Italian Horror Blogathon: The Red Queen Kills Seven Times (aka La dama rossa uccide sette volte, Blood Feast)
The previous two years I’ve done this blogathon I’ve always
wanted to make sure that I had time to see something that I haven’t seen or
heard of before. The first year I did this blogathon it was Pupi Avati’s The House with the Laughing Windows; the
second year it was Francesco Barilli’s The
Perfume of the Lady in Black. This year I wanted to make sure I had time
for Emilio Miraglia’s The Red Queen Kills
Seven Times. Boy, am I glad I made time for this gem. Miraglia’s film is a
masterpiece of the genre; something akin to the best of Bava. A hybrid Gothic
horror picture/giallo, The Red Queen Kills Seven Times is a
prime example of why I love this subgenre so much: there’s always some kind of
gem like this unearth.
