La notte che Evelyn uscì dalla tomba (1971)

User Rating:

5.1/10   

Director:

Emilio Miraglia

Writers:

Fabio Pittorru (story) &
Massimo Felisatti (story) ...

Release Date:

18 August 1971 (Italy)

Genre:

Drama | Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

The worms are waiting.

Plot:

A wealthy pervert lures beautiful young women to his castle so he can have his way with them.

Plot Keywords:

Castle | Pervert | Nudity | Bondage | Sadist

Cast

Anthony Steffen	...	Lord Alan Cunningham
Marina Malfatti	...	Gladys Cunningham
Erika Blanc	...	Susie
Giacomo Rossi-Stuart	...	Dr. Richard Timberlane
Enzo Tarascio	...	George Harriman (as Rod Murdock)
Umberto Raho	...	Farley
Roberto Maldera	...	Albert
Joan C. Davis	...	Aunt Agatha
Ettore Bevilacqua
Maria Teresa Tofano	...	Polly
Brizio Montinaro
Paola Natale

Also Known As:

The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave
The Night She Arose from the Tomb
The Night That Evelyn Left the Tomb

Runtime:

103 min | Italy:88 min (cut version)

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:R | USA:R

Company:

Phoenix Cinematografica

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: The story is set in England, and the cars keep to the left-hand side of the road, but they are all left-hand drive cars.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Dusk to Dawn Drive-In Trash-o-Rama Show Vol. 3 (1996) (V)

So-so Italian horror

Handsome and wealthy Alan Cunningham has just been released from an asylum. He was put there after a breakdown he had when his unfaithful wife Evelyn died. He now picks up women who look like Evelyn, takes them to his remote castle, tortures them and kills them. But he seems cured later on when he marries Gladys--who looks just like Evelyn. But then people are being killed, Alan starts seeing Evelyn's ghost, her tomb is found empty and he starts to slowly go mad...

The synopsis may sound strange but so is the movie! There's plenty of things wrong with this: the plot refuses to make sense, the acting is pretty bad, the dubbing is awful and the film is relatively bloodless. Also there's an astounding amount of misogyny in this (even for a horror film). It's actually quite dull--until the end. There's a double twist ending which caught me by surprise and it gets very bloody too. Still, that's only the last 15 minutes or so--the preceding 80 minutes are hard to slog through. There is also a fair amount of nudity (all female of course) and the main actors are attractive--but that's not enough to recommend this. Completists of Italian horror cinema but enjoy this. Also most of the DVD versions of this are in terrible shape--mine was incorrectly letterboxed, had faded color and nonstop jumps and scratches. One sequence even started with the top of the image on the bottom of the screen! So--beware. I give it a 6--mostly for the ending.