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Written by James M. Tate / 3/27/2025 / No comments / barbara bouchet , barbara magnolfi , body-count , emilio miraglia , giallo , horror , marina malfatti , marino mas , mirella d'angelo , pia giancaro , seventies , sybil danning

BARBARA BOUCHET STARS IN 'THE RED QUEEN KILLS SEVEN TIMES'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeMdmv_RwD2n3cUP_iOVdE8gOP6iBubdzg9Bb91H60CdmI9SRoU7jdIvSiPRlL8UyyNycEP5Xm5HRCkladVa5Zm3dQnxIBP8SJRmolv-tXcl6kPvrBC7QhF4KuDmpaRpOKZXNa4HpaU_E6KOQ35aSJFM8-W8NaQ3aklHQh8C76-yK5ztmCOTvu4FTufno_/s1274/Screen%20Shot%202025-03-27%20at%2010.19.35%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="732" data-original-width="1274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeMdmv_RwD2n3cUP_iOVdE8gOP6iBubdzg9Bb91H60CdmI9SRoU7jdIvSiPRlL8UyyNycEP5Xm5HRCkladVa5Zm3dQnxIBP8SJRmolv-tXcl6kPvrBC7QhF4KuDmpaRpOKZXNa4HpaU_E6KOQ35aSJFM8-W8NaQ3aklHQh8C76-yK5ztmCOTvu4FTufno_/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-03-27%20at%2010.19.35%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: THE RED QUEEN KILLS SEVEN TIMES Year: 1972 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>Italian giallo director Emilio Miraglia created the gothic thriller THE RED QUEEN KILLS SEVEN TIMES where the title anticipates the body-count horror aspect of sporadic victims surrounded by insanely gorgeous Barbara Bouchet as troubled rich girl Kitty Wildenbrück...She's the affable blonde of a bullying brunette sister only seen in the youthful prologue... traipsing around a castle while their passive father watches the bad daughter insanely shredding the good daughter's cherished doll...

barbara bouchet, barbara magnolfi, body-count, emilio miraglia, giallo, horror, marina malfatti, marino mas, mirella d'angelo, pia giancaro, seventies, sybil danning

BARBARA BOUCHET STARS IN 'THE RED QUEEN KILLS SEVEN TIMES'

Title: THE RED QUEEN KILLS SEVEN TIMES Year: 1972 Rating: **** Italian giallo director Emilio Miraglia created the gothic thriller THE RED Q...

ERIC PORTER & ANGHARAD REES IN HAMMER'S 'HANDS OF THE RIPPER'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO__VF_ZKqOIsDJRswzLylcX5e5VYnvX65x51sDDcASH6iMFAvEExaJZ-pGQTq2KW0IJm_jnFEHsNmf41wugVXMbDlo0WI42LJoLBQ3dVsYJdNzL0UTzuyOfWAGIzL93E0srtg2zebxwYzHV_VS8uaz1tiA7k_bJVnsKxsuKdSYNusJPFSHgzwXdwH3Zcs/s1334/1%202%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="634" data-original-width="1334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO__VF_ZKqOIsDJRswzLylcX5e5VYnvX65x51sDDcASH6iMFAvEExaJZ-pGQTq2KW0IJm_jnFEHsNmf41wugVXMbDlo0WI42LJoLBQ3dVsYJdNzL0UTzuyOfWAGIzL93E0srtg2zebxwYzHV_VS8uaz1tiA7k_bJVnsKxsuKdSYNusJPFSHgzwXdwH3Zcs/s16000/1%202%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: HANDS OF THE RIPPER Year: 1971 Rating: ****1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>In 1971, Hammer Films managed to get two films centering not really on Jack the Ripper himself, but his legacy: in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2025/01/hammerhyde.html">DR. JEKYLL AND SISTER HYDE</a>, the Robert Louis Stevenson-based antagonists slay like Jack in the fog-shrouded England, while HANDS OF THE RIPPER only opens with Jack murdering his wife, witnessed by young daughter Anna, who would (after being raised by an abusive charlatan) grow into the titular RIPPER... But not intentionally, since all the killings occur during hypnotic spells after a psychologist... played by stern-faced character-actor Eric Porter, bringing a more cerebral, stage-like sophistication in the absence of legendary regulars Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee... adopts the teenage Anna played by Angharad Rees, who's both girl-next-door-lovely (with a touch of Tuesday Weld) and intensely-enigmatic...

angharad rees, april wilding, body-count, derek godfrey, eric porter, hammer films, horror, jane merrow, katya wyeth, lynda baron, seventies

ERIC PORTER & ANGHARAD REES IN HAMMER'S 'HANDS OF THE RIPPER'

Title: HANDS OF THE RIPPER Year: 1971 Rating: ****1/2 In 1971, Hammer Films managed to get two films centering not really on Jack the Ripper...

DARGIO ARGENTO PRESENTS LAMBERTO BAVA'S HORROR 'DEMONS'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuFdgAtl9103dSi-7bYUn0fsJtpIyiUi8C6dJV8BI0CqTcddRBVD0qJ2-fDuooEdk9N4FzB94YEO2_SG8kMefJzQEnPVvZ2PuA_exbaU7VbvAsmYcVaV952pS1lbVRNT5SI2GH0SsbL9caA_ULfxMAsMOmFh-K_Op6onuCVDFFt1kllWIqJr1Vz8B42ZT-/s1998/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-25%20at%2011.25.04%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1998" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuFdgAtl9103dSi-7bYUn0fsJtpIyiUi8C6dJV8BI0CqTcddRBVD0qJ2-fDuooEdk9N4FzB94YEO2_SG8kMefJzQEnPVvZ2PuA_exbaU7VbvAsmYcVaV952pS1lbVRNT5SI2GH0SsbL9caA_ULfxMAsMOmFh-K_Op6onuCVDFFt1kllWIqJr1Vz8B42ZT-/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-25%20at%2011.25.04%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: DEMONS from DEMONI Year: 1985 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>It's a shame when, after thirty-minutes, when an audience watching a violent slasher-horror picture begin dying inside the theater... practically right alongside the movie playing on the screen... one of the bloody victims tells the frenzied and confused group, who were beginning to figure out this premise on their own, "It's not the movie, it's the theater..."Because producer Dargio Argento's DEMONS directed by fellow Italian genre-auteur Lamberto Bava goes from this highly creative meta premise into a fight-or-die DAWN OF THE DEAD retread, inside a theater instead of a mall... including a resiliently cool black dude leader...

action, bettina ciampolini, bobby rhodes, body-count, dario argento, horror, italian, lamberto bava, natasha hovey, nicoletta elmi, urbano barberini, zombie

DARGIO ARGENTO PRESENTS LAMBERTO BAVA'S HORROR 'DEMONS'

Title: DEMONS from DEMONI Year: 1985 Rating: ***1/2 It's a shame when, after thirty-minutes, when an audience watching a violent slasher...

CUSHING/LEE RETURN IN HAMMER'S 'THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMLj6wsNMvmOObbLjC4P1KaZdU3v2CbQeM-op0_xy4s3Mb3q43cx0jF2nTEZFQBsv-B6e8JP_ZhOczoF6rX7TyWZECWL0K9xfd4zx6SK9nLVMXj8UHrjMlNPUIG6xlNrgrCcBEWEgiocPjuRC-8EzogmKi1fuRXzfHmKIsEnyY3Hw-8IJA3y4UB9HQJO5J/s1984/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-03%20at%207.56.07%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1048" data-original-width="1984" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMLj6wsNMvmOObbLjC4P1KaZdU3v2CbQeM-op0_xy4s3Mb3q43cx0jF2nTEZFQBsv-B6e8JP_ZhOczoF6rX7TyWZECWL0K9xfd4zx6SK9nLVMXj8UHrjMlNPUIG6xlNrgrCcBEWEgiocPjuRC-8EzogmKi1fuRXzfHmKIsEnyY3Hw-8IJA3y4UB9HQJO5J/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-03%20at%207.56.07%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Christopher Lee & Peter Cushing in THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>Hammer's THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA shouldn't be considered Christopher Lee's seventh Dracula but his 2nd... after <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/12/drac72.html">DRACULA A. D. 1972</a>, which brought the famous vampire from the signature Victorian-era into the 20th Century including hippies, nightclubs, night parties and one important seance... But that was then... and now, two years later, there's a reclusive billionaire inside a spooky corporate building shot in murky wide angle lenses... actually looking more antique Gothic than Dracula's awakening church from 1972...

body-count, christopher lee, dracula, franchise, freddie jones, hammer films, joanna lumley, michael coles, peter cushing, thriller, vampire, william franklyn

CUSHING/LEE RETURN IN HAMMER'S 'THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA'

Christopher Lee & Peter Cushing in THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2 Hammer's THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA shou...

SUZANNA LEIGH, FRANK FINLAY & KATY WILD IN 'THE DEADLY BEES'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3KseZvfl9WasU8X7zzi6A6sfzN3FXe7EG9Aulx0JK9t6O1YB_jv36NX4LuZAkW40AgbidnlBx-D-MVNxi_xZwV8y2rgsr4hKn2WvLF-HmBkQWt9JVlBU19ne-KdJcktIa0ErnrMofYD1ed1MKG_MZSklAvb3t9KTC_f0HhBMN06ywdO_12ryU9HJNHS-x/s1952/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-25%20at%204.53.48%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1130" data-original-width="1952" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3KseZvfl9WasU8X7zzi6A6sfzN3FXe7EG9Aulx0JK9t6O1YB_jv36NX4LuZAkW40AgbidnlBx-D-MVNxi_xZwV8y2rgsr4hKn2WvLF-HmBkQWt9JVlBU19ne-KdJcktIa0ErnrMofYD1ed1MKG_MZSklAvb3t9KTC_f0HhBMN06ywdO_12ryU9HJNHS-x/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-25%20at%204.53.48%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Suzanna Leigh in THE DEADLY BEES Year: 1966 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>By the time British redhead Katy Wild (reunited with director Freddie Francis after THE EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN) attempts running frantically away from a horde of DEADLY BEES raised and kept by initially subtle antagonist Frank Finlay, lead starlet Suzanna Leigh... as a burnt-out pop star on sabbatical in the rural farmhouse next door... has spent most of the movie figuring out who instead of what, making DEADLY more a slow-burn mystery than the kind of violent body-count thriller that many other killer-insect vehicles would progress into... With a cast also including handsome cad Guy Doleman, whose house Leigh's staying in, and barkeeper (and Hammer regular) Michael Ripper, whose daughter is played by Wild and, working as a maid for Doleman... and as much as dad worries... she's got no chance against Finlay's impending (and vengeful) killer bug army...