The Night Evelyn Came out of the GraveYear: 1971 Director: Emilio Miraglia Written by: Massimo Felisatti, Fabio Pittorru, Emilio Miraglia Threat: Psychopath Weapon of Choice: Snake Based upon: none Color/B&W/3D: Color Language: English (dubbed from Italian) Country of Origin: Italy IMDb page: |
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The tyranist's thoughts
I love that title. It's bad and Rish would give it a Skull, but it speaks to me (Hey,
it speaks to me too. I love the title, and the tagline: "The worms are waiting." --Rish).
The movie behind it didn't do much for me though.
Somewhere in the English countryside, a noble is picking up red-headed hookers and
killing them in honor of his late wife. That all ends when he meets a new red-headed
lady and marries her. But his past is still haunting him. And people are still dying.
This has to be part of the Italian Giallo movement. It's the only place it could possibly
fit. Unfortunately, it is not nearly good enough to be compared with some of the masters
of that particular sub-genre.
The acting and dialogue are pretty typical of the period, but the film feels low-budget
and hastily made. The plot makes sense part of the time, and doesn't make any sense
at all the rest of the time. The fact that it also has the stately pace of the Giallo without
any of the actual suspense or execution of potentially terrifying scenes makes it hard to
pay much attention to.
I'm sure this has cult status somewhere, but I didn't care for it at all. I found it dull and
confusing and ultimately unfulfilling. Perhaps you'll have better luck.
Posted: February 20, 2006
Total Skulls: 11
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| Sequel setup | ||
| Rips off earlier film | ||
| Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie | ||
| Future celebrity appears | ||
| Former celebrity appears | ||
| Bad title | ||
| Bad premise | ||
| Bad acting | ||
| Bad dialogue | ||
| Bad execution |  |
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| MTV Editing | ||
| OTS | |
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| Girl unnecessarily gets naked | |
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| Wanton sex | |
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| Death associated with sex | ||
| Unfulfilled promise of nudity | ||
| Characters forget about threat | ||
| Secluded location | |
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| Power is cut | ||
| Phone lines are cut | ||
| Someone investigates a strange noise | |
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| Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door | ||
| Camera is the killer | ||
| Victims cower in front of a window/door | ||
| Victim locks self in with killer | ||
| Victim running from killer inexplicably falls | ||
| Toilet stall scene | ||
| Shower/bath scene | ||
| Car stalls or won't start | ||
| Cat jumps out | ||
| Fake scare | ||
| Laughable scare | ||
| Stupid discovery of corpse | ||
| Dream sequence | ||
| Hallucination/Vision | |
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| No one believes only witness | ||
| Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth | ||
| Warning goes unheeded | ||
| Music detracts from scene | ||
| Death in first five minutes | ||
| x years before/later | ||
| Flashback sequence | |
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| Dark and stormy night | ||
| Killer doesn't stay dead | ||
| Killer wears a mask | ||
| Killer is in closet | ||
| Killer is in car with victim | ||
| Villain is more sympathetic than heroes | ||
| Unscary villain/monster | ||
| Beheading | ||
| Blood fountain | ||
| Blood spatters - camera, wall, etc. | ||
| Poor death effect | ||
| Excessive gore | ||
| No one dies at all | ||
| Virgin survives | ||
| Geek/Nerd survives | ||
| Little kid lamely survives | ||
| Dog/Pet miraculously survives | ||
| Unresolved subplots | |
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| "It was all a dream" ending | ||
| Unbelievably happy ending | ||
| Unbelievably crappy ending | ||
| What the hell? | |
