Monthly Archives: May 2017

When Gothic Meets Giallo: Emilio P. Miraglia’s The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave and The Red Queen Kills Seven Times

Posted on May 7, 2017 by Budd Wilkins

“Throughout the 1960s and into the mid-1970s, two very different kinds of films dominated the Italian horror genre, each accompanied by their own distinctive iconographies. The gothic style is frequently associated with the remote past, cobweb-strewn castles, and ancestral curses, … Continue reading →

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Ophelia (Claude Chabrol, 1963)

Posted on May 3, 2017 by Budd Wilkins

“Claude Chabrol’s ironic and elegiac take on Shakespeare’s Hamlet makes its Region A Blu-ray debut with a gorgeous transfer and little else.” Read the review over at Slant Magazine.

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Caltiki, the Immortal Monster (Riccardo Freda and Mario Bava, 1959)

Posted on May 1, 2017 by Budd Wilkins

“Italian maestros of the macabre Riccardo Freda and Mario Bava team up for a curious (and sometimes unwieldy) fusion of sci-fi and gothic horror elements.” Read the review on Slant Magazine.

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