The Red Queen Kills Seven Times
The Red Queen Kills Seven Times is a 1972 film from West Germany and Italy, directed by Emilio Miraglia, running 98 minutes. reelscum files it under giallo.
- Year
- 1972 · 1970s films
- Country
- West Germany · Italy
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Director
- Emilio Miraglia
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (37/100)
- Also known as
- The Lady in Red Kills Seven Times · Cry of a Prostitute: Love Kills · The Corpse Which Didn't Want to Die · The Red Queen Kills 7 Times · Feast of Flesh
Defined in the glossary: Giallo
A family curse, a killer in a red cloak, and a legend that kills every hundred years.
A stylish giallo built on a Germanic family legend: every hundred years a Red Queen returns to kill seven victims. When bodies start appearing around two sisters who share the cursed bloodline, the film plays the supernatural and the rational against each other with real elegance.
Emilio Miraglia directs it with a strong gothic atmosphere unusual for the cycle, and Barbara Bouchet is excellent. It is one of the more mysterious gialli, with a resolution that mostly holds together.
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The cycle in depth
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