check out also "La Notte che Evelyn uscì dalla Tomba".

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. Is the killer their ancestor, the "Red Queen" whom legend says claims seven lives every hundred years?

This was Emilio Miraglia's follow-up to "The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave". Barbara Bouchet stars, making 1972 a good year for her -- she was also in the highly praised Fulci film "Don't Torture a Duckling". With her is "Evelyn" holdover Marina Malfatti who was also having a god year -- she was in Sergio Martino's "All the Colors of the Dark". Supporting them is Marino Masé, who appeared in even bigger films -- "The Leopard" and "Nightmare Castle", to name a couple. Lastly, Sybil Danning has a smaller early role here -- today (2016) she is probably the best-known of the cast due to her transition into American films.

Composer Bruno Nicolai, another holdover from "Evelyn", really ties the film together. He had done many, many films but I would say this is probably among his best work. Unfortunately, aside from "Caligula", he never seems to have risen above Italian B-movies, even if he was in the same league talent-wise as Ennio Morricone.

Luca Palmerini, no fan of Miraglia, dismisses this film as "mediocre". While it may not be groundbreaking or on the level of the masters (Fulci, Bava, Argento), for me, an average giallo is better than most horror films any day of the week. There is just something about the style and use of color that remains unmatched in American movies. And Palmerini fails to notice the striking villain (one of the most memorable of the giallo genre) and the clever blend of giallo and Gothic that seems to be the defining trait of Miraglia.

Arrow Video hired both Alan Jones and Kim Newman to provide an audio commentary for their masterful blu-ray disc. The two tag team the commentary expertly, and either could have done it alone. But together? It is incredible.

This interesting Giallo boosts a typical but still thrilling plot and a really sadistic killer that obviously likes to hunt his victims down before murdering them in gory ways.

Directed by Emilio P. 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". At least the murder scenes, which will satisfy every gorehound, are fully intact, and the viewer still gets the killer's motive at the end. But the Italian version containing all the footage is still the one to look for, of course.

A convincing Giallo with obligatory twists and red herrings, "La Dama Rossa Uccide Sette Volte" is highly recommended to Giallo fans and slightly superior to Miraglia's above mentioned other thriller.

"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. The legend has it that every hundred years, two sisters in the family bloodline will fight, resulting in the murder of one. 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. It is an atmospheric film, and in Miraglia's fashion, is oriented toward the Gothic.

As I mentioned, the film is a bit zany in terms of plot, and throws curveball after curveball without pause, so it is a film that demands its audience's attention in order to make sense of what is happening on screen. Barbara Bouchet and Marina Malfatti (returning from Miraglia's previous film) have the lead roles, and are both very good. 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. It is a far less supernaturally-oriented film than Miraglia's "Evelyn," and it is also more extensively plotted. The unabashed twists and turns do become a bit redundant and exhausting along the way, but the finale is a nice payoff to an otherwise atmospheric thriller. The killer's red cloak (perhaps a foresight for "Don't Look Now"?) and menacing cackle are also not to be dismissed. 7/10.

Sometimes confusing plot about two beautiful sisters, a German castle, an inheritance & a series of grisly murders being committed by a mysterious killer cloaked in a red cloak. 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. Nicely & stylish filmed, great soundtrack, beautiful women & some gruesome murders, though they aren't as gory as some other giallos. What I really liked was that it added a lot of gothic horror - much of it takes place inside the castle - and also that there is less emphasis on the police investigation, which I feel can drag some films down. There are better giallo movies, there are also worse but this is a good example & well worth watching.

In THE RED QUEEN KILLS SEVEN TIMES, a family curse puts everyone at risk every one hundred years, when the titular entity apparently goes on a killing spree. This is to avenge the Queen's own untimely demise at the hand of her sister. At least, that's how the legend goes.

Now, the Wildenbruck family -some of whom have dark secrets to hide- has gathered for the reading of their patriarch's will. Very quickly, people are stalked and killed by a laughing, red-cloaked maniac. Has the Red Queen returned once more to seek her vengeance? As the murders continue, Kitty Wildenbruck (Barbara Bouchet) grows increasingly concerned, and for good reason.

TRQK7x is a masterful giallo with a lot of gothic horror overtones. Co-stars the magnificent Sybil Danning as Lulu Palm...

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. Which is a bit of a convoluted legend. 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. There's also a fairly spectacular castle setting with suitable creepy rooms and dungeons. The explanation is almost impossible to piece together, but at least it's something you couldn't really figure out!

The prologue is also important as it shows how Kitty (as a child) first learned about the legend, and we get to hear the improbable story, as well as see a ridiculously gory painting which the family have deemed suitable to be hung in full view on a wall! Sadly, what doesn't work is the English dub, which is dreadful and it especially hampers this prologue, because the only thing worse than bad dubbing is bad dubbing of children, and here it's excruciating. There is a fair bit of gore, but the blood looks like tomato soup and there are no really good effects to be seen. However it's all energetic and well paced, and there is a lot of topless female nudity to keep the male audience members entertained. Worth a look.

The title of this solid murder mystery from co-writer / director Emilio P. Miraglia deals with a legend surrounding the well-off Wildenbruck family. Every hundred years, the title character will claim seven victims. The current generation of Wildenbrucks consists of sisters played by Barbara Bouchet (as Kitty) and Marina Malfatti (as Franziska). Kitty is a high-fashion photographer whose circle of friends begin to be butchered by a cackling dark haired woman wearing a red cloak. And this woman would seem to be Kitty's long estranged sister Eveline, but Kitty knows that this cannot be the case.

Miraglia is good at storytelling as well as cinematic flair, giving us an engrossing mystery that offers up enough red herrings to keep things interesting. But, just like any good giallo, it delivers plenty of eye candy - of both the cinematic kind and the human female kind - to add to the presentation and make it quite watchable, even if anybody watching figures things out ahead of time. It just barely sort of flirts with the supernatural, with little surreal touches here and there, and is largely grounded in reality...albeit a stylized, sexualized reality. It can also boast a typically lovely Bruno Nicolai soundtrack; casual viewers may not recognize his name, but he deserves to be as well known as Ennio Morricone, one of the major legends of film music (Italian and otherwise).

The acting is good from the cast; there are some very handsome men and some positively gorgeous women among them. Bouchet is an engaging lead, and Ugo Pagliai is her likeable leading man. Marino Mase is excellent as the dedicated police inspector - what giallo would be complete without this sort of stock character? Rudolf Schundler is a delight as the concerned grandfather who gives us some back story, and B movie goddess Sybil Danning can be seen (clothed and unclothed) as a saucy character named Lulu Palm.

The kills are sure to satisfy gore lovers, and if you're an admirer of this genre, you'll be intrigued by the way that Miraglia switches between a traditional Gothic setting (the family castle) and the modern urban environment. One highlight is when a victim is dragged to their death by a car after their jacket gets caught in the car door.

The sixth, and sadly final, directorial outing for Miraglia, who'd been a script supervisor and assistant director for many years; previously he'd done another giallo, the equally lauded "The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave".

Seven out of 10.

This was the second giallo Emilio Miraglia directed after the previous year's The Night Evelyn Came Out Of The Grave. In fact it was the last movie he ever directed. On the evidence of this film that is a criminal waste because The Red Queen Kills 7 Times really is a terrific giallo. Like its predecessor, this one mixes the giallo format with neo-Gothic elements; in this case an old castle replete with a crypt populated with rats and bats, as well as a legend about an evil supernatural killer. This Gothic material is combined with a super-chic contemporary setting, where we have a fashion house populated with a selection of gorgeous girls. 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. It is basically about two sisters who grow up in a castle. 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. The Red Queen has to be one of the greatest cinematic serial killers ever conceived. This sexy black haired woman in flowing red gown and scary voice is a very inspired creation indeed. She commits a series of murders of course. They aren't the most graphic of killings but they are very varied. 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. And last but certainly not least there is an assortment of gorgeous Euro actresses to savour. Barbara Bouchet leads the picture and, as always, is phenomenal; sexy and sympathetic, she truly was one of the very best actresses working in Italy in the 70's. Also of particular note is Sybil Danning as a bad girl femme fatale.

For Euro cult viewers you just cannot go wrong here. It's definitely a very memorable entry in the giallo sub-genre.

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. Although the two films are pretty recognisable titles to any giallo enthusiast, Miraglia's name hardly echoes throughout the annals of the genre, most likely down to his slim body work as it certainly isn't down a lack of quality.

The premise of The Red Queen is giallo at its most gleefully ludicrous. While the film is mostly a gory thriller, there are elements of Gothic with its cobwebbed, desolate mansion setting during the opening scenes. A dying grandfather tells two of his granddaughters of the tale behind the gruesome painting overlooking his death-bed, of one sister ('The Red Queen') who stabbed and murdered the other sister ('The Black Queen'). This cycle repeats itself every 100 years, due again in 1972. When the dreaded year comes, the grown up Kitty (Barbara Bouchet) works as a fashion photographer and believes that her sister Evelyn died in a freak accident years ago. 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. The infusion of Gothic undertones peppered throughout the film only add to the fun of the piece, although its feet lie firmly in its pulpy paperback roots. Complete with impressively staged, gory set-pieces, this adds pretty much every element of the genre into the mix - the world of high fashion photography, beautiful, big-eyed women, a gruff detective, and plenty of sexual deviancy. So, it offers little in the way of originality, but it's certainly a lot of fun (the scene with the fence spike is a cracker). See it for the bonkers plot and ghostly, Hammer-esque sets if nothing else.

Bottom-of-the-barrel giallo trash of the lowest order.

Even the smallest things that make some of the better gialli somewhat watchable (despite this sub-genre's constant inadequacies) are missing in this thoroughly idiotic outing that's also quite lame in the gore and shock department.

The culprit's identity is not just obvious, but completely irrelevant to even the most lowbrow spectator, since the crude and muddleheaded story and lazy direction make sure that any interest about the outcome wanes early on.

1 out of 10 lethal stabbings

When I saw the elaborate DVD box for this and the dreadful Red Queen figurine, I felt certain I was in for a big disappointment, but surprise, surprise, I loved it. Convoluted nonsense of course and unforgivable that such a complicated denouement should be rushed to the point of barely being able to read the subtitles, let alone take in the ridiculous explanation. These quibbles apart, however, the film is a dream. Fabulous ladies in fabulous outfits in wonderful settings and the whole thing constantly on the move and accompanied by a wonderful Bruno Nicolai score. He may not be Morricone but in these lighter pieces he might as well be so. Really enjoyable with lots of colour, plenty of sexiness, some gory kills and minimal police interference. Super.

The siblings Kitty (Barbara Bouchet) and Evelyn Wildenbrück hate each other since they were children. They live in the old castle of their grandfather Tobias Wildenbrück (Rudolf Schindler) and one day they learn that there is a legend that their family is cursed. Every one-hundred years, one sister dies and returns to life killing seven persons and the other sister is her last victim. When they are older, they have a disagreement and Kitty accidentally kills Evelyn during a fight. However, their sister Franziska Wildenbrück (Marina Malfatti) and her husband Herbert Zieler (Nino Korda) hide Evelyn´s body in a room in the dungeons of the castle. Then they tell to Tobias and to the locals that Evelyn has moved to the United States of America. When Tobias has a heart attack and dies, the lawyer reads his will to Kitty, Franziska and Herbert and explains that they have to wait for one year to learn how they will inherit his fortune. Kitty continues to work at the fashion design company Springe, where she is photographer, and her boyfriend Martin Hoffmann (Ugo Pagliai) is the vice-director. Meanwhile a red cloaked woman that looks like Evelyn is killing acquaintances of Kitty and Martin and they are the prime suspect of the Police Inspector (Marino Masé) that is investigating the case.

"La dama rossa uccide sette volte", a.k.a. "The Red Queen Kills Seven Times", is an entertaining giallo with absurd plot point. The screenplay does not develop Franziska and Herbert that appear in the story. Giallos usually have at least a twist in the end to surprise the view, but this one is extremely unreasonable. However the deaths are great. But anyway it is worthwhile watching this film that keeps the tension until the ending. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "A Rainha Vermelha Mata 7 Vezes" ("The Red Queen Kills Seven Times")

This giallo has a lot of the typical qualities that you normally associate with the genre: unbelievably jerky and jittery editing, very bad dubbing, a story that keeps you guessing all the way but storytelling so confusing that ultimately the film makes almost no sense. Interesting in spite of all that, but mainly for genre buffs. (**)

I've not been too impressed with the Giallo subgenre thus far, mainly because I have been watching mostly Lucio Fulci, who I consider a very, very poor filmmaker. I had set my expectations low for this movie, expecting a simple slasher set in a spooky castle. It delivered on this promise, and a lot more too.

Rival sisters Kitty and Evelyn (blonde and brunette) are cursed to hate each other as the 100-year cycle of the Red Queen legend is about to come around. For centuries, their ancestral castle home has seen one sister possessed by the spirit of the Red Queen who will murder six arbitrary victims before killing her own sibling. Believing the curse to be nonsense, the girls go their separate ways until Kitty is brought back to the castle after their sudden death of her grandfather. Rumor has it that the Red Queen is responsible.

And so plays out an interesting and clever whodunnit with atmospheric photography, nice locations and sets, a decent score (certainly by today's standards) and some brutal 1970s fashions. The deaths are sudden and shocking without being exploitative, and the visual of the Red Queen herself is both mysterious and intriguing - a horror villain that has gone unappreciated. I'm surprised that no sequels or remakes were ever made. I freakin' LOVE that title too. I would purchase the rights to this movie just to re-use the title, never mind remake it.

Is it just me or is Barbara Bouchet and EXACT double of Laura Linney at the same age?

A good Giallo flick and one of my favorites so far.

Murder mystery giallo - or something along those lines. One thing is for sure, you have to like this kind of thing, otherwise you won't have a good time at all. This is quite "bonkers", with lots of red blood (the red you only get to see in 70s movies) and nudity too. Also a lot of story lines or threads that never really get explored.

It also has quite the nice set pieces. Not all make sense I reckon, but they look good. As do the women in this - if you are into them that is. Having said that, a lot of red herrings in this! It works quite well - and the twist is nice, even if predictable for some ...

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. All of these elements are handled beautifully with a solid plot with many clever plot twists and turns and moves along at a brisk pace with a wonderful score by Bruno Nicoladi that hits all the right notes, along with violence that is very sadistic and bloody with some great set pieces and perfectly balances the back story with what's going on in the present.

Barbara Rouchet tackles the character of Kitty with a timid manner and passive outlook, who doesn't do much but lay on the sympathetic charm and attempts to stay sane and alive and in that simple presentation she allows her outrageous beauty and overall appearance to take centre stage and shine, she may not be the type of character to take charge of the narrative onward, but is more like a tormented deer caught in the headlights, reacting to the situations that are going on around her. But that is a staple of the genre and it is used very effectively here. 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.

I didn't see an ideal DVD of this movie. The one I saw came from Luminous, and was taken from a Greek video, dubbed in English with Greek subtitles. The picture is a bit on the dim and dirty side. The pre-credits sequence has a horizontal line running through it, and all throughout the movie skips frames. Additionally, the picture occasionally rolls. Lousy.

The title refers partly to a painting shown in the beginning of the movie, of a woman in black stabbing a woman in red. (It's a neat painting, anyone have a copy?) Two little girls fight over a doll, and one of them stabs and decapitates the doll! 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. Some years later, the grandfather dies, and his granddaughters will be due an inheritance. Other people start dying too, and the description of the killer matches the red queen, as well as someone who should be dead.

I found the ending a bit confusing. A curse is mentioned, and I'm not sure it had been mentioned before (I think it is different than the Red Queen legend).

I enjoyed the movie even though the print was not ideal. Hopefully a better release of this will become available, in which case I'd like to give it another viewing.

Unnecessary sexual assault on main character. Male love interest is an adulterer. So, no happy endings or success, or resolution.

Outside of those, it would have been great. But I can't like it with those.

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.

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 comes 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!!!

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First watch: 2018 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7

(1972) The Red Queen Kills Seven Times/ La dama rossa uccide sette volte (In Italian with English subtitles) HORROR/ THRILLER

Another Giallo slasher film, co-written and directed by Emilio Miraglia, with the intro involving two sisters of Kitty Wildenbrück (Barbara Bouchet) and Evelyn/ Franziska Wildenbrück (Marina Malfatti) who are at odds with one another and had been fighting and arguing since they were little. Both live with their grandfather in a castle with Evelyn confessing being drawn to a painting up on the wall of a sister attempting to stab another sister with a knife. And he explains the urban legend to the two young girls regarding the curse that's supposed to have transpired to the family for every one-hundred years that started when a "Black Queen stabs and kills the Red Queen and are sisters as well who are at odds with one other. When one sister kills the other, the other sister comes back to life to killing seven more with her sister being the last one.