The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave
The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave is a 1971 film from Italy, directed by Emilio Miraglia, running 98 minutes. reelscum files it under giallo and euro-gothic.
- Year
- 1971 · 1970s films
- Country
- Italy
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Director
- Emilio Miraglia
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (44/100)
- Also known as
- The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave
Defined in the glossary: Giallo, Euro-gothic
A widower lures redheads to his castle to get over his dead wife. Nonsense plot, glorious mood.
Emilio Miraglia's specialty was the gothic giallo, the crumbling-estate ghost story with a rational swindle hidden inside it, and this is his signature. A lord fresh out of the asylum, unhinged by grief for his dead red-haired wife Evelyn, invites red-haired women out to his rotting castle and does not let them leave, until he remarries and the late Evelyn appears to climb out of her tomb. Whether she is a revenant or a con aimed at the family fortune is the whole game, and the plumbing that connects the twists is loud and creaky. What holds it together is atmosphere: fog, a mausoleum, Bruno Nicolai's score, Erika Blanc rising out of a coffin mid-striptease. Watch it for the mood and forgive the machinery.
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